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13. Frances McDormand Lived Like A Nomad For Much Of The Shoot - Nomadland
For her Best Actress-nominated performance as drifter Fern in Nomadland, Frances McDormand actually partially method-acted her way through the shoot, taking labour jobs, and even initially living out of Fern's van to get into the nomadic spirit of her character.
Ultimately the physical rigours of this approach understandably proved to be too much for the actress, though, and she later decided to live in more conventional - and comfortable! - accommodation for the rest of the shoot.
She said, "At 61, it’s much better for me to pretend to be exhausted than to actually be exhausted. I figured that out." Tough to argue with the logic.