#Where was cloudburst filmed movie#

You have to have a LOOK, it has to be CURRENT, the body has to look this way. But it's getting harder and harder for actors to do. 'She said, 'Oh, I used to say that all the time, growing up in Lowell. During one scene, in which Stella has to knock a naked man off her truck's windshield, Dukakis improvised a line so colourful that Fitzgerald had to call cut to ask her where that came from. But once she embraced it, she went all the way. He had to talk Dukakis into Stella's hairstyle (short, grey and mannish) clothes (oversized plaid shirts) and dialogue (ribald and expletive-laced). 'The butch/femme mentality was part of her youth, and Stella and Dot had to be closeted and secret,' Fitzgerald said in a separate phone interview. Stella is 81 in the film вЂ“ the same age as Dukakis вЂ“ and her experience of her sexuality is shaped by the era in which she came of age. She didn't want to play Stella for the hair and wardrobe, that's for sure. But I'm not going to do something that isn't good just because the politics are right.' Hey, I was the co-Grand Marshal of the gay parade in San Francisco a couple of years ago. 'Don't get me wrong, the fact that the politics were there was important to me. 'I look for movies that are about something, that not only have a plot, they have a STORY,' she continues. Or, 'You feel like something's gonna HAPPEN.' You imagine that she could persuade anyone of nearly anything. Her personality is potent, even over the phone her passionate, funny, wised-up remarks come through in capital letters, especially when she agrees with you вЂ“ 'It WAS, it was a LOT of fun,' she'll say.

'But if the story in Cloudburst didn't have the things in it I wanted, I wouldn't have done it,' she said this week in a phone interview. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, she's a lifelong liberal who's advocated for many causes, including women's rights and the environment. And politics are a big part of Dukakis's life: Cousin to 1988 U.S.

#Where was cloudburst filmed movie#

Olympia Dukakis didn't sign on to the new movie Cloudburst, written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald ( The Hanging Garden), because of its sexual politics, though politics do underpin the story: Stella (Dukakis) and Dot (Brenda Fricker), lovers of 31 years, go on the lam to Nova Scotia because they can't get married in their native Maine.