And then he saw it on the screen and just burst into tears. My other half, Karim, was watching them - I try not to think too much about it, if you know what I mean. Here are excerpts from the conversation.Ĭongratulations! Were you watching the nominations?

In a phone conversation on Tuesday afternoon from London, where she is shooting the HBO limited series “The Palace,” a political satire about a year in an unraveling authoritarian regime, the British actress discussed the groundswell of support from her famous friends, what appealed to her about the role, and the performance this year by another actor that has moved her the most.

“The most exciting thing about this moment is that so many more people are going to see this film,” said Riseborough, who is known for her chameleonic work in “Birdman” and “W.E.” Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Beandrea July wrote that Riseborough “gives a deft performance” in the film, which she called a “deceptively simple yet heart-wrenching character study.” (It was Morris’s feature directorial debut.) “Andrea Riseborough, Tang Wei, Penélope Cruz, the list goes on and on and on.”Ĭritics also showered praise on the film, which has a 98 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, though it was largely passed over at awards ceremonies like the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards. “It is arbitrary considering how many extraordinary performances there have been by women, not only in this room,” she said.

“It’s about the most fully committed, emotionally deep, physically harrowing performance I’ve seen in a while,” he wrote of the actress’s performance as an alcoholic, manipulative mother in West Texas.īlanchett even used her acceptance speech at the Critics Choice Awards to give a shoutout for Riseborough’s performance. Norton (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”) wrote on Instagram that Riseborough’s portrayal “knocked me sideways.”

“Andrea should win every award there is and all the ones that haven’t been invented yet,” Paltrow captioned an Instagram photo of herself Riseborough the film’s director, Michael Morris (“Better Call Saul”) and Demi Moore on Jan.

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