Toronto Flashback: Annette Bening Charmed TIFF With ‘Being Julia’

Annette Bening was middle stage in 2004 on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant when Being Julia, directed by Istvan Szabo, served because the opening evening movie. “We’re thrilled to open this yr’s pageant with Being Julia,” Piers Dealing with, the TIFF Group’s then CEO and director, stated. “Annette Bening offers an award-worthy efficiency surrounded by large Canadian and worldwide expertise.” And, in actual fact, Bening went on to obtain the third of her 4 Oscar nominations for her efficiency as a middle-aged London stage actress who discovers a brand new lease on life when her husband (Jeremy Irons) introduces her to a younger actor (Shaun Evans) with whom she begins an affair.

“We love our film. We’re hopelessly keen on it,” the actress enthused to Hi there! Journal on the purple carpet. “It’s one thing that I labored very exhausting on and I actually care very deeply about it.” Accompanying her was her husband, Warren Beatty, who added in reward of his spouse: “You’ll by no means assume {that a} human being would have the ability to do what this one does at house and nonetheless be what she is at work. She has numerous power and extra expertise than any actress alive — I’m at all times amazed by her.”

Sitting for an interview with The Washington Submit, Bening expanded additional on the movie, saying, “You see me, an actress, taking part in the a part of an actress who’s additionally taking part in numerous components in numerous methods. And also you additionally see her form of strip down. …  It is a lady whose masks fall away. As soon as I heard an actress say, ‘Good appearing is about taking off a masks. Not placing one on.’ It’s all about that.”

Bening returns to the pageant this yr, taking up the position of real-life long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in Nyad, a Netflix characteristic directed by the husband-and-wife crew of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. And judging by the enthusiastic buzz after the movie’s world premiere on the Telluride Movie Pageant, a fifth Oscar nomination might nicely be within the offing.