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Jacki Weaver: ‘Michael Powell said I was headed for great things. He didn’t tell me it would take 50 years’ – The Guardian
Silver Linings Playbook and Animal Kingdom catapulted her to global stardom after a career stretching back to the 70s. She talks about her ‘renegade life’, her spat with Anjelica Huston and her latest role as a woman running a drag club
Jacki Weaver is thinking about how her life has changed. To find yourself in bed with Robert De Niro is an extraordinary thing for a woman of my age, she says, with a distinctive giggle. In 2010, she was living in Sydney and approaching pensionable age; she had a memoir under her belt and an acting career that had thrived since the 70s, but without making her famous far beyond home. A decade on, she has twice been nominated for an Oscar and is one of Hollywoods most prolific character actors, ha…
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