The film that is going to blitz the awards season

By Stephanie Bunbury
Updated December 2 2017 - 12:03am, first published November 30 2017 - 12:21pm
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Three Billboards Day 04_118.dng Frances McDormand in?? Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.??

When it comes to playing a certain kind of toughness, the resilience of the drover's wife, nobody can hold a candle to Frances McDormand. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the proof. British director Martin McDonagh wrote the part of Mildred, a shop assistant in a small town determined to push the police to find her daughter's killer, specifically for McDormand. It took four years, so he didn't tell her about it - he barely knew her - just wrote the script and sent it off. If she hadn't wanted to take on the role, McDonagh says he wouldn't have known what to do. "There's no one else who could have played it," he says.

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