Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman says her role as PC Doris Thatcher in Edgar Wright's HotFuzz was a career 'highlight.' “I mean she was like, you know, so much fun. She was dirty ... That was a highlight of fun.”
Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman says that playing PC Doris Thatcher in Edgar Wright’s 2007 hit action-comedy Hot Fuzz was a career highlight. Though the role wasn’t an especially big one, Colman brought her own inimitable style to it. The end result provided audiences with a rare opportunity to see the star in the earlier stages of her career, at a time when she was more often associated with comedic projects than dramatic fare.
For many fans, Colman will forever be best known as Sophie, the love interest of the idiosyncratic Mark Corrigan in the hit British comedy series Peep Show. Colman’s casting as Sophie occurred four years before Hot Fuzz was released, and it was during this period that her ability as an actor to roll with strange and unorthodox situations became clear.
“Yeah, I mean she was like, you know, so much fun. She was dirty, um, yeah, she was fun. Nothing like a bit of girl on girl. Yeah, but it’s also quite nice to lay everyone to rest and move on and do different things, but that was a highlight of fun, yeah.” Colman briefly switched to the character’s voice during her comments, and giggled throughout her recollections about Thatcher. For those not familiar with Hot Fuzz, the “girl on girl” comment might seem a bit out of place, but fans will know it as a Thatcher quote in the film’s third act, when she knocks box-cutter wielding supermarket employee Tina out with a wet floor sign.
It seems that Colman’s career continues to go from strength to strength and at present, the acclaim of her most recent film, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter, is giving rise to the possibility of another Oscar-winning year for the actress. Equipped with an uncanny ability to traverse genres and deliver convincing performances regardless of the film or character she plays, Colman’s time on Hot Fuzz is more than just a role she took on her way to pre-eminent star status.
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