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I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

Jacki Weaver

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Jacki Weaver
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 25
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Theatre Actress
Sydney
NSW
Jacqueline Ruth Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver
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To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
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I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
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Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.
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I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.
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The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.
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I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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