Since her Bafta-winning Red Road performance, Kate Dickie has cornered the market in troubled women. She tells Jane Graham about why she's finally in a good place
Kate Dickie comes bounding in, cheeks glowing and nose tip pink, shaking the first snow of Glasgow's winter from her shoulders and apologising for her lateness. "I had to run here on this slidey snow," she says. "I was on my arse most of the way." A peal of raucous laughter echoes around the cafe she's showering with a flurry of melting flakes.
It might be a surprise that Dickie turns out to be an unguarded and animated conversationalist, and rather intoxicating company. But since her performance as Jackie, the still, stony CCTV operator mourning the death of her daughter in Red Road (the Andrea Arnold film for which Dickie won a Scottish Bafta in 2006), she has carved out a series of serious roles,...
Kate Dickie comes bounding in, cheeks glowing and nose tip pink, shaking the first snow of Glasgow's winter from her shoulders and apologising for her lateness. "I had to run here on this slidey snow," she says. "I was on my arse most of the way." A peal of raucous laughter echoes around the cafe she's showering with a flurry of melting flakes.
It might be a surprise that Dickie turns out to be an unguarded and animated conversationalist, and rather intoxicating company. But since her performance as Jackie, the still, stony CCTV operator mourning the death of her daughter in Red Road (the Andrea Arnold film for which Dickie won a Scottish Bafta in 2006), she has carved out a series of serious roles,...
- 12/3/2010
- by Jane Graham
- The Guardian - Film News
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