“I had a big fat suit and I had the hair, but I felt like the body was kind of the burden that the mum was carrying around, the burden of her cruelty to her daughter…, the life she sucked away from her daughter seemed to come and live on her body, so that was kind of liberating to do, but it was also kind of scary because you feel like, ‘That’s not how I wanna see myself!’.” It was liberating and scary at the same time. Carlos Correa’s Finger Not Broken, Just Bruised. Source for information on Harden, Marcia Gay 1959: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television dictionary. CBS Unveils 2022-2023 Primetime LineupCBSs fall lineup includes new shows such starring Marcia Gay Harden. “Everybody thought that she was the most loving person in the world, until they discovered the daughter… was walking around perfectly fine… (So) the physique was really important to me, the transformation was really important to me…”Īdmitting it was terrifying looking in the mirror when she was dressed as Camile, Marcia, a mother of three, said, “It was really, really scary in a way. HARDEN, Marcia Gay 1959 PERSONAL Born August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, CA (some sources cite Tokyo, Japan) daughter of Thaddeus Harden (a naval officer) married Thaddeus Scheel, 1996 children: Eulala Grace, Hudson and Julitta Dee (twins). “In this case, this woman that I play, her behaviour was so monstrous, but you can’t play a monster, you have to play a real human being capable of monstrous behaviour,” she explained on U.S. Marcia had to wear a wig and a fat suit to become the “monstrous” mother, and the props played a vital role in helping the actress embody her character. When Camile is found stabbed to death and her daughter missing, police launch a search for Esme, only to discover there was nothing wrong with her at all, and she was actually a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, forced to believe she was ill by her controlling and abusive mother.
MARCIA GAY HARDEN FINGER MOVIE
The movie features the Mystic River star as abusive mum Camile, who convinced her daughter Esme she was mentally and physically disabled from a young age. Actress Marcia Gay Harden was not a fan of the “scary” physical transformation she underwent for real-life crime drama Love You To Death.