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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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CoolCarrie · 25/02/2019 11:32

I think the Jimmy McGovern series was Accused or The Street

CoolCarrie · 25/02/2019 11:33

Cross post there!

Milicentbystander72 · 25/02/2019 11:34

I've long loved Olivia Colman. I'm so pleased for her.

I think she's a wonderful actor. I've seen The Favourite and thought she was brilliant, as were her co-stars. Yes it was a weird film but the range of emotions she got in there was brilliant.

Fleabag - brilliantly vicious
Broadchurch - hugely likeable and switched on alongside David Tennant.
Flowers - just stunning in her character development from socially awkward Mother to huge pathos in her predicament with her husbands depression.
Even Peep Show!

She studied Drama at The Bristol Old Vic Drama School. Not a cheap city to live in. I can imagine she was a cleaner once, yes.

Pishogue · 25/02/2019 11:34

Frankly, I don't care if she steals sweets from babies in real life -- she's an excellent actress.

Which is what she got an Oscar for. It's not the Year 2 Kindest in the Class award.

RageAgainstTheVendingMachine · 25/02/2019 11:50

We were all bloody shocked on the Oscar all-nighter thread, thought she was a shoo-in - 1. American 2. Seven noms 3. The Wife was great performance

And she was wearing that glorious gold dress with gold cape, can you even? Felt for her, I really did.

I like Olivia Colman though - still feel for her and Robert Webb being royally fucked over in the awful film Confetti (promised they would be pixellated, get to premiere, have to sit through movie seeing themselves starkers). Woman's paid her dues. Night Mangaer was fab (she got an emmy and golden globe for that so not sure why the yanks are pretending they didn't know her previously).

Anyway, well done. Preferred her globes dress by miles though.

VanillaSugarr · 25/02/2019 11:52

About 3 or 4 years ago we went to Center Parcs just before Christmas (21 December ish) because there was a very cheap deal on. Olivia Colman was at the pool with her very little baby trying to persuade her older children to get out of the pool. They completely ignored her and she seemed so lovely. She was such a typical mum that no one else realised who she was.

JessMariano · 25/02/2019 12:16

Also Tyrannosaur. Heartbreaking film but career wise changed everything for her I think.

Yes and as a pp said, loved her in Rev.

Crowdo · 25/02/2019 12:19

I'm absolutely thrilled for her. Already watched her speech three times this morning. I'm a huge Peep Show fan. And just yesterday watched her in Fleabag, which she is just amazing in!

hellojason · 25/02/2019 12:19

Tyrannosaur was a hard watch but brilliantly acted.

Rev - that disco scene with Tom Hollander dancing in his robes!

Gunpowder · 25/02/2019 12:23

Haven’t seen The Favourite but she is one of the nicest celebs I’ve met in real life. Not fake at all.

GunpowderGelatine · 25/02/2019 12:26

I think Emma Stone's reaction says it all, and goes to show what a lovely woman Olivia must be to work with (notice she called her Emily in her speech which is Emma's real name). I think Olivia just genuinely loves to act and isn't a natural at all the pomp and "celeb" side of it. I remember reading a great interview with her years ago about how not being a "gorgeous" woman was a blessing. I think her British awkwardness makes me very likeable and I don't think she's at all fake

Redcampions · 25/02/2019 12:41

I can’t warm to her at all but always nice to see a Brit win

GunpowderGelatine · 25/02/2019 12:49

One of my favourite performances from her is the therapist in I Give It A Year screaming at her husband down the phone. She's absolutely hilarious in it!

Sophiathefortyfirst · 25/02/2019 12:55

I really like her and am thrilled she's won an Oscar! I'm from the city she grew up in and it's nice to see a local person winning something so amazing.

I also think it's nice that she made it as an actress on her own merits rather than being a famous persons daughter/granddaughter/niece.

Processedpea · 25/02/2019 12:56

She grates on me too seems to play herself in everything

Was gutted for Richard e Grant

Ribbonsonabox · 25/02/2019 12:56

Yes I totally love her! Really pleased for her. Shes in such interesting stuff as well. Love pretty much everything shes done.

M3lon · 25/02/2019 12:58

I was happy to hear this on the radio this morning - nice break from the bleakness of basically all the other news.

Processedpea · 25/02/2019 12:58

Being at Cambridge helped Wink

HoraceCope · 25/02/2019 12:58

Anyone else love her in 2012?

AlecTrevelyan006 · 25/02/2019 13:02

That's Numberwang!

LaBelleSauvage123 · 25/02/2019 13:06

I love Olivia Colman. As well as some of the productions listed here, I’ve also seen her in a musical about the murder of prostitutes - can’t remember what it was called - Something Street? Very unusual ( all the dialogue was sung) but very powerful.

DappledThings · 25/02/2019 13:07

My then colleague was in NCT with her!

E20mom · 25/02/2019 13:11

I am too. I think she's great.

JessMariano · 25/02/2019 13:14

Processed she went to the teacher training college, not the university. But then got into Footlights.

littlemeitslyn · 25/02/2019 13:25

Me too Dojo