Defying age and expectations, 94-year-old June Squibb is Hollywood’s latest action star
LA TimesOn a bright June afternoon in the San Fernando Valley, the summer’s unlikeliest action hero sits down at a small dining table in the tidy ground-floor apartment that she shares with two cats. “It’s so funny to hear that because, my God, all these years I just have never dealt with anything like that.” Richard Roundtree and June Squibb in the movie “Thelma.” When she first read Margolin’s script, Squibb connected immediately with Thelma’s determination to confront those who wronged her. “I think he’s right,” says Squibb, who loves police procedural shows and has several bookshelves filled with Scandinavian crime novels. You can look back on it and think, ‘Well, what is it?’ But even now, I’m very proud that next to my name it says ‘Oscar nominee.’ ” “I think things are changing,” says June Squibb, above, in a “Thelma” scene with Fred Hechinger. “We go to Gelson’s and there’s almost always somebody in there that stops by and says something to me,” says Squibb, who has an assistant but otherwise still lives independently.
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