Leslie won the lottery twice: once in the plot of the independent tape To Leslie and another through the actress who plays her character, British Andrea Riseborough, who celebrates her first Oscar nomination for best actressdespite not having carried out a media campaign for her role, like her competitors.
Users on Twitter celebrated Tuesday, January 24, the day the official nominees for the Academy Awards were announced, who an actress of the independent genre has been included among the main candidatesin a kind of recognition that would mark the new direction of future editions of the Oscars. Could a really good performance, even though not very widespread, achieve notoriety from now on?
“Andrea’s nomination changes the game, it really does”said movie buff Brian Rowe, host of the Film at Fifty podcast. “That last minute bath of a little one indie films that maybe he’s only been considered for the Independent Spirit Awards and now he’s getting an Oscar nomination is unbelievable. I don’t remember it happening before,” she wrote.
The tape, which marks the feature film debut of director and television producer Michael Morrishad a limited release in select theaters in the United States and it barely grossed $25,000 at the box office.
In To Leslie (Momentum Pictures), Riseborough stars as a single mother struggling to support her son (Owen Teague) when he suddenly wins the lottery and the possibility of achieving a better lifestyle. But just six years later, the money ran out and Leslie is alone and now steeped in alcoholism, while running away from the problems he wants to leave behind.
With her charm wearing thin and nowhere to go, Leslie will be forced to return home with her old friends Nancy and Dutch. (Allison Janney, Stephen Root), though she can’t help but feel unwelcome. His moment to be reborn will come when Sweeney (Marc Maron), the owner of a small hotel, risks giving him a job.. Along the way, Leslie must also face the consequences of their actions, while trying to build a better future for her and her son.
“It’s so unreal. There is a part of me that still refuses to accept that this has happened.”, commented the British actress who, although she is not recognized in the Hollywood sphere, It does have the endorsement of celebrities, such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Edward Nortonwho have already shown their support for his candidacy.
“Andrea should win all the awards there are and all the ones that haven’t been invented yet”, Paltrow published a week ago; while Norton wrote that Andrea’s performance is the most committed, emotionally deep and physically harrowing you’ve seen in a long time.
riseborough rose to fame in British films, such as Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) and Never Let Me Go (2010), and in 2011 he was part of the cast of the film W.E., written and directed by Madonna. Also, she got a supporting role in Nocturnal Animals (2016)directed by Tom Ford, and in birdman (2014). The actress also received praise for her work in streaming and television with the leading role in the episode of Black Mirror (Netflix) titled “Crocodile,” and in the 2020 crime drama ZeroZeroZero (First Video).
The actress is currently in London. recording for HBO Max his next miniseries, The Palace.
The film, which it was recorded quickly, in 19 days, it was worth to Andrea also a nomination for the next Independent Spirit Awardswhich will take place next Saturday, March 4.
“A character like Leslie, once he’s inside you, you can’t get him off.”, he said in a recent interview for The New York Times. “All of us have been in Leslie’s orbit, o we feel like we identify too much with her and the way she lets down those she loves over and over again”.
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