June Squibb Was a Hilarious Scene-Stealer in This Oscar-Nominated Performance

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The Big Picture Actress June Squibb was 84 years old when she landed her breakout Hollywood role in Nebraska. In a film primarily about a father and son relationship, she gives a standout performance as family matriarch Kate Grant, the unfiltered, foul-mouthed wife of Bruce Dern’s dementia-suffering alcoholic character, Woody Grant.

Nebraska An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. Squibb eventually wanted to do more dramatic work, so she retired from musical theater. She didn’t make her film debut until she was 60, in Woody Allen’s Alice. She uprooted herself from New York to Los Angeles, and the work came flooding in. Her many television appearances include GhostWhisperer, JudgingAmy, and the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

“She sent an audition tape presenting this woman in two different ways,” explains Payne. “One as the harridan which you see, which is funny, and another in a more frank and down-to-earth way, which was not. June knew to say I can do it this way and I can do it that way.” After casting was complete, Payne asked Squibb, Dern, and Forte to meet in the actual state of Nebraska, to get to know each other and develop their chemistry before filming started.

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