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Laura Linney: Father
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Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman star as siblings who have to deal with placing their elderly, ailing father in a rest home in the dramatic film, The Savages. Written and directed by Tamara Jenkins (Slums of Beverly Hills), The Savages focuses on the decision process and how taking that drastic but necessary step affects all those involved in the process.
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Laura Linney’s genuine artistry is evident to anyone who has seen her in films or on stage. It makes her theater father very happy. That’s fine. But it is the dignity of her person and the warmth of her concern for others that makes her writer father most proud. She is held in high esteem by many famous colleagues, and for good reason. She is a great partner for any actor or actress, bringing to their work a selfless support as well as a brilliant performance.
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The title of her new film might be “The Savages,” but Laura Linney proved quite the opposite. The actress co-stars with Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman in a film about two siblings who suddenly getting yanked out of their self-obsessed lives to deal with a an ailing father now entering a nursing home.
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Linney grew up in New York, where her mother was a nurse, and her father was Romulus Linney, a busy off-Broadway playwright. But her parents divorced while she was young, and while Linney remains close to her father, and describes his influence as "huge," she insists her path to acting was her own.
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Linney says that being around theater all her life - her father is playwright Romulus Linney - didn't help her define the character of the aspiring playwright in the movie. But it did mean Linney got all the inferences and references that filmmaker Jenkins cunningly put into her scenes.
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Analyzing Her Character: ‘Wendy’ is an interesting, troubled woman and one whose problems stem from, according to Linney, going after the wrong people. “There are reasons for that. Jon and Wendy’s lives are so formed by whatever relationship they had with Phil’s character, the other Phil [Bosco, who plays the dad]. Their childhood is so much with them and they’re in different stages of arrested development. But while Phil’s character’s is coming off that sense of abuse, she was just ignored. There was just neglect and you can see that in how they respond to the situation - the crisis of having to take care of their father.
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