Shirley MacLaine at 88: ‘I started talking to myself’ during the pandemic

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Shirley MacLaine at 88: ‘I started talking to myself’ during the pandemic
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When asked why she gets offered “feisty older lady” parts, the screen legend said: “Well, maybe they’re not that way when they are written.”

MacLaine plays a lonely widow who offers a cash-strapped professor the chance to buy her sprawling estate for mere pennies. The deal, however, is not as it seems on the surface.

“I liked the script and I thought it was an interesting take on reality — and I wanted to work with Peter Dinklage,” she said. Amazingly, it’s Dektor’s directorial debut, and the filmmaker admitted that “everyone was, you know, taking a chance on me but I felt like they kind of made it easy for me not to feel intimidated just by the way they approached it.”

“I think it’s good being in touch with what many of us had been losing,” she explained. “A sense of who we basically and centrally are, even with all of what goes on in our businesses and social life.“There’s a reason [for everything], what the reason is for COVID, we’re trying to figure out and I think being cooped up alone is contributive to figuring out some other stuff we should have figured out years ago. So I say everything happens for learning.

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