(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The Academy Award-winning actress is in Venice with the four-part HBO miniseries in which she plays an acerbic schoolteacher in a small Maine town full of troubled souls.
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Frances McDormand says her latest project Olive Kitteridge is unusual — its central character is a woman over 40.
The Academy Award-winning actress is in Venice with the four-part HBO miniseries in which she plays an acerbic schoolteacher in a small Maine town full of troubled souls.
“It’s kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age” McDormand said.
The 57-year-old who won an Oscar for Fargo received a career prize from the Italian festival on Monday before a red-carpet screening of the show.
Based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge is directed by Lisa Cholodenko whose big-screen features include Laurel Canyon and The Kids Are All Right.
It’s due to air on HBO in November but McDormand said the creators thought of it more as a four-hour movie than a TV show.
“Ninety minutes isn’t enough for a female story” she said. “You can skim the surface in 90 minutes but you can’t really get to the heart of anything. Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.”
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