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Into the Badlands
Widow ftw!

Quote:Britain's Beecham joins A-list with Cannes best actress win
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AFPMay 25, 2019, 9:40 PM GMT




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Beecham has spent most of her career in supporting roles (AFP Photo/Valery HACHE)

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Beecham caught the acting bug at her posh British school (AFP Photo/Laurent EMMANUEL)




Cannes (France) (AFP) - Britain's Emily Beecham has been catapulted into the movie big time by winning best actress at the Cannes film festival for playing an enigmatic scientist in "Little Joe".
Beecham, who has spent most of her career in supporting roles, was a surprise choice for the award for her performance as a botanist working on a flower that gives off a scent so ambrosial it makes people euphoric just to sniff it.
Indeed she admitted that she was so shocked that "I forgot to pack my toothbrush" when she received a call, after she'd left Cannes, telling her to come back and pick up the prize.


But while Beecham's rise has hardly been meteoric, the 35-year-old has been marked out as a talent to watch for a decade, winning best actress awards at both the Edinburgh and London Independent film festivals for one of her first films, "The Calling", in 2009.
Her big break came two years ago playing what Variety called "one of the more unpleasant characters in recent memory", a misanthropic young woman who witnesses a stabbing in Peter Mackie Burns' arthouse gem, "Daphne".
That helped consolidate the reputation the Manchester-born actress had won for a stream of British television roles including in the award-winning series "The Unforgiven", and the even more acclaimed "The Village", where she played opposite Maxine Peake and John Simm in the gritty historical rural drama.
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Doors really began to open up for her in the United States, her mother's homeland, after she landed a small part in the Coen brothers 2016 sword and sandals send-up, "Hail, Caesar!"
By then she had landed the role of The Widow in the US martial arts action series, "Into the Badland".
Although her father is a pilot, she caught the acting bug at her school, the elite Hurtwood House in Surrey, which bills itself as "the most exciting school in England".
It is also the alma mater of the "Mary Poppins" star Emily Blunt and Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan.
Beecham told AFP that she jumped at the chance to work with the highly-rated "Little Joe" director Jessica Hausner.
"She's one of the only female directors I've worked with so far. She's extraordinary," Beecham said of the Austrian, who was vying for Cannes top prize, the Palme d'Or.
"But I'm noticing more scripts and things come through with female directors attached. It's brilliant."
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The actress, who played opposite fellow Briton and "Mary Poppins" star Ben Whishaw and New Zealander Kerry Fox in the movie, said she was "profoundly inspired" by the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and the naturalist Jane Goodall as she researched her role.
"One thing they both talked about -- Jane Goodall discussed it specifically -- is that her relationship with her family interfered with her research. She kind of had to put (her family) on the back burner and put the chimpanzees in the forefront."
Beecham said that she tried to work the pain of that into her character, a senior researcher in a biotech firm in the UK of the near future.
Hausner said she wanted to explore how "crazy" becomes a label used to keep women down.
"I was always fascinated by the films about crazy women. I felt that male perspective and I thought 'Yeah, but what's so crazy about them?'" she said.
"The 'craziness' of women is actually the very interesting point about them because I think it's also about being sensitive and intelligent."
Beecham told AFP after she won the prize that she was drawn to Hausner after seeing her previous film "Lourdes", set in the French town where some Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared.
"So I loved her work already. Ben Whishaw was attached and I read the script and it was unquestionably a great project to be involved in and I really wanted to do it," she said.
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I <3 The Widder
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107 pages of some crazy props. I wonder if the Widow's stilettos are in there somewhere. Not that I have the cash to spend on those, but if there was a prop from that show that I'd want as a memento...
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Are they even your size?
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they should be tighter.

hella tighter.
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Since we have Netflix again (thanks Wira http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=5509) I thought I'd revisit the Badlands. It's holding up quite well for me. The overall sanguineous aesthetic really works - the lush color schemes of the costumes contrast so well with all the blood. I watched the first few eps of S1 and then skipped to S2 because that was Dublin so it has much fonder memories for me. Plus Nick Frost really took the show to another level.

And my lord...the Widow is haaaawwwwwwwt. I can't believe I've had the honor of having my arm around the Widow in costume in her sanctuary, as well as Emily in a gorgeous evening gown, plus sat next to her at a posh dinner in Dublin. It's the closest and the mostest I've ever been with one of my celebrity crushes. Emily is so hawt as the Widow. So hawt.
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Nice.

So many questions. Who did the edit? Why does Daniel's shot look better than your shot. I mean know why but.... Get some lights.

I'm glad they had the behind the scenes footage with the camera on the wire because that's the stuff I need to see. I want to know how the trick is done.
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Den of Geek did the edit of course. As for the BTS, that was part of a GoPro presentation. 

And having spent time with Daniel, he always looks better. He's a spokesman for L'Oreal. How can any of us even hold a candle to that?

The video interview was 50 mins. Den of Geek has another follow-up piece with this and I assume they'll do another vid. I've got that, plus 4 other pieces being deliberated upon with them right now.
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Excellent.

I meant technically he looked better than you rather that physically.

And technically, he does look better than you. Then me. All of Doom. Probably the majority of North America.
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I knew what you meant. I don’t have the technical chops for vids yet. Not sure if I’ll get there. I was spoiled by having a studio and a vid crew at TC.

This was actually shot in my old bedroom at my mom’s off my laptop. My mom’s house is packed with junk everywhere. I needed to find a neutral wall and had to clear a space that would be out of the range of her TV at full volume. When I was a teen, I painted my bedroom walls dark blue (I wanted black but my parents drew the line there). I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor so as not to show my wall speaker shelf mounted above (that speaker is long gone and now it just has some old medals draped over it).
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I was wondering how you could shoot any video at your mom's place, considering the max-volume TV.  It seemed risky to just tell her you need a quiet period for a specific period of time.  No idea what the layout is like, but I guess your old room is soundproof enough.
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Actually my old room has a sound tiled ceiling. It came that way when we moved in the the early 70s, which probably means it's made of asbestos. And my old room is literally on the other side of the house on the 2nd story.
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