![]() But my mother was quite strong and my sister had a huge influence on me. I had five brothers and one sister, so it was heavily a male-influenced household. What was your own family like growing up Conyers, Georgia? The series, like Alan’s breakout drama Six Feet Under, is a deep dive into the dynamics of a complex family. You can walk down the street and be scorned merely for being a woman. We’ve all at some point experienced name-calling, being ostracized and excluded. We have a lot of issues with division right now in our country, feeling alienated from each other. Are love and generosity enough to overcome those challenges? Yes. Are there going to be disappointments? Yes. Can someone raise a child from another country? Yes. I think Alan openly grapples with that question. What do you think the show has to say about race and identity in America in 2018? In Here and Now you portray Audrey, a hippieish former therapist who is the mother of four grown children, each of whom is a different race. ![]() We played brother and sister once in a movie called Miss Firecracker. And working with Tim Robbins again is a joy. It’s also incredible to be around so many diverse, highly skilled actors. He sets an unbelievable stage and then develops it - unfolds, digs, and pulls back more layers. What made you want to do TV again with Here and Now, especially coming off a critical hit film?Ī lot of it was about working with Alan Ball. It’s been more than ten years since your debut in TNT’s Saving Grace, a passion project that ended after only three seasons. I never even had a phone conversation with her because I just wanted to make her up, which is what actors normally do. The most heavily fictionalized part in the film was the mother character. Gordon’s mother, whom you portray in the movie? ĭid you ever meet co-screenwriter Emily V. It was also fun to have a close encounter with straight-up comedy again. I wanted to do it because it was such an incredible, unusual story. A few weeks later, they offered me The Big Sick. ![]() He sat in the class and I met him afterwards. Yes, I went back to Carnegie to teach an acting class and Judd was touring the campus with his daughter. You’ve been promoting The Big Sick for more than a year, but I only recently learned that you and Judd Apatow first met at your alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University? “I don’t want anyone to ever wonder who I am,” she says. The four-time Oscar nominee and winner (for her lead role in Jane Campion’s stunning 1993 film The Piano) and six-time Emmy nominee sat down with Vulture in Los Angeles last November for a live SAG-AFTRA Conversations event, and again in February, to discuss her return to TV in Alan Ball’s new HBO drama Here and Now, how the seeds of her love affair with acting were planted while growing up in Georgia, and why she never wants her face to be a source of mystery. From her breakout role as a baby-crazy cop in the Coen Brothers’ sweetly absurd Raising Arizona to, more than 30 years later, her Independent Spirit–nominated turn as a mother fighting for her comatose daughter in The Big Sick, Hunter, 59, has defied the gloomy cliché that compelling roles for female actors only evaporate over time. Holly Hunter talks about her film and TV career with such a casual, I-can’t-believe-I’m-still-working attitude, that you almost forget just how damn good she is. ![]()
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