And she’s just so fucking smart in her acting, and in her perception of people, and what she does.
If you look at American Beauty, Being Julia, The Kids Are All Right, she can be super naturalistic, she can be really very grand, and my mom had a grandness to her, she was born in the 20s, grew up in the 30s, I felt like I rediscovered her, by studying 30s films, I felt like she must have got her humor from that ether.
I was trying to write a character that was really complicated, and had paradox built into her, and that was the high goal.
You kind of get that sense in all of her characters, and it was very much like my mum.