HE believes that Kerry Condon, who plays the sensible but distraught Siobhan (the sister of Colin Farrell‘s Paddy) in The Banshees of Inisherin, has given the most grounded and formidable supporting actress performance so far this year.
For what it;s worth Condon is on the Best Supporting Actress lists of almost all of the finger-to-the-wind Gold Derby prognosticators, and clearly has plenty of wind in her sails as we speak.
If not Condon I would vote for Carey Mulligan‘s Megan Twohey in She Said.
Due respect but I find it almost satirical that Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis‘s broad, comic-book-level performances in Everything Everywhere All at Once are even being discussed in this context. Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley‘s taut, enraged performances in Sarah Polley‘s Women Talking are entirely respectable, but they’re arguably playing feminist constructs as opposed to rounded, relatable human beings.
Meanwhile the competition for the appealing alternate titles of of Martin McDoangh’s new film continues apace. My favorites are (a) Fingers (hat tip to James Toback’s 1978 film), (b) Five Finger Exercise or…what others?
