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In a wide-ranging conversation with EW about the film and her career read more here , McDormand addressed the unsentimental nature of her work, especially in recent years. In that four-hour TV marvel , she played a seemingly cold-to-the-touch suicidal woman in small town Maine. The Emmy-winning performance is a master class in making an unsympathetic character into someone still utterly dynamic. And that was an ongoing debate between all of us working on it. McDormand found herself having very similar conversations with McDonagh while working on Three Billboards. So why be afraid of that?

McDormand was a struggling New York stage actress when she landed her first film role in this low-budget thriller, which was also the debut film from the filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. An inventive and entertaining film noir riff set in Texas, McDormand first seems to be a femme fatale, but is eventually revealed to be a tough and plucky heroine. She navigates the turn gracefully with a performance grounded in small-town weariness and desperation, and she wisely eschews the self-conscious winking that so often accompanies neo-noir acting. Her portrayal of Mrs.

Most actresses stop disrobing onscreen when they hit 40 or get too successful to have it demanded of them. But Oscar winner Frances McDormand , 45,. In "Canyon," McDormand's free-spirited rock producer flashes her breasts at the boys in the band and frolics nude in a swimming pool with her younger musician boyfriend Alessandro Nivola and her son's girlfriend Kate Beckinsale. Then McDormand showed up for the audition "looking pretty much like she does in the film," in vintage concert T-shirt and tousled rock-chick hair, Cholodenko says. McDormand's "Laurel Canyon" character makes perpetual adolescence and errant parenting seem cool, probably because she's played by Frances McDormand.

W inners of the Oscar for best actress can pretty much choose what to do next. But, when Frances McDormand won in — for her performance as an eccentric but unfoolable Minnesota cop in Fargo — she made choices that surprised Hollywood. The best thing about the award, she told interviewers, was that she was now famous enough to be cast in a Sesame Street video giving tips to children who got lost. She specifically asked the Gate not to mention her Oscar in the programme. Those decisions suggest an equivocal relationship with movie stardom that may be tested again.