![]() Sixty years ago, you were nominated for Best Supporting Actress at 10, the youngest person ever to be nominated for that Oscar. It's not a comfortable character to play.ĭorcas Sowunmi, left, and Mary Badham in the Broadway stage adaption of To Kill a Mockingbird. And, you know, I've had to work through it. So you can inhabit the character, but you can't let the character inhabit you. ![]() But I just basically have to think through it as: This is a role. I mean, I have to get rid of it when I'm done. What did you have to do to find this comfort with the role? But I think I found a way of dealing with her and with presenting her. Is it hard to play a character like that? You're playing one of Scout's neighbours, who's a mean-spirited, racist old woman. But this time you're in a very different role. You first did this as the character Scout … in the original film. But I've gotten used to it now, and the audiences are just loving it.īecause I'm not a theatre person. Mary, how does it feel to go on stage to help tell this story you first told as a child? Here is part of Badham's conversation with As It Happens guest host David Cochrane. Dubose, Scout's antagonistic and virulently racist elderly neighbour. Now the 69-year-old is making her stage debut in the Broadway adaptation of the story, based on Lee's 1960 novel of the same name.īut this time, instead of playing a rambunctious young girl who learns important lessons about bigotry in America, she's taking on the role of Mrs. ![]() She was 10 years old, and to this day, is the youngest person nominated in the category. Six decades after she played the feisty tomboy Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, Mary Badham is returning to the Harper Lee classic.īadham was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the 1962 film. ![]()
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