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Article: The Arts: Fake breasts and Fargo Frances McDormand won this year's Best Actress Oscar. She talks to Willem Dafoe (above), who stars in `The English Patient', winner of nine Oscars
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- March 30, 1997
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I FIRST saw Frances McDormand in Blood Simple - an eye-opening
film and a "Where did they get that woman?" performance. Next I saw
her in Raising Arizona (a film I had been eager to see, since I had
badly wanted the Nicolas Cage role). Finally, I met her on the set
of Mississippi Burning, where she played a battered Southern
housewife and I played a FBI investigator. For her performance, she
was nominated for an Academy Award.
In Mississippi, Fran struck me as down-to-earth, direct and
funny. Very serious and great at what she does, but I swear
sometimes when I'd be with her I'd almost forget that we were
actors. That's why it was strange to do this interview: I feel we
have talked each ...