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NYFF '08: Sally Hawkins

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NYFF '08: Sally Hawkins

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Sally Hawkins charmed us with her starring role in Mike Leigh’s new aptly titled movie HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. Though her character Poppy is in her 30’s, she still regards life with the same enthusiasm and naïveté of a child. Hawkins' mesmerizing performance earned her the Best Actress award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and continues to delight audiences here in New York.

Here she talks about the challenges and joys of playing a woman so deeply in love with being alive.

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Transcript:

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY marks RADA-trained Sally Hawkins’ third collaboration with Mike Leigh.  She made her film debut as Samantha in All or Nothing, and was then seen as Susan in Vera Drake.  Other film roles include Matthew Vaughan's Layer Cake, Tom Shankland’s Waz, and most recently, Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream.  She has just completed Sherry Horman’s Desert Flower and Lone Scherfig’s An Education, both to be released in 2009.
 

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