{"id":78908,"date":"2025-08-13T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78908\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:19:12","slug":"weapons-aunt-gladys-actress-amy-madigan-was-given-two-origin-story-options-for-her-memorable-character-amy-madigan-weapons-zach-cregger-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78908\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons\u2019 Aunt Gladys Actress Amy Madigan Was Given Two Origin Story Options for Her Memorable Character | Amy Madigan, Weapons, Zach Cregger | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Madigan<\/a> gives one of the most memorable performances of the year in the new horror movie Weapons and many fans are hoping she\u2019ll get an Oscar nomination for her work as Gladys.<\/p>\n

The 74-year-old actress, best known for playing Annie in Field of Dreams, was kept entirely out of the marketing for the movie to not give anything away about her character. <\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t want to know more, stop reading right now.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve seen the movie already or don\u2019t care about spoilers, we have some cool new information about Gladys thanks to director Zach Cregger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019m more than happy to sing Amy\u2019s praises in the press all day long. She\u2019s so incredible in this movie. Without her, the movie doesn\u2019t work,\u201d he told Vanity Fair<\/a>. \u201cShe saved me. It\u2019s just hard to discuss her character without getting into spoilers, so it\u2019s tricky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Aunt<\/p>\n

In the movie, Amy plays Gladys, the supposed \u201caunt\u201d of Alex who is taken in by his parents as she\u2019s allegedly sick and not doing well. Quickly after moving in, she uses her magical tree to do witchcraft and take control of anyone she wants. After putting Alex\u2019s parents into a vegetative state, she forces Alex to help her lure his classmates to their house so she can feed off them and maintain her strength. <\/p>\n

Zach says that he never came up with the answer about Gladys\u2019 backstory and presented Amy with two options for her to use, but told her not to tell him which one she went with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI presented Amy with two options of her origin story. I was like, \u2018You can pick one of these two,\u2019\u201d he told VF. \u201cThey\u2019re very different options. And was like, \u2018You don\u2019t have to tell me, but it is either this or that.\u2019 I don\u2019t know which one she picked.\u201d <\/p>\n

The first option was that \u201cshe was once a regular person, but her spells and corrosive actions are a last-ditch effort to heal herself of a life-threatening illness.\u201d The second option was \u201cthat maybe she\u2019s not a person at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zach opened up about the origin of Gladys\u2019 look.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think that maybe Gladys went to Boca Raton and looked around, and then just scraped an outfit together, and was like, \u2018This is what a person does, right?\u2019\u201d he joked with the magazine. \u201cShe didn\u2019t really think it through. Maybe that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three major stars dropped out of the movie<\/a> before it started filming. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Gladys is only briefly seen in a blink-or-you\u2019ll-miss-it moment in the first trailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Madigan gives one of the most memorable performances of the year in the new horror movie Weapons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-78908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78908","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=78908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}