"It's a full-time gig being an Oscar nominee, what with the luncheons and fittings, the interviews and photocalls. It's a wonder anyone ever gets any actual work done. I'm tired, says Amy Madigan, grinning crookedly on a video call. It's noon in Los Angeles but the living room curtains behind her are shut tight. I worry she may have just pulled an all-nighter. The last time Madigan was nominated was in 1985."
"Madigan crops up first teasingly, then electrifyingly as the nightmarish Aunt Gladys, the scariest child-catcher this side of Robert Helpmann in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Feeding off the young and conjuring adults into zombies, Gladys has round specs, clownish makeup and a brutal orange wig and Cregger's film has her tottering around town talking 19 to the dozen. The woman is laughable and pitiable right up until the moment when she's not."
Amy Madigan, age 75, is shortlisted for best supporting actress for her role as Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger's segmented small-town horror film Weapons. She describes awards season as a lengthy, exhausting cycle of luncheons, fittings, interviews and photocalls, contrasting it with the shorter experience around her last nomination in 1985. Aunt Gladys is portrayed as a nightmarish child-catcher who feeds off children and turns adults into zombies, marked by round spectacles, clownish makeup and a brutal orange wig. Madigan's performance shifts between laughable, pitiable and terrifying. She currently lives in a rental shared with husband Ed Harris and faces delays rebuilding her house.
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