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Our favorite quotes from this year's Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress nominees
LOS ANGELES — Come January 10, there will be five outstanding actresses who will vie for the Golden Globe award for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture category.
Will former Golden Globe winner Angela Bassett who portrayed Queen Ramonda in the Ryan Coogler-helmed superhero film, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" bag another trophy?
Or will it be another former Golden Globe winner, Jamie Lee Curtis, who played IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre and other versions of Deirdre in alternate universes in "Everything Everywhere All At Once?"
Will the talented English actress Carey Mulligan finally bag a Golden Globe win this time with her performance as American journalist Megan Twohey in the biographical drama "She Said?"
Or will it be one of the first timer Golden Globe nominees—Irish actress Kerry Condon in the black tragicomedy "The Banshees of Inisherin" or Filipina thespian Dolly de Leon of the Palme d'Or winner satirical black comedy "Triangle of Sadness"—who will bring home the award?
Below are some of our favorite quotes from these amazing actresses:
Angela Bassett
When asked at Disney's D23 event by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige how it was returning to Wakanda, Bassett replied, "Oh, it was just an amazing experience. This is like the calm before the amazing storm. It was a great experience with the entire cast, tremendous crew. It takes a lot of magic behind to make this come together. And of course, our leader, our spiritual leader, Ryan (Coogler), and our heart, with Chadwick (Boseman) who was with us at every step of the way. He paved; he showed us the way. He did it and he had to. He had to leave his level of excellence."
Jamie Lee Curtis
At the New York Comic Con, actress Drew Barrymore, who was moderating the event, asked Curtis what she learned from her famous actor parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Curtis replied, "I remember my mom early on. I think she understood that I was insecure. I was one of those people where if we met and I was 19, I'd look at you and be like, I'd go home and go buy a pink suit and pink glasses and maybe a big broach and try that because I didn't know who I was. I think my mom recognized that. And she said to me at one point, just be yourself.
As for my dad, he said two things to me that pertain to show business, which make me laugh. One thing you're not going to really understand unless you're a film student. We were in a car, we pulled up to a stoplight and I was sitting there, and he was driving, and I remember he turned to me, and he said, never let them shoot you with anything less than a 50.
He was trying to explain that anything less than a 50-millimeter lens was going to distort your face. That a 35-millimeter lens or a 28 or whatever is going to not make you look so good. Now I have a face the size of a door wedge. So, the truth of the matter is a wider lens actually works because I have a little skinny face. But weirdly enough, Tony Curtis, for some reason felt like he needed to share that with me.
The other thing that was crucial, and it's advice I give to everybody alive who signs their name to something. He said, "Remember that whatever you sign, there are two little words in the legal description that says in perpetuity which means forever. That what you're about to give them by presenting yourself in whatever it is they're filming, that it's theirs forever. And that he said, use that as something to be reminded about."
Carey Mulligan
At the New York Film Festival, Mulligan was asked about her decision and experience in bringing The New York Times journalist Megan Twohey to the screen while Zoe Kazan was asked about portraying journalist Jodi Kantor.
Mulligan replied, "It's a daunting prospect to play anyone real, and then to play such real heroes of our society. So, I was terrified the whole time, and I still am. But we were so lucky because we immediately got to know these women. They operate at the highest level in what they do, and it's just remarkable and fascinating to learn about that. It was just something I didn't know anything about. And then to spend time with them and have play dates and get to know each other and then to feel like we sort of had a friendship as well. But there was an understanding of the film and the story that we were trying to tell. So, I just felt privileged from start to finish."
Kerry Condon
In a press conference at the Century Studios Lot for "The Banshees of Inisherin," Condon was asked about her personal experience on doing the movie, whether it felt therapeutic.
She answered, "I did when we arrived at Inishmore (an island on the west coast of Ireland), which is the place where we shot all the scenes in the house, because that felt really spiritual to me. Just the nature there was really spiritual and all the cute animals, the little calf, Charlie, and all those little animals and Jenny and stuff. And in the evenings, I would kind of almost feel that the Moos, my dog, that died. And I know you're going, "Geez, her dog." But she was the love of my life, my dog was the love of my life. She was my baby. She was everything to me. So anyways, I could feel that presence. And so, there was a spiritual aspect."
Dolly de Leon
In our exclusive interview with De Leon at the Cannes Film Festival, we asked her in what ways did her character Abigail in "Triangle of Sadness" resonate with her.
She said, "I identify with Abigail a lot. We have a lot of similarities, although there are a lot of differences, but I do identify with her. Her sense of power resonates with me because I like to believe that I'm a powerful woman, even if most of the time I feel weak. That's the similarity that Abigail and I have.
"Most of the time she feels weak, powerless and helpless because of circumstances in her life and how she has to do things in order to survive the world. I feel the same way. I'm a mother. I have four children and the struggle is real with me having to go out, work and film, leaving my kids at home. I've also experienced being away from home for a long period of time. I know how it feels to be Abigail in that sense of being away from home, away from your loved ones, living in a strange land, speaking a language that is not your own. Sometimes I would find myself translating my own lines.
"I find myself interpreting or translating my own lines because I forget that I need to speak in English so that everyone will understand me. In many ways, we also share the same frustration with the everyday things that happen in life, in being a woman, in gender equality.
"It's really not easy being a woman these days. But we are getting there. We are on the road to gender equality. However, in my generation, I don't really feel it yet 100 percent. With Abigail, maybe she's experienced discrimination because of her race, because of the culture that she comes from. I didn't feel that personally because we worked with a great cast and a great crew. They were wonderful people. The Swedish crew, the Greek crew, the actors, they were all warm, wonderful people.
"I felt very welcome, but that's because the film industry, that's a very nourishing and nurturing atmosphere. Everybody is there to collaborate and help each other and support each other. I have yet to work in a film set where you're being discriminated upon.
"Maybe when I was younger, I experienced how people discriminate against you because you're not known. You're not famous. You're playing a big part. When we would come to the set of a film or a shoot, they put us in a tent with all the other stars. I would always feel so small, insignificant and insecure because here are these big stars and some of them are pretty snooty. I'm not going to lie. Some of them are snooty. They have this air with them going like, 'I know. I'm all that. I'm the s---.' They are standoffish. They do not know how to say hello or hi. So definitely, I can relate with Abigail in many ways."
—MGP, GMA Integrated News
