Laura Linney Jokes She ‘Would’ve Read The Phone Book’ To Work With Maggie Smith & Kathy Bates (Exclusive)

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While Laura Linney is an icon herself, the Emmy Award winning histrion virtually leaped astatine the accidental to enactment with manufacture legends Kathy Bates and Maggie Smith connected the caller film, The Miracle Club. “To beryllium capable to enactment with Maggie and Kathy, I would’ve work the telephone book!” Linney joked, portion chatting with HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY astatine Cinema Society and Sony Pictures Classics screening of the movie successful NYC. “Honestly, I would’ve done thing to enactment with them. I was conscionable fortunate that it besides progressive a communicative that was charming and had large heart.”

Laura Linney and Maggie Smith successful ‘The Miracle Club.’ (Everett Collection)

The three-time Oscar nominated histrion began her vocation connected Broadway successful 1990 and has worked steadily since, starring successful the beloved vacation movie Love Actually, the miniseries John Adams and, astir recently, Ozark. When it comes to the benignant of enactment she seeks retired astatine this constituent successful her career, Linney explained it request to person astatine slightest “one of 3 things: It’s either a large script, large idiosyncratic to enactment with oregon a large director.” In the lawsuit of The Miracle Club, each the boxes were checked.

“When you get to enactment with people astatine this caliber, it’s conscionable truly an breathtaking acquisition and I conscionable loved going to enactment each time with them and watching them enactment and seeing the choices they would make,” the New York autochthonal gushed implicit co-stars Bates and Smith. “I deliberation we each learned a batch from each other.”

Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith and Agnes O’Casey successful ‘The Miracle Club.’ (Everett Collection)

While she was incapable to prime an absolute favourite performance from the Downton Abbey and Titanic alums, Linney noted that Smith and Bates’ “theater enactment is what archetypal made [her] autumn successful emotion with them.”

Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle Club tells the communicative of 3 generations of women — Lily (Maggie Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates), and Dolly (Agnes O’Casey), and their imagination to permission their hard-knocks colony of Ballygar successful Dublin, and sojourn the ineffable French municipality of Lourdes. The ladies person the accidental to triumph a accidental to marque the pilgrimage to the metropolis that promises miracles, but their plans are sidelined erstwhile their aged person Chrissie (Laura Linney) returns location from America for her mother’s funeral.

Laura Linney astatine the Cinema Society screening of Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Miracle Club” astatine Ladurée Soho. (Jason Crowley/BFA)

Andrew Saffir of Cinema Society and Sony Pictures Classics hosted a peculiar screening of the movie connected July 11th astatine the Tribeca Screening Room, followed by a observe astatine Lauderée Soho.

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