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Saturday 3 November 2018

Julia Roberts, Sissy Spacek on co-starring in ‘Homecoming’

By JAKE COYLE things I felt were absolutely
Associated Press critical to me being able to
TORONTO (AP) — Julia Rob- do this, just because of how
erts and Sissy Spacek, two my creative mind works
big-smiling big-screen leg- were: I wanted Sam to di-
ends, were remembering rect all the episodes and I
the first time they met. wanted all the scripts be-
It was when Roberts, then fore we started shooting. I
13, took a trip to New York can’t read a map just one
to visit her older brother, little section at a time.”
the actor Eric Roberts, who “Brilliant!” nods Spacek.
was making 1981’s “Rag- Figuring out one’s place in
gedy Man” with Spacek a long-format series with-
and her husband, the pro- out the full picture, Spacek
duction designer Jack Fisk. says, is like being the bird in
“I always claimed her,” the children’s book: “Are
Spacek said in her bright you my mommy? Are you
Texas accent in an inter- my mommy?” A naturalis-
view in September along- tic fixture of cinema in the
side Roberts. “I knew her This image released by Amazon shows Julia Roberts in a scene from “Homecoming,” an Amazon ‘70s (“Badlands,” ‘’Car-
when she was 13! She was series premiering on Nov. 2. rie”), ‘80s (“The Coal Min-
part mine! Lo and behold Associated Press er’s Daughter,” for which
you are!” ever there was one. Rob- it has to be done,” Rob- is based on a fictional pod- she won an Oscar) and
That their reunion, many erts stars in the series, which erts continues, undeterred. cast. Roberts plays a case ‘90s (“The Straight Story”),
decades later, comes on premieres Friday, and “You do sit there at a cer- worker at a remote military the 68-year-old Spacek has
the small screen speaks to Spacek plays her mother. tain point like, ‘Oh God, facility ostensibly designed more regularly dabbled in
how much has changed As long ago as it was, their that’s Sissy Spacek right to help soldiers reintegrate television. With credits in-
in the intervening years. background together next to me.’ Fortunately, to civilian life. But dread cluding HBO’s “Big Love,”
The Amazon series “Home- proved helpful. the first scene we did on hovers over the mysteri- Netflix’s “Bloodline” and
coming,” a psychological “Thank goodness I met Sis- the couch, I don’t ever ous program, a sense only Hulu’s “Castle Rock,” she’s
thriller directed by Sam sy when I was 13 because look at her.” The two burst furthered by flash-forward a peak-TV veteran.
Esmail (“Mr. Robot”), has when she came in we all out laughing and a pair of scenes of Roberts’ charac- “It used to be back in the
drawn plenty of attention had to pinch ourselves,” the most infectious cackles ter living with her mom and day that if you were a film
because it it’s the first for- Roberts says, to which you’ve ever heard echo having only foggy recol- actor, you didn’t do TV. And
ay into scripted television Spacek groans: “Oh come around the room. lections of her past. “I grew if you did, things weren’t so
by Roberts, the megawatt on!” “It is awful to talk like “She’s being very gra- up watching television and good,” Spacek says. “And
epitome of a movie star if this in front of a person, but cious,” says Spacek. then there’s a whole period that’s all changed, and I
“I’m just being honest,” re- of my life where television love that about it. The veil
torts Roberts. “Trust me, I’m was just not on my radar,” has lifted. It’s just where
not that nice.” “Homecom- says Roberts. “For me com- there’s great work going
ing,” dense and paranoid, ing in from film, the two on.”q

Tiffany Haddish’s goal to make

50 movies by 50th birthday

By JILL DOBSON
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — By the
time Tiffany Haddish turns
50, she’s hoping to have 50
movies to her credit. She’s
got 12 years and a few
dozen films to achieve it.
“That’s the goal,” she said
recently and quickly fol-
lowed it up with, “They’re
not all gonna be great.”
She insists her latest movie,
“Nobody’s Fool,” out Friday This image released by Paramount Pictures shows director Tyler
and written, directed and Perry, right, and Tiffany Haddish on the set of “Nobody’s Fool.”
produced by Tyler Perry, is Associated Press
one of the good ones. getting out of jail and they a 30-year-old Madea,” he
In the movie, Haddish and discover Sumpter’s boy- said, referring to his wise-
Tika Sumpter play sisters. friend is catfishing her. cracking character that
Sumpter is the straight- It’s Perry’s first R-rated com- has turned into a franchise.
laced one who makes all edy and he says he wrote Madea was introduced
the right choices. Haddish Haddish’s part with her in in 1999 in a play and then
is more a wild child. The mind. went on to appear films, TV
movie begins with Haddish “I felt like I was writing for and a book. q