The actor landed her first Oscar nomination in her 80s. Now in her 90s, the 'Thelma' star is enjoying the attention from her first leading role.
It makes sense that the script for writer-director Josh Margolin’s feature debut, “Thelma,” ended up in June Squibb’s hands not through her agent but via her 'The Humans' co-star Beanie Feldstein, who thought Squibb would be perfect for the role of a sweet-natured nonagenarian who, swindled out of $10,000 by a phone scammer, decides to get her money back.
What was the trick to convincing producers that you could handle the mobility scooter that Thelma takes off in? They brought the scooter here with the stunt coordinator, and we went out on a circular driveway. They all thought I was going to kill myself. The stunt coordinator was running along beside me the whole time to make sure that if I fell, he could catch me. But I proved to them I didn’t need a stunt double. In some scenes, your co-star Richard Roundtree rides on the back.
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