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Dec.5 - Dec.12, 2004 |
Bridging the age gap in p.s.
Oscar-nominated actress Laura Linney stars in Dylan Kidd's romantic comedy
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2004-11-14
One of the cinema's most solid and versatile actresses for decades, Laura Linney didn't get serious critical recognition until she starred in Kenneth Lonergan's 2000 quiet family drama You Can Count on Me.
Despite having appeared in acclaimed features Primal Fear, The Truman Show and The House Mirth, as well as the mini-series Tales of the City, it took that movie to garner Linney the best actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, as well as nominations for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.
Working hard ever since, this year Linney appears in no less than two critically acclaimed pictures, including Dylan Kidd's (Roger Dodger) romantic drama p.s. (The other is Kinsey, about the famous sexologist.)
Based on a book by Helen Schulman, p.s. centres on college admissions officer Louise (Linney) who is lonely and unhappy, even though she carries on a relationship with her ex-husband Peter (Gabriel Byrne). Suddenly her life gets a jolt when she reads the name F. Scott Feinstadt on a student's application. That's the name of her first love who died when they were teenagers. After meeting with F. Scott (Topher Grace), she finds the young man not only resembles her dead boyfriend, but also paints like him. Despite F. Scott's impudence, Louise seduces the young man and a passionate, and highly credible, romance blossoms. But Louise is carrying around too much emotional baggage, which isn't lightened by Peter (who confesses to be a sex addict), her former drug-addict brother (Paul Rudd), and her best friend Missy (Marcia Gay Harden).
Tandem talked to Laura Linney, 40, when she was in Toronto.
It's so rare today to find a woman over 30 having sex on screen. Don't you find that there's a cut-off age in Hollywood?
"I don't. I don't think there is a cut-off. I think people want there to be a cut-off. I don't think there is a cut-off. I think a lot of it is perpetuated by a relentless desire to hang to that for some reason. You know, it's not that rare."
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