‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: William H. Macy On Being “SWEPT AWAY” by ‘Train Dreams,’ ‘Shameless’ Lessons and Learning to Love His Big Screen “Losers”

William H. MacyThe Consummate Character Actor, Has Been Giving Standout Performances for 50 Years – In Films Such As Fargo, Boogie Nights an Pleasantville; TV Programs Including Er, Door to door an Shameless; and Plays written by David MAMET. Earlier This Month, The 75-Year-Eld Sat Down with The Hollywood Reporter In Front of An Audence at the Access Canada Summit in Toronto to Reflect on His Life, Career and Who He Was “SWEPT AWAY” by Train DreamsThe New Film in WHICH HE STARS, WHICH WAS About to Screen at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Train Dreams Was adapted, from Denis Johnson‘s 2011 Novella of the Same Name, by the Oscar-Nominated Team Behind Jockey an Sing Sing, Clint Bentley an Greg Kwedar. Under the Direction of Bentley, It Stars Joel Edgerton As Robert Grainier, A Railroad Worker and Logger in the Pacific Northwest in the Early Decades of the 20th Century. Macy Plays Arn Peeples, A Man Grainier Encounters Several Times Along The Way, Who, In Addition To Being An Explosives Specialist With A Great Name, Is Also A Philosopher, Singer An Al.

Macy-A Two-Time Emmy and Four-Time Sag Award Winner and An Oscar Nominee Who Has Been Descripted by The Los Angeles Times as “chameleonic,” by the New York Times as “DIZYZYINGY VERSATILE” and by The Guardian as someone whose “Name on a movie have been one of Those reassuring elements that tend to suggest the movie in quesation might actual bely bewh. Train Dreamsbut he make every second that he does have cont. And the Film Serves as A Reminder, After A Decade of Macy Being Largely Absent from the Big Screen, Of What Makes Him So Special – and A Best Supporting Actor Oscar Contender.

Netflix Will Release Train Dreams in theaters on nov. 7 And on Its Streaming Platform on Nov. 21.

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