Mother lode
Jan 02, 2022
4 minutes
Maggie Gyllenhaal has been defined by her confronting characters. She may have occasionally turned up as a superhero’s girlfriend – as she did in The Dark Knight – but Gyllenhaal’s acting career has been one of singular, difficult women: the heroin addict of Sherrybaby; the young journalist who falls for the wizened country singer in Crazy Heart; the employee in a sadomasochistic relationship with her boss in Secretary; the 70s New York porn actress of The Deuce; the Anglo-Jewish businesswoman caught in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict of The Honourable Woman.
So it’s perhaps
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