As a troubled psychiatric patient in Stephen King’s new TV series ‘Lisey’s Story’, the three-time Oscar nominee subverts the matriarchal roles that brought her acclaim in ‘Face/Off’ and ‘The Crucible’ and tells Adam White about privacy, stardom and why she never minded playing the supportive spouse
. She then began to work more sparingly. She barked CIA orders in immaculately tailored suits in the Jason Bourne films, and played Brie Larson’s bereft mother in“I’m very selective about what I pick and choose,” she explains. It’s partly why she stopped appearing in plays, with a 20 year hiatus from the stage finally being broken in 2009, followed by another nine-year hiatus after that. “For me to do eight shows a week is a big emotional commitment.