’20th Century Women’ Star Annette Bening on Why Acting Still Scares Her
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Channel: TheWrap · 2017 · Entertainment
Even now, she still gets nervous. “You’ve got your fear and your doubt and your insecurities, and they’re always there,” said Annette Bening, 28 years into a film career that has brought her four Oscar nominations, two Golden Globe wins, SAG and BAFTA awards and enough acclaim that you might figure she walks onto a set pretty confident in her abilities. “You always think, ‘Will I be able to do it?’ It changes over the years, but it doesn’t ever go away. I think it’s just human nature to have some fear.” The latest film to scare her is “20th Century Women,” writer-director Mike Mills’ ode of sorts to his mother. Following the 2010 film “Beginners,” in which Christopher Plummer won an Oscar for playing a fictionalized version of Mills’ father, “20th Century Women” tackles his other parent through Bening’s character Dorothea, a single mother raising her son in 1979 in the seaside town of Santa Barbara, California, with the help of a ramshackle house full of eccentric roomers and guests played by Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and Elle Fanning. Subscribe to TheWrap's YouTube: http://bit.ly/TheWrapYTSub Subscribe to Our Newsletter: http://bit.ly/TheWrapNewsletter Twitter: http://bit.ly/TheWrapTwFollow Instagram: http://bit.ly/TheWrapIG Find us at www.TheWrap.com
