‘Clipped’ Star Jacki Weaver on Donald Sterling’s Affairs, Finding Empathy for Shelly and Drinking Half-and-Half to Nail Her Voice
19.06.2024 - 00:51
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J. Kim Murphy SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses the fourth episode of FX’s “Clipped,” “Winning Ugly,” now streaming on Hulu. Jacki Weaver had always wanted to play Lady Macbeth. In an interview with The Guardian, the celebrated Australian actor shared her wishes to play the role, with the caveat that, being in her 70s, she may have aged out of the part.
But now, with FX’s “Clipped,” Weaver gets an opportunity close to it: She plays Shelly Sterling, the wife of a modern-day Macbeth, in the power-obsessed, narcissistic land baron Donald Sterling (Ed O’Neill). Even so, the actor bristles at the comparison when it’s posed to her. “I went into this thinking Shelly deserved everything she got — that she was just as bad as he was.
… But she’s a bit of a victim in a way,” Weaver says in an interview. “Shelly really did love Donald somewhere deep down, and she put up with all this crap from him. I’d have killed him.” This week’s episode of “Clipped” rewinds the timeline for several of its characters, examining their lives years before a viral TMZ tape revealed Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist beliefs to the world, and engulfed the NBA in scandal.
As Shelly begins to distance herself from her husband in 2013, the series follows the Sterlings back to 2006 — a time when their marriage nearly collapsed. The flashback begins as the two real estate moguls combat a housing discrimination lawsuit. That’s before Donald enters another legal dispute with a former mistress that closely resembles his later relationship with V.
Stiviano (Cleopatra Coleman). Tensions between the Sterlings come to a head, and Shelly orders Donald to move out of their mansion. “She was so embarrassed by that stage.
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