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With three acting Oscars to her name (and one for producing), Frances McDormand<\/a>\u2019s career could easily beat Katharine Hepburn to posit her as the most successful actor in Academy Award history, with plenty of time to scoop up a few more wins. <\/p>\n It also doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s all that hard for her to earn a nomination, having garnered eight since the late 1980s, first getting recognised by the Academy for her performance in Mississippi Burning, and winning, of course, her first for the Coen brothers\u2019 classic 1990s crime film Fargo<\/a>, truly cementing McDormand as a Hollywood gem.\u00a0<\/p>\n It seems like acting comes easily to her, but it appears to be something she can switch on and off. As much as she loves her job, she makes sure not to let it consume her to the point of no return, which many stars are certainly guilty of. \u201cI\u2019m a character actress, plain and simple,\u201d she once said, \u201cWho can worry about a career?\u2026 Movie stars have careers, actors work, and then they don\u2019t work, and then they work again.\u00a0You have to get away from the theatre or from the set and live life. If you work constantly from job to job, you\u2019re living in a fantasy world and you have nothing else to offer than fantasy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n So, with this in mind, McDormand lives her life, preferring to keep out of the spotlight as much as possible, instead showing up to work when she needs to and giving it her all,\u00a0only to return to herself when the camera stops rolling.\u00a0Different actors have different techniques when it comes to embodying their characters on screen, and keeping in mind her attitude, it doesn\u2019t seem like method acting, for example,<\/a> is her preference. <\/p>\n Unlike the Daniel Day-Lewis-es of the acting world, not everyone feels it absolutely necessary to constantly be in character, where sometimes it\u2019s just far too much.\u00a0Then you\u2019ve got those actors who love to improvise, a skill that you might regard as something only accomplished by the best of the best, but it\u2019s something that McDormand believes she is terrible at. Whether she actually is or not is a question of how humble she\u2019s being, but it\u2019s not something she feels confident about, anyhow.\u00a0<\/p>\n Discussing the movie City by the Sea, which she starred in alongside Robert De Niro, the actor told UPI regarding her costar, \u201cHe\u2019s a master at improvisation and I\u2019m really bad at it. I was like, \u2018The script, the script\u2019. But it was also interesting because there were some heavy, heavy monologues, like major technical stuff that Bob had to have down.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Clearly, McDormand prefers to know what she\u2019s getting herself into so that she can adequately prepare, while some stars, like De Niro, are happy to be given the chance to improvise their characters\u2019 lines to embody them more authentically. It\u2019s certainly not for everyone, but it doesn\u2019t mean that one actor is therefore better than the other; it\u2019s just about rolling as you can and winning some Oscars regardless.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Circle Films) Sat 8 November 2025 23:30, UK With three acting Oscars to her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,158624,134,158625,30815],"class_list":["post-272992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-coen-brothers","tag-entertainment","tag-frances-mcdormand","tag-robert-de-niro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}