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What would you do if you found yourself in the middle of a dinner table fight with Oscar-winning actresses Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts? For actress Julianne Nicholson, it was a ‘dream come true’ as she joined an all-star cast of Hollywood heavy-weights for the dark family drama August: Osage County, which has earned both Streep and Roberts Oscar nods this year.
At the Sundance Film Festival earlier this month, the actress, who has carved out a career on television, with long-running roles on Ally McBeal, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and more recently, on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Showtime’s Masters of Sex spoke to Reuters, about who she really bonded with on August: Osage County.
You teamed up with a formidable cast on August: Osage County — who surprised you the most?
How did you want to play your character Ivy, especially when some of the other characters such as the ones played by Julia and Meryl, are so explosive?
I felt like she was the watcher, especially when everybody comes back … because she has that reveal at the end, it felt like it would be good to save the drama. There is so much going on in that movie. There’s a lot of drama. I guess I’m wanting to live out all the drama in my work so that I can live out a calm, nice life for real at home.
The film was adapted from a stage play and a lot of the scenes are filmed in close quarters. Seeing it on the big screen, how do you think the issues came across cinematically?
It is a movie and it’s entertainment, so what they’re going through is more exaggerated than what you and I might go through day-to-day with families, but even within that, it made me feel for my family and people I love. Also, everyone in that movie is over 40, except Abigail (Breslin, 17) — people who have lived lives and have history and experience and the heartbreak of a life; the joy and the heartbreak of just being alive and making it through the days. I hope that doesn’t sound too depressing!.
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