While talking on the NPR culture interview program “Bullseye” about his role as the title character in the Coens’ 2019 anthology western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Tim Blake-Nelson said that the trick to his performance was taking the ridiculous words, character, and setting of his homicidal singing cowboy segment and taking them deadly seriously.
"to have a 64 year old French woman in an English-language role as the romantic lead of a pastiche of studio-system comedies where the leading lady was rarely on the wrong side of 30" would make that "dried up bitter old maid" line land a lot differently as well
"to have a 64 year old French woman in an English-language role as the romantic lead of a pastiche of studio-system comedies where the leading lady was rarely on the wrong side of 30" would make that "dried up bitter old maid" line land a lot differently as well