{"id":60063,"date":"2018-03-05T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60063"},"modified":"2018-03-05T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:12:09","slug":"allison-janney-wins-supporting-actress-oscar-for-i-tonya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/allison-janney-wins-supporting-actress-oscar-for-i-tonya.html","title":{"rendered":"Allison Janney wins supporting actress Oscar for ‘I, Tonya’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allison Janney wins supporting actress Oscar for ‘I, Tonya’<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Allison Janney even thanked the bird.<\/span><\/p>\n

After winning the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for her turn as the hard-as-nails, chain-smoking mother of Tonya Harding in \u201cI, Tonya,\u201d Janney began her speech by joking that she \u201cdid it all by myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After the raucous laughs died down, she said there could be \u201cnothing further from the truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Janney then credited her co-stars, the others who worked on the film, her family, and yes, the bird that nearly stole the show from its perch on Janney\u2019s shoulder in the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ear-nibbling parakeet named Little Man \u201celevated my work,\u201d Janney said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 58-year-old Janney was considered all but a lock for her performance in \u201cI, Tonya,\u201d a dark comedy that follows Tonya Harding\u2019s life leading up to the 1994 attack of rival Nancy Kerrigan. Janney won nearly every major award she\u2019d been nominated for leading up to the Oscars, including a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild award, a Golden Globe and a Critics\u2019 Choice prize.<\/span><\/p>\n

Janney plays LaVona Golden based mostly on watching documentary footage of Harding\u2019s acerbic mother. The role saw the statuesque, glamorous Janney wearing a ratty fur coat, an oxygen mask and oversized glasses, much of it while Little Man sat on her shoulder, sometimes pecking her ear \u2014 details based on an actual interview with Golden.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the bird heard me and said, \u2018Oh yeah?\u2019 Let\u2019s see if you can ignore me when I\u2019m putting my head in your ear,’\u201d Janney told The Associated Press last month. \u201cI thought this is exactly the kind of humor that is perfect for this movie. I kind of loved it; as much as it was irritating me, it was also fueling me as I was trying to get my side of the story across.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of Janney\u2019s charming acceptance speech, the actress turned serious.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is for Hal,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re always in my heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Janney\u2019s brother, Henry \u201cHal\u201d Janney, committed suicide in 2011 after battling addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

After her speech, Janney returned to the theater where she was immediately swamped during the next commercial break by people wanting to take selfies with her.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Janney arrived backstage to an interview room to talk with reporters, she promptly removed her shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then she quickly put them back on to show everyone that \u201cusually the dress looks like this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She threw them off again. \u201cMy feet are bleeding,\u201d she deadpanned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked if her day-to-day life might change now that she\u2019s an Oscar winner, Janney said she had to go right back to work at 10 a.m. Monday for a table read for her CBS sitcom \u201cMom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am so happy that I have a job to go to after something like this because it can go to your head,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m going to have a big crash-down after this so I\u2019m happy that I have \u2018Mom\u2019 and the people at \u2018Mom\u2019 to lift me up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Janney said on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d that she had never been to the Oscars, even though she had been invited before. She didn\u2019t want to go until she was nominated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Backstage, Janney said she \u201cdidn\u2019t dare to dream of things like this because I didn\u2019t want to be disappointed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think at a certain point I had given up thinking of this happening for me because I wasn\u2019t getting the kinds of roles in film that would give me attention like this,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily for Janney, her good friend Steven Rogers wrote LaVona Golden\u2019s role specifically for Janney, \u201cto show what I could do,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will never be able to repay him,\u201d she said. \u201cI think I\u2019m going to get him a Rolex.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Oscar, Janney beat out Laurie Metcalf (\u201cLady Bird\u201d), Lesley Manville (\u201cPhantom Thread\u201d), Octavia Spencer (\u201cThe Shape of Water\u201d) and Mary J. Blige (\u201cMudbound\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/wtop.com\/movies\/2018\/03\/allison-janney-wins-supporting-actress-oscar-for-i-tonya\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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