{"id":414548,"date":"2026-01-18T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:06:07","slug":"has-not-been-good-for-me-or-my-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414548\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Has Not Been Good For Me Or My Career’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAcademy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo<\/a> is reflecting on the accolade she received for her supporting role in the 2010 David O. Russell<\/a> boxing biopic The Fighter, saying it was detrimental to her professional and personal life.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Q&A published in The Guardian<\/a>, the Frozen River star answered fan-submitted questions, including one about her 2011 Oscar triumph.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne loses one\u2019s mind,\u201d she said. \u201cI had won a lot of prestigious awards for The Fighter that season, and sat in that great gigantic theatre thinking: \u2018Well, it certainly\u00a0is\u00a0possible.\u2019 Kirk Douglas came out to present the best supporting actress award, opened the envelope and called my name. I was so delighted to meet him \u2014 that was all I was thinking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, describing the scene: \u201cI turned to the house, which in most theaters, you can see by looking a little above your own eyesight. In the Dolby Theatre, you have to raise your chin like you\u2019re about to scale Mount Everest. Every single actor, director and producer you recognize, is staring you in the face. I then cursed, and I\u2019m still sorry I cursed. I fucking curse all the time, but you cannot curse on network television. Thank God for the 10-second delay, which was introduced for fucking idiots like me. Having said that, winning an Oscar has not been good for me or my career. I didn\u2019t dream of it, I never wanted it, and I had a much better career before I won.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Fighter centers on the life of pro\u00a0boxer\u00a0Micky Ward\u00a0(Mark Wahlberg), who is managed by his mother Alice (Leo) and trained by his older half-brother\/former boxer\u00a0Dicky Eklund\u00a0(Christian Bale).<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the role, Leo said, \u201cI accepted because David really, really wanted me to be his Alice. Then I met the real Alice Ward, who came from a very different socioeconomic background than my mother\u2019s mother, but there was something of my mother\u2019s mother in her, so that\u2019s where I found a path towards becoming her. I was no more than 10 years older than the majority of the nine people who played Alice\u2019s children, but that\u2019s movies for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLeo \u2014 who is also known for her roles in Denis Villeneuve\u2019s\u00a0Prisoners, The Equalizer\u00a0franchise, Oliver Stone\u2019s\u00a0Snowden\u00a0and the HBO series\u00a0I Know This Much Is True \u2014 added in her responses that she\u2019s \u201chappy to play what I\u2019m offered \u2014 apart from after\u00a0The Fighter, when all I was offered was older, nasty women. I don\u2019t want to do that any more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo is reflecting on the accolade she received for her supporting role in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,65470,88,198686,29506],"class_list":{"0":"post-414548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-david-o-russell","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-melissa-leo","12":"tag-oscars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}