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To be so happy for Olivia Coleman?

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Ohfuxx · 25/02/2019 09:22

I don't give 2 shiney shits about the Oscars, who wins, what they wear. It's just not something I've ever had an interest in.

Having said that I saw Olivia Coleman won best Lead Actress and watched the accompanying video.

I'm so pleased for her. It obviously means a lot to her and she is one of Britain's greatest actresses who has really done a great slog to get where she is and I've enjoyed so many of her shows and films.

Congratulations Olivia.

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Vivaldi1678 · 25/02/2019 11:01

Very well deserved, a brilliant performance as Queen Anne!

NunoGoncalves · 25/02/2019 11:03

There is something really nice about it. I used to love Green Wing, and I never would have imagined back in those days that she'd one day be an Oscar winner!

JRMisOdious · 25/02/2019 11:04

coolcarrie

She is great in Rev with Tom Hollander”

Rev is brilliant, could never understand why it never achieved a higher profile. Know this is about her, but he’s superb in Rev too.

Didn’t realise being a cleaner and middle class was illegal.
I took that as it took her a while to get where she is now and it wasn’t always plain sailing, not that she was a poor cleaner. Doesn’t matter how middle class you are, as an actor you’re generally not qualified for a lot of other jobs, hence waitressing, cleaning etc. when you’re out of work.

TatianaLarina · 25/02/2019 11:05

I find her slightly annoying personally.

Thought Glenn Close should have won.

CoachBombay · 25/02/2019 11:05

I loved the film The Favourite, I thought Olivia was amazing in it. She took us through a rollercoaster of emotions.

So glad she won! Very much deserved.

Hobbesmanc · 25/02/2019 11:05

She's bloody amazing! She's been in some of the best TV shows ever often in a supporting role or as part of an ensemble cast and she not only shines herself as an actress but she has that rare quality of sharing the screen with her fellow performer. Loved her in Rev, totally brilliant in a rare unsympathetic role in Fleabag, try to catch her in the wonderful but little seen Beautiful People.

MaggieAndHopey · 25/02/2019 11:06

Another Rev fan here. It's suprisingly little known! I wish there could be a fourth series.

PhoebePatel89 · 25/02/2019 11:06

She's come along way from Numberwang.

greendale17 · 25/02/2019 11:07

I like her but do think Glenn Close deserves to win it

StarbucksSmarterSister · 25/02/2019 11:08

I don't dislike Colman, but am not a huge fan. Thought she was good in Les Mis. She just seems to be flavour of the month for the last couple of years.

I feel so much for Glenn Close and simply cannot understand why she's never won, she is such a great actress.

LaurieFairyCake · 25/02/2019 11:09

Yeah, she bought and shared a potato with her DH with her last 20p

I've been there but DH and I had a reduced pack of co-op doughnuts with our last 21p about 16 years ago

I'm 100% telling that story if I ever make it Grin

Loads of middle class people have been poor when they're starting out

Pishogue · 25/02/2019 11:10

Although my favourite is her performance in Rev...especially the 5 a side football episode

Agreed I haven't seen many of her high-profile roles, apart from The Night Manager,and haven't actually seen The Favourite yet but it was in Rev that I first thought 'Who is this actress?'

I do also think Glenn Close is brilliant. And Melissa McCarthy.

StarbucksSmarterSister · 25/02/2019 11:11

Let's not forget that apparently Princess Diana once worked as a cleaner - before her marriage, obviously Grin

BlueJeansNiceTop · 25/02/2019 11:13

She's talked about it before in interviews - looking down the back of the sofa for a few pennies so she and her husband could buy something for dinner etc.

Yes, and within 12 months of this anecdote they had bought a house in London...

Bowsbows · 25/02/2019 11:13

DSHathaway with regard to your comment "I was privately educated including 2 years at public school and then went to a Russell Group uni and on to a very well regarded pgce course... and then I changed track completely and worked in retail for four years barely turning a penny. Would you like a 5p bag for those assumptions and judgements of yours?"

I think the difference is choice here. You were given the tools from a private education and public school, if you chose to change track from a PGCE then that was a choice, but even if you didn't have that choice and had to leave the course due to other circumstances then you had the benefit of the years of private education and 2 years at public school behind you and obviously did well enough from that to get the qualifications needed to go to a great Uni. Leaving a higher level education or career path to choose to "start from the bottom up" in an unrelated industry or "follow a dream" isn't the same as people who never had anything like that to choose to leave in the first place.

HoraceCope · 25/02/2019 11:15

Why shouldnt they buy a house in London.
She has worked hard.
she has been in so much, not only been in but been Great in
She hasnt just risen up over night.

JessMariano · 25/02/2019 11:16

I am so pleased too!

I started out seeing her in Green Wing and Mitchell & Webb etc, so to see her career trajectory has been amazing.

Lottapianos · 25/02/2019 11:17

'I remember seeing Olivia in an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series 'Moving On' some time ago. '

I remember this too Muffin. It was heart stopping. She does pain and heartbreak like no other actor I can think of

I love her, I think she's really fab and seems very genuine and she's a truly marvellous actor. I could definitely live without the raspberry blowing though

MinisterforCheekyFuckery · 25/02/2019 11:21

How can people who have never met Olivia Colman think she is fake?

Some people find it very difficult to be happy for others success, even people they've never met. So they'd rather believe she's "fake" even though it's perfectly plausible that she is actually a nice person who has achieved success as a result of hard work and genuine talent.

AbsentmindedWoman · 25/02/2019 11:24

I'm delighted for her, she's very talented!

I don't think the cleaner remark was 'poorface'. Virtually anyone who has ever tried to get even a toehold in any creative career, let alone a fucking Oscar, will understand what was meant by her reference to that time in her life before the acting work started to flow for her.

derxa · 25/02/2019 11:25

it's perfectly plausible that she is actually a nice person who has achieved success as a result of hard work and genuine talent. Of course I can believe that but I can also believe that her speech is a piece of actressy fluff. None of it's that important.

MuseumofInnocence · 25/02/2019 11:26

I remember seeing Olivia in an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series 'Moving On' some time ago. I'd never seen her before and I remember one scene at the end where she was arguing with another woman on a doorstep. Her acting was so good, I've never forgotten it.

Does anyone know what programme this was? I looked her up on imbd, and she was never in Moving On, so it must have been something else. I'd be interested to see it.

Ringdonna · 25/02/2019 11:26

Glenn Close should have won.

JessMariano · 25/02/2019 11:28

Museum it might be Accused by Jimmy McGovern?

MuseumofInnocence · 25/02/2019 11:31

it might be Accused by Jimmy McGovern?

Bingo, that's it.