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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<\/a>\u2019s horror-thriller \u201cWeapons<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The veteran actress returns to the Oscar spotlight four decades after her inaugural nomination for \u201cTwice in a Lifetime<\/a>\u201d (1985), now recognized in the best supporting actress category for playing Gladys<\/a>, an elderly relative whose late-film arrival in \u201cWeapons<\/a>\u201d detonates the movie\u2019s final act \u2014 and has left audiences shaken ever since.<\/p>\n \u201cI always defer to the writers,\u201d Madigan says. \u201cIt\u2019s got to be on the page. It\u2019s got to be the script.\u201d From the moment she read Cregger\u2019s screenplay, she recognized Gladys instantly: \u201cI just fell in love with Aunt Gladys. From the first time she spoke, I just knew who she was.\u201d<\/p>\n That instinct drove everything,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amy Madigan didn\u2019t expect to be here. 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\u2019s horror-thriller \u201cWeapons.\u201d The veteran actress returns to the Oscar spotlight four decades after her inaugural nomination for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2291767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Amy-Madigan-on-Falling-in-Love-With-Aunt-Gladys-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291769,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291767\/revisions\/2291769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}