Actor Patricia Clarkson is proud of her reputation for playing "unsavory" characters, but the one she describes as "the coolest motherf****r in the world" was an Alabama mom who worked at a tire company.
Oscar and Tony Award-nominated Clarkson has had an on-screen career spanning cerebral dramas like "Good Night and Good Luck" and broad comedies like "Easy A," but she's perhaps best known for playing women who are icy cool and utterly chilling, like her Golden Globe and Emmy-winning turn as Adora in HBO's 2018 series "Sharp Objects." After viewers got a taste of Clarkson's scene-stealingly brittle Southern belle, "People would cross the street not to get near me," Clarkson recalled with obvious relish during a recent "Salon Talks" conversation. Yet it's her role as a real-life American hero that she's most excited about these days.
