Frances McDormand - Actress, Producer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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EPISODE 99 - FRANCES MCDORMAND - Actress, Producer

Team Deakins gets the chance to catch up with a long-time friend, actress, and producer Frances McDormand (NOMADLAND, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI, FARGO). It’s a great conversation that hits lots of topics! Fran shares with us the difference for her between acting in theater and in film, what her approach is to acting, and how she learned and added to her craft over the years. She has lots of stories of her experience on the film Blood Simple which was an early experience with a lot of learning and where she met Joel Coen, her long-time partner. We also talk about working with less structure, improv, and playing a femme fatale. Fran shares her experiences on Nomadland, Olive Kitteridge, Mississippi Burning, and The Man Who Wasn’t there. We touch on how she chooses her roles and how she likes to mix things up with “palette cleansers”, playing a supporting role as well as how she feels she is a partner with the camera operator. And more and more! A great discussion with the always interesting and fun Fran! Don’t miss it!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:11.7	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:18.3	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the
0:23.6	audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod at RogerDekens.com.
0:36.4	This episode of the Team Deakin's podcast supported by Company 3, the world's leading post-production
0:43.1	group dedicated to collaborating with both emerging and established filmmakers.
0:48.0	Today we're pleased to be joined by a friend and a wonderful actor. Her credit list is long and
0:56.1	varied. A few titles are Olive Kitteridge, three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Moonrise Kingdom,
1:03.7	Fargo, something Scott to give, the man who wasn't there and the soon-to-be released No Man Land.
1:10.0	We're happy to welcome Fran McDormott with us today. Thank you Fran for doing this.
1:14.5	Thank you Fran. Hi guys. Hi. We'd love to start and ask how you got to where you are today. Was
1:22.4	it something you always wanted to do or did you take another path and then discover acting? What's
1:27.5	your story? Okay, well yes, I it all began when I was 14. I was living in a small town in Pennsylvania
1:39.1	called Manesson Steel Mill Town and our local high school had a drama program which I was not
1:46.0	in at 14 but our English teacher we started reading Shakespeare and the first play we read was
1:54.8	Macbeth and she said we're going to read it out loud and we're going to put together some
2:02.2	scenes after class and you can invite your parents and so I did the sleepwalking scene
2:10.4	Lady Macbeth from Macbeth at 14. I was a very shy kind of geeky child and it was the first time
2:22.4	I felt the power of being on stage just being up there and feeling oh there's a whole group of
2:29.3	adults really quiet and listen. It felt very powerful but also it was it was literally the hook
2:38.1	that went into my crawl and I haven't gotten it out since which is really exciting for me now
2:44.5	at 63. I first performed as a professional actor. I performed Lady Macbeth five years ago at Berkeley
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