Oscar-nominated actress Jacki Weaver on #TimesUp, Wikipedia and her upcoming thriller 'Goldstone'
Veteran Australian actress Jacki Weaver, who gained fame stateside for her Oscar-nominated turn in 2010's "Animal Kingdom," never expected to break out into American cinema. That is, until a kind stranger predicted the Academy Award nod she'd garner after one of the film's earliest screenings.
"At Sundance, I was walking down the street and a man came up to me and he said, 'I really loved "Animal Kingdom" and I think you're going to get an Oscar nomination,'" Weaver recalled. Mistaking him for a fan, she laughed it off until one of the film's producers, who'd witnessed the exchange from across the street, set her straight.
"She came over and said, 'Do you know who that was?'" Weaver said. "I said no and she said, 'He's only like one of the most influential film critics in all of America!'"
It turns out the stranger was The Times' movie critic Kenneth Turan, whom Weaver credits with helping her win the L.A. Critics Award that year. "And then on
