Jacki Weaver
Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth "Jacki" Weaver, AOis an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdomand Silver Linings Playbook, both of which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth25 May 1947
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
revealed work
A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
endlessly incredibly love people unlike
I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
apart bigger bored family maybe people pretend since stories work
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.
I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
years stuff roles
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.
laughing want
I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.
daughter mother thinking
Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.
naughty positive-life laughing
Emily [Blunt] is such a giggler, she has such a positive life force about her and she's so giggly in a naughty sort of schoolgirl way that it kind of brings out the worst in you, you just love making her laugh. And also Nick Stoller has one of the best laughs. It's so infectious and whenever he laughs at something you do, it's like giving us a reward.
daughter running law
Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.
america australia law
The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America.
thinking grace stories
I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.
thinking able curb
I think we're all capable of bad things but luckily most of us are able to curb ourselves.
drama school play
One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.
girl mom sweet
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.