To be so happy for Olivia Coleman?

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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.

I LOVE Olivia Colman, am delighted she has won!

Loved her in Peep Show, amongst many other things she has done superbly!

I thought she came across really well on Who do you think you are - very genuine.

I wasn't a huge fan of The Favourite but I can't deny that her acting was amazing.

Poor Glenn Close though - but if she had won (in my opinion) it would just have been because she has "lost" so many other times.

@HoraceCope
"Why shouldnt they buy a house in London."

The point is not that, but that they can't really have been on their bare bones as reported, if less than 12 months later they were able to buy a property in London!

If I am down to my last 20p with DH, I really am down to my last 20p!

I’ve just listened to her podcast interview with David Tennant. She is genuinely lovely in it and it’s quite insightful- it will answer a few questions raised by PP on this thread

I love her - she has such a beautiful smile, is a brilliant actress and seems an all-round lovely person.

I think Glenn Close is over-rated, personally.

And so is Meryl Streep.

Rev is brilliant, could never understand why it never achieved a higher profile.

It was - the character of the dean was apparently based on our then Bishop (who was, and probably still is, a self-obsessed fanny) - one of the writers was a priest who had worked under him.

She was only fleetingly at Cambridge, trained in Bristol. Not seen the Favourite but she strikes me as an all round good egg, very versatile and a great representative of Britain. She seemed genuinely shocked too.

I was binge watching Rev the other day

Couldn't get the subtitles off series 2

Most annoying

I did love Tom Hollander in it as well...and the bishop was awesome and adoha and colin and nigel and mick and everyone!!!!

But tom and Olivia were best

Lovely to see a Brit win.
Wish I could take to her, but whenever I hear her voice and see her face, I just want to slap it

@BlueJeansNiceTop

The point is not that, but that they can't really have been on their bare bones as reported, if less than 12 months later they were able to buy a property in London!

Eh, how do you come to that conclusion?

2008 I was on job seekers in a council house coppering up for rice and making joint meals with my equally skint neighbour (a meal we called 'slop dop', basically curry)...

2009 I'd bought that house in cash outright off the council.

What happened in that 12 months? Just two things..

1/ I found I had a skill I could use to be self employed
2/My mother died leaving me sufficient capital to buy the house and set up the business.

It happens, peoples circumstances can change dramatically in a very short time.

she went to the teacher training college, not the university Well I did a PGCE at Homerton and it was definitely 'part of the university'

Congratulations to her. Over the last few years Olivia Colman has played a range of roles very well. The film was a travesty of historical facts (no Prime Minister existed then for a start) but was very funny.

There was a scene in The Favourite which was a close up of her face. No words at all. The emotion she conveyed was incredible, she deserved the Oscar for that scene alone
Totally agree

I thought she was brilliant in The Favourite, the close ups where she sat and watched Rachel Weisz dance, or talked about her lost children with Emma Stone, were so subtle but I felt like I could read her perfectly. And I really believed Queen Anne was in constant pain, every movement looked like such a strain on her. She’s quite a subtle actress, a lot unsaid, I really admire her work.
I also liked that film contained very complex, multi-layered women. I read somewhere that it was thought to be misogynistic as the women were portrayed badly – but that’s wrong of course, women should be allowed to be flawed, messy and cruel on screen just as men are.

'I read somewhere that it was thought to be misogynistic as the women were portrayed badly – but that’s wrong of course, women should be allowed to be flawed, messy and cruel on screen just as men are.'

Completely agree. Such refreshing female characters and brilliant performances

I like Olivia Colman and at first I thought her acceptance speeches were endearing but now it’s becoming an act and quite fake, the Oscar speech irritated me to my surprise.

Olivia Coleman’s husband got a £30k inheritance which they used as a deposit on a house

I’ve got a wee crush on Tom Hollander, especially in Rev.

Honestly, I've just watched it again and it's so frustrating. Speak woman, stop shoving your hand to your mouth, making childish sounds, and fakey silly joke ad lib bits. Oh god it's so crinegworthy.
She knew it was coming.

I don’t think for a minute she thought it was coming, she was clearly gobsmacked, but I agree it was cringey.

She knew more than anyone else then because everyone else though Glenn Close had it in the bag.

Nah. She knew.

No, she didn't. The winners don't know in advance.