Three years ago, when Olivia Colman made her first oscar for "Darling", she excitedly took to the stage and delivered the most adorable and funny acceptance speech in history:
"It's so funny, I actually took an Oscar!"
"Are my kids squatting at home live?" See what this is! If you're not looking... Count you guys out... There won't be a next such good thing! ”
"I used to be a cleaner, I was cute for that job, and I was dreaming of a day like this."
"Lady Gaga, BUY!"
That night, Olivia Colman beat Glenn Close, who was nominated for seven Oscars, beat Lady Gaga, who sang well in "The Birth of a Star", and won the little golden man, as a person who did not even go to the public relations dinner, it was not easy to win the award in the end.
The moment the winner was announced,
Colman got a passionate kiss from her husband and Sister Stone
In "The Favourite", she plays the uncertain queen, with poor makeup and bloated dress, ridiculous and pathetic, and stages various emotional entanglements with the maid and duchess:
Love and hate are intertwined in the play, and left and right hugs outside the play
Director Yorgos Lanthimos had the foresight to allow Colman to play a leading role on the mainstream hollywood screen - before that, people mostly had the impression of her as a "golden supporting role" and a "comedian", looking familiar but not remembering the name.
In London Life, she is the repulsive stepmother:
The pregnant intelligence officer in Night Manager (because she was actually pregnant at the time):
The only female police officer in the town police station in "Hot-Blooded Detective":
The reason why she can play the main role in "Darling" is also because she and Yorgos first had a cooperation in "Lobster", established mutual understanding and trust, and then Yorgos will first think of letting Colman play this role, and she must be.
And Colman also saw it as the only chance — she was 45 years old, had three children, had a double chin, wasn't slim, spoke a thick British accent, and wasn't in Hollywood's "screen standards" at all, so she jokingly said "There's no next good thing about this kind of thing" when she won the award.
But what she didn't expect was that "Darling" opened a bigger door in order to sweep dozens of awards for best actress, entered more people's eyes, various roles came to the door, the schedule became suddenly busy (ten years ago she even worried that she had no drama to play), and she became the cover girl of VOGUE:
"I've always used clothes as a kind of mask.
I've found that they can make you feel more powerful. ”
Her path to "queen" on the screen did not stop either – she began playing Queen Elizabeth II in the third season of the British drama "The Crown":
The queen played by Claire Foy in the first two seasons was well received, and the pressure naturally came to Colman, who could not copy Claire Foy's version, and her life was far from that of the "nobility" - she lived in an old house in a quiet neighborhood in south London, liked to make desserts, although not social, but the neighborhood was close, she would take the children to picnic on the weekends, and in the eyes of the neighbors she had always been a hard-working wife & Mom (as a result one day she suddenly went from an enthusiastic big sister in the block to a star on the red carpet)... She is very grounded, unlike the high -ranking "queen", the only thing in common is that they both love tea (the British love it) and both have dogs.
But directors and actors who have worked with always say that colman enters the role very quickly, even as simple as toggling a switch, rachel Weisz said of her: "Acting is about the speed of your thinking and the speed of your imagination, and she has an incredibly fast thinking. Sister Stone said Colman could "go from a funny, joking woman to a battered, desperate woman at once." ”
There's no definitive answer to where Colman's talent came from, but it may have something to do with her life experiences. When she was young, she cleaned houses in the city, attended lectures, participated in some student plays, and accidentally entered the Cambridge University Footlight Drama Club during an audition, met Ed Sinclair, who later became her husband, began to pursue love, and finally let the other party fall in love with her, and then Colman continued to clean and some odd jobs, Ed Sinclair graduated from Cambridge, and still Colman carried the main source of income for the family.
Colman has always maintained a sense of anger about the big and small things in life, whether they are happy or not, and age and experience have made her more intelligent and confident, "Over the years, my weight has increased, and my body has changed: I have three children. If someone doesn't like me because my ass is too big, they can get out of the way. Because I'm actually a pretty good person. ”
Asked if he was surprised by how much he had changed in the past 20 years, Colman replied, "That's great, isn't it?" My husband and I do sometimes lament that we are still together, that we have a family, that I am still working. I think it's best to be grateful for what's going on in the moment, and when kids don't do well on exams or other things, I want them to know that it doesn't matter in the long run because life is big, big, and I just want them to stay optimistic and happy and always see the potential good in life. ”
This year, Colman is very likely to receive another Oscar nomination - she began the road to "sweeping awards" again with "Daughter in the Shadows", a woman strangled by the identity of "mother", she is no longer a great woman who is selfless, loving and worthy of praise, but an "incompetent" mother who abandoned her daughter for the so-called "self", such a subversive and challenging role, through Colman's delicate acting skills, makes people have ripples and thoughts in their hearts.
We always see women on the screen who become mothers and naturally have the strength to shoulder the burden of new life, but is anyone unsure that they can become a qualified mother? Is there a time when the lesser side is revealed? For example, scolding children for emotional loss, deliberately answering the phone uninterruptedly, ignoring the needs of children to do some work that may not be so important... And after making a mistake, you start to fall into infinite self-blame? Such an inner portrayal may be more striking than simply singing praises. Regarding women's struggles, guilt, freedom, confusion, I believe that everyone will have their own answers when they see it.
Coincidentally, in this year's awards season, Colman once again "played against Gaga", Colman had "Daughter in the Shadows", Gaga had "Gucci Family", and both of them were nominated for Best Actress in the Drama Category at the Golden Globe Awards. Winning or losing is not important, we look forward to seeing different types of female actors appreciating and cherishing each other as last time, and they deserve to have a bigger and more tolerant stage to show their own legends.
Edit: Hezi
Fine Arts: Roland