Jacki Weaver
Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth "Jacki" Weaver, AOis an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdomand Silver Linings Playbook, both of which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth25 May 1947
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
mean-girls thinking media
I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.
home thinking pieces
No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.
winning awards world
I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
growing-up son australia
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
years rolling balls
David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.
song play yesterday
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
eye soul acting
The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
choices facts choosy
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
growing-up listening ears
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
drama school play
One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.
twilight years australia
Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.
naughty positive-life laughing
Emily [Blunt] is such a giggler, she has such a positive life force about her and she's so giggly in a naughty sort of schoolgirl way that it kind of brings out the worst in you, you just love making her laugh. And also Nick Stoller has one of the best laughs. It's so infectious and whenever he laughs at something you do, it's like giving us a reward.
daughter mother thinking
Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.
laughing want
I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.