Coleman won the 91st Academy Award for Best Actress.
Under this seemingly ordinary appearance, there is actually a delicate and kind heart, and there is more courage and firmness beyond ordinary people.
As early as the announcement of the Oscar shortlist, many people asked her how she felt, Coleman said: "I have always dreamed of getting an Oscar, but I don't want to be too excited, nor do I want to be disappointed." As the mother, wife, partner, and other identities of the child, it is very hard to do multiple jobs, so I need to always keep my reason, clip my tail and be obedient, in case I am happy and sad. ”
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She is the director's "Darling" at a glance
"Darling" director Orgus Lance moss, who had worked with Coleman as early as 2015 in "Lobster", starred as the restaurant manager who asked Colin Farrell "what animal would he become if he was single in the end", fully demonstrating the momentum of the leader and winning her the best supporting actress award at the second British Independent Film Award.
Stills from the movie "The Lobster"
So when the director decided to direct this new film like the "British royal version of "The Biography of Zhen Huan", looking for a Queen Anne who suffered from gout and oscillated between the two extreme images of fox false tiger power and self-hatred, he immediately thought: "Olivia must be my queen!" ”
"Darling" is a big drama of three women on the same stage, and the most difficult of the three to interpret is Queen Anne. Coleman accurately shows Queen Anne's majesty as a king before people, and a rebellious and mischievous manner behind people. She is often suddenly crazy like a child, she likes to sing against people all the time, she does not care about the government and politics, she does not know how to distinguish between right and wrong, and she is easily used and deceived...
Coleman played the mercurial Queen Anne in the film The Favourite.
At the same time, Coleman also deeply dissected the complex past behind the role, deducing how her past experiences and current situation affected her temperament: "She has too many sad pasts, and she must be very lonely inside, because she is in a high position, she will never know whether people are really treating you or just because you are the queen." 」 "Coleman's performance, at first glance, is unremarkable and unimpressed, but she uses the least amount of time to convey the richest amount of information, and when she sees the ending, she will definitely be the one that impresses you the most."
Still, "Darling" isn't Coleman's only appearance as "The Queen." The first was in 2012, when she starred as Queen Elizabeth in Hyde Park on Hudson's Shores, winning best supporting actress at the 15th British Independent Film Awards. In the third season of the Netflix historical drama "The Crown", which is expected to air at the end of this year, Coleman succeeded claire Foy and once again starred in the middle age of Queen Elizabeth II.
"Not cool", always not confident in their own body
If you have to give Coleman a name, it must be the Queen of Comedy in England, the best green leaf in comedy, and the pistachio in the crowd. His debut in 2000 was a comedy show, and the most common acting in the early stages of his acting career was a comedy show, and even his film debut was a comedy cartoon. However, as a girl who grew up under the traditional education system, Olivia Coleman's growth process was not as happy and smooth as she seemed.
Coleman was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England in 1974 to the son of a royal chartered surveyor and a nurse mother. In 2018, she used a show that excavated the historical deeds of celebrities' ancestors through genealogies, "Who Do You Think You Are?" And learned that his maternal ancestors came from India.
Recalling her own growth process, Coleman admitted that she had experienced a campus life that she was not good at, and also experienced an adolescence that was anorexia because of lack of confidence in her body, and postpartum depression after giving birth to her first child... "not cool", "ordinary" and "disgraceless" are the words she most often uses to describe herself.
Even today, she often encounters the low tide of the dark cloud cover, but she still said: "Overall, I am a happy teenager, I have little confidence in my body, this matter has always bothered me, and it is the same to this day, but I would like to tell my former self that you will be fine!" These troubles will pass, you will definitely be loved, do not make any rash decisions. ”
The New York Times once said of Coleman: "She's the most remarkable ordinary person you've ever met." "With a height of 1 meter 7 and mediocre facial features, she conquers the audience with her acting skills. However, she is shy by nature and often performs intuitively, and it is always difficult to express herself in every interview about "how to perform": "If I were to write a book about acting, it would be very thin. ”
He was supposed to be a primary school teacher, but chose to drop out of Cambridge
Following Coleman's original trajectory, she was supposed to learn how to become a primary school teacher at Cambridge University, but she left after only one semester. Because at the age of 16, she acted in her first stage play "Spring Wind Does Not Turn To Rain" at school, which made her fall in love with acting ever since. She starred in the play as an idealistic female teacher, making her feel that "acting is exactly what I want to do, there is nothing but it." Her mother suggested that she give herself a year to pursue her dreams, while Coleman gave herself ten years of trial and error.
After leaving school, she went to cambridge's famous amateur drama club, where she met David Mitchell, Robert Webb, who later starred in The Peep Show, and her future husband, Ed Sinclair, and said happily: "I find these people just as shy and a little strange as I am." ”
She then studied theatre at the Old Vic Theatre in Bristol, and in the four years after graduation, she took on many temporary jobs and advertising roles, married Ed Sinclair, lived in a friend's attic when they were the poorest, and even had the experience of pulling coins from the slit of the sofa to buy potatoes for dinner. Coleman works as a cleaner when she's not filming, and she doesn't have a bad impression of the job: "I clean very diligently, and I've never opened anyone else's drawer." ”
Stills from "The Night Manager"
Coleman once said that when he first met Ed Sinclair while rehearsing a play, he knew it was the person she was marrying, until the two entered the auditorium seven years later. Now that the two have three children, Coleman had just jumped into the filming of Night Manager in early 2015 when she found out she was pregnant with her third child, she had a tricky conversation with director Suzanne Bill. Luckily, the director eventually decided to tailor a role for her as "Angela Burr, a pregnant Secret Intelligence Agent of the British Secret Service". At first the director didn't seem happy, but then she said, remember the pregnant cop played by Francis McDormand in Ice Storm? And so my pregnant woman role was born. ”
Acting in "The Crown", the crew provided headphones and weather forecasts
Stills from the British drama "Small Town Doubt"
Coleman went from an obscure comedy actress to a household name in the UK, being Detective Ellie Miller in the British drama "Small Town Doubts". Launched in 2013, Coleman's quirky, gloomy and tear-jerking comedy led Coleman to play a sharp and strong female character under an unassumingly unassuming appearance, for which she won best actress in the BAFTA Awards television category.
In 2016's "Night Manager," Coleman was an intelligence officer who worked with "Jitterson" Tom Hiddleston to deal with a crime syndicate, and the show brought her back to the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries.
Miniseries Les Misérables
In the 2018 BBC adaptation of the mini-series "Les Misérables", coleman played the hotelier lady sad, depressed and spicy symbiosis, and brought her own aura as soon as she appeared. Kenneth Branagh, director of Murder on the Orient Express, described her this way: "Hidden, stable and heavy." ”
Stills from the third season of The Crown
In fact, under the appearance of joy and enthusiasm, Coleman has an extremely susceptible heart, "But whenever I hear a little happy or sad thing, my tears will fall at any time." David Tennant, who collaborated on "The Little Town Doubt", once said: "Her emotions are very outward, if she laughs, she laughs happier than anyone." To cry is to cry more sadly than anyone else. On the set of "The Crown," the crew had to give Coleman a pair of headphones to keep her in a stable mood, so that she could listen to the weather forecast or anything, as long as she couldn't hear any sad conversations, after all, elizabeth II, who she played, was known to the world for being calm and strong.
Written by Meng Tianxiang
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