Not in the thick of awards season, not making history with a 40-year gap between Oscar nominations, and certainly not doing it as the ferociously unforgettable Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger’s horror-thriller “Weapons.”
The veteran actress returns to the Oscar spotlight four decades after her inaugural nomination for “Twice in a Lifetime” (1985), now recognized in the best supporting actress category for playing Gladys, an elderly relative whose late-film arrival in “Weapons” detonates the movie’s final act — and has left audiences shaken ever since.
“I always defer to the writers,” Madigan says. “It’s got to be on the page. It’s got to be the script.” From the moment she read Cregger’s screenplay, she recognized Gladys instantly: “I just fell in love with Aunt Gladys. From the first time she spoke, I just knew who she was.”
That instinct drove everything,…
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