Annette Bening

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We're joined by the talented and captivating Annette Bening! She stars alongside Bill Nighy in the new film "Hope Gap." In it, she plays a woman dealing with the wreckage after being blindsided by the sudden end of her thirty year marriage. She'll talk to us about her approach to playing English characters, how she tapped into her "Hope Gap" character to work on her own issues with confrontation avoidance and how motherhood offered a welcome respite to the sometimes alienating life of show business. Plus, we ask her about playing a baddie on "Miami Vice!"

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:08.6	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:21.7	HopeGap is a movie about divorce.
0:24.4	Only it's not really the movie that comes to mind when I say movie about divorce.
0:29.4	The marriage in question has been going on for nearly three decades.
0:33.4	The husband and wife are both of retirement age.
0:37.0	They have an adult son who's come back home to visit them.
0:40.2	Edward, the husband, is played by the English actor Bill Nye.
0:44.6	He's distant, little checked out and preoccupied.
0:48.3	His wife Grace is played by my guest Annette Benning.
0:51.8	He leaves her early on and the film focuses on the wreckage that is left behind.
0:58.2	Benning's character is blindsided.
1:00.7	She had a plan for her life and this wasn't it.
1:03.8	And that's sort of the film's focus.
1:05.5	Can she move on?
1:07.0	What does her new future look like?
1:09.0	It's an intense character study.
1:11.1	And part of what makes it so compelling is that Benning is so in tune with her character.
1:16.7	In HopeGap, you're more than just a witness to her pain, you feel it.
1:21.0	Here's a pivotal scene from the movie.
1:23.1	Edward tells Grace he's going to leave her.
1:26.4	I know this is all a shock,
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