June Squibb on Collider Ladies Night for Thelma.
The Big Picture ✕ Remove Ads June Squibb is a legend. She’s a legend with a slew of stage experience, dozens and dozens of film and TV credits to her name, and an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Nebraska. However, it wasn’t until just now, in her 90s, that she finally scored her first lead role in a film, Josh Margolin’s feature directorial debut, Thelma. An absurdity, in my opinion. But, that’s not how Squibb looks at it.
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✕ Remove Ads “I did Alice and then Scent of a Woman and then Age of Innocence , and all at once, people kept saying to me in New York, ‘Well, you're a screen actress.’ I was like, ‘What?’ I didn't know what this meant, really. After those three films, there was a shift. Then I think I had a big shift after About Schmidt , and that was a sort of legitimacy in the film industry that I hadn't had before. All at once, I could sense this.
“The big thing, of course, is you don't audition anymore , and you knew that. That's kind of wonderful. I was 84, I guess, when the Oscar nomination came along, and I had been auditioning my whole life. I auditioned for years in New York, and then even out here I auditioned some. To be told you'll never audition — and I didn't know this; this came as a perk to me because I didn't know this — it was wonderful.
“I read that script — I had never met . I got it through Beanie Feldstein. I knew Beanie wouldn't lead me astray , and she she told me, this was a family friend’s and to read the script, and I just had to do it. To me, a script is like a bible, really. This is what I study. This is what I decide on, if I'm gonna do something or not.
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