Louise Fletcher was an awesome lady. Here’s part of her Oscar speech after she won for playing Nurse Ratched:
Well, it looks like you all hated me so much that you’ve given me this award for it, and I’m loving every minute of it. And all I can say is I’ve loved being hated by you.
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She was an incredibly talented lady, especially at playing insufferably hateable characters. She only died two years ago. Supposedly in real life, she was a sweetheart.
I can definitely see that she was truly an amazing actress but really a good person.
She’d have made a great Dolores Umbridge. (Not to detract from the hatred Imelda Staunton succeeded in generating, she was great too!)
If those films had been American instead of British, she’d have been a shoe-in.
I need more Raktajino. I read:
Your Gagh is strong my child.
An honorable meal!
Still wriggling!
I really enjoyed despising Kai Winn. She’s such a broken character, always choosing the wrong side and still being completely convinced that her way is without alternative.
Still, I had some level of empathy with her (the gods she, in a way dedicated her love to, never chose her, never spoke to her and when she finally received visions, it was demons deceiving her). Fletchers performance is just the best.
She was the chosen betrayer and played her role in the prophecy.
Inhales
MY CHILD
I want to body slam that piece of shit into the nearest galactic barrier.
I just watched In the Hands of the Prophets for the first time a few days ago. The conversations between her and Sisko are master class in acting. The way Avery expresses Sisko holding it together, when you know he just wants to unleash on her. And the way she delivers her lines cold and they cut so deep, all while having a smile on her face. It is so good it is scary.
She delivers the line, “May the Prophets forgive you for abandoning them” like she is spitting at him, but is very monotone and matter of fact with a smirk. I honestly don’t know how she does it.
She’s probably one of the top five rage/hate/appreciate combination of an actor and character in television.
Love to hate her, she’s easily one of the best.
Apparently wholesome as fuck off screen, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim
Billed in Hollywood as ‘The Man You Love To Hate.’
You can remove everything except for “my child” and it’s still accurate.
She’s like the dude from the Voices Carry video. Every frame they appear in makes you want to push the Earth into a black hole just because they are on it.
You know Billy, what worries me is how your mother is going to take this.
That scene still haunts me.
