When I saw your scene with the fur jacket and the bird, I thought this was jumping the shark. But no, it was an accurate depiction.

The 58-year-old is the favourite to win the best supporting award for her role as LaVona Golden in ‘I, Tonya’ Don’t miss it!

I never in my wildest dreams would’ve imagined that that’s what she would look like. That is [an] interview that I saw of her, and that’s what she was wearing. It’s just so fantastically bizarre and doesn’t make sense, and somehow it does. The more complicated and twisted the role, the more fun it is to play for me. I love making sense of a hot mess, you know? It’s a lot of fun. It was hard to try to find humanity for [Golden], it was really hard. But I have empathy for her. I know that she had to come from a terrible environment.

Was it Tonya’s telling of the story that everyone was a competitor, that she wasn’t supposed to be friends with anybody she competed against?

This is Tonya’s version that her mother wouldn’t let her be friends, didn’t want her to have anything that would distract her from getting the gold. According to LaVona, every penny she earned went to Tonya’s skating, and she wasn’t going to let her waste a minute of it, knowing the deck was stacked against her. There’s a great interview of LaVona talking about the skating world, how the only thing that should matter is who’s the better skater, but there were so many other things that unfortunately played a part in whether or not you got the good marks, whether or not you came from a good family, if you had the prettiest skating costume, what music you chose. The judges determined what was part of a whole package. And Tonya very much did not fit into that package.

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