For God’s sake, Oscars, let Britain’s ‘Favourite’–Olivia Colman– win (opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: Kate Maltby is a broadcaster and columnist in the United Kingdom on issues of culture and politics, and a theater critic for The Guardian. You’ll have a good sense of why if you watch her nominated turn in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” as a miserable, miscarriage-riven Queen Anne, shifting from one intense relationship, with Rachel Weisz’s Sarah Churchill, who dominates her with a possessive love, to Emma Stone’s Abigail Hill, who cynically flatters her. In the cult sitcom “Peep Show,” Colman played Sophie, first a love interest and then a frequent target for mockery by the two show’s male leads, Mark and Jeremy. British audiences laughed at Sophie’s awfulness throughout “Peep Show,” but when Mark tried to leave her on their wedding day, our hearts bled for her and we despised him. Colman’s career bloomed later than some: she was just shy of 30 when she took on her supporting role in “Peep Show.” That may be why we Brits still like to root for her as an underdog, although nowadays she’s clearly not: last year the Radio Times named her the most powerful person in British TV.
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Olivia Colman Oscars speech in full after The Favourite star wins Best Actress
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Close but it’s Olivia Colman for best actress at Oscars
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Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman wins Best Actress for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite
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Baftas 2019: Olivia Colman’s stylist explains making the actor feel ‘empowered’ with regal gown
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