Patti LuPone is earning Oscar buzz for her turn as a hellish helicopter mom in Ari Aster's 'Beau Is Afraid.' USA TODAY talks to the Broadway icon.
"Honestly, when we were thinking of who could play Mona, I saw a 30-second clip of her on a red carpet and she was just terrifying, in a great way," recalls Aster, a longtime fan of LuPone's theater work."It was just clear that it was her."
"It flew out of my mouth," she says."I was actually annoyed with the interviewer for bringing that up. I should have said, 'Look at where you are! The Gay Super Bowl!' I was just so infuriated and he kept pushing me on it, so I went, 'You want the truth? Here's the truth.
"It's the best role I've ever had on camera," LuPone says. Normally,"I don't get opportunities like this as an actor. It's so far out there." "I worry about my son all the time," LuPone says."I'm not a Mona, but things become heightened when you're a parent." In her,"I saw a woman who was trying to make a man out of her kid and he was constantly failing."
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