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June Squibb on getting her first starring role at 94: ‘I don’t have to prove myself any more’

The Oscar-nominated character actor has landed her first leading role in the action comedy Thelma – she looks back on a career beside the likes of Nicholson, Scorsese and Pacino

She lives in an apartment complex in the San Fernando Valley; she used to be on the first floor but her son, Harry,persuaded her to switch to a ground-floor flat to avoid the problem of stairs. When I was a young, good-looking actor in New York, I was constantly aware that people looked at me as an object.” She and her contemporaries had their coping mechanisms, “but I got mad too. And I saw friends were doing them, and so I went to my agent and said, ‘I think I should be doing this too.’ The next week I was auditioning for Woody Allen.” That film was Alice, a romcom starring Mia Farrow in which Squibb played a maid.

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