Fricker at home on the big screen again at Dublin Film Festival
Fricker was tending to her ailing father at the time, and had to cut her short. She said she’d call back. She went into her father’s room and mentioned to him that her friend had phoned about something to do with an Oscar Wilde play or some such frippery.
A couple of months later, Fricker was bounding onto the stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles to receive her Academy Award from Kevin Kline, having seen off shortlisted actresses such as Julia Roberts and Angelica Huston. She doesn’t remember much about the night.
