Da’Vine Joy Randolph focused on portraying ‘complexities of average woman’ in ‘The Holdovers’
Da’Vine Joy Randolph became fixated on portraying the “complexities” of an “average woman” in ‘The Holdovers’. The 37-year-old actress – nominated for best supporting actress at Sunday’s (18.02.24) BAFTA awards in London’s Royal Festival Hall for her role as Mary in Alexander Payne’s comedy drama about a bunch of schoolboys marooned in school over Christmas. She said on the red carpet about her character, who is devastated over the death of her child in the movie: “It was extremely important to show an average woman and to show all the nuances and all the complexities of what it is to be a wom...