One of the biggest snubs of this past year’s Oscar nominations was the total ignoring of Mia Goth’s wonderful performance in “Pearl.”
She deserved to be part of the conversation this year, but not even Riseborough-esque grassroots campaigning would have worked in getting her a nom. The film and performance were just too “out there” for the token, very timid-minded, Oscar voter.
In a new interview with The Independent, “Pearl” director Ti West says Goth absolutely deserved to be recognized for her bats*it crazy work:
“In my opinion she deserved it, but at the same time, I don’t feel that it takes anything away from what she did. [An Oscar] would have just been a nice addition.”
Goth was phenomenal in West’s movie. Whether you liked “Pearl” or not, it’s very hard to deny just how great she was is in the movie. She brilliantly used multiple ranges of emotions to convey a character who was, essentially, a naive and delusional psychopath.
Oh, and even Martin Scorsese loved it.
Variety jumped on the Goth bandwagon, uttering the word Oscar in relation to her performance. And, know what? I was totally on-board this train. Goth’s work in “Pearl” was way up there in terms of peak female performances of 2022.
West, whose 2014 film “In the Valley of Violence,” is a criminally underrated work of the last decade, is deep into pre-production on “MaXXXine,” the capper of his trilogy that started with “X” and “Pearl.”
There is currently no release date for “MaXXXine,” but a production wrap in June does potentially signify an A24 release later this fall.
The next great Hollywood casting circus has already rolled into town, and it's not about who will play James Bond (still to be announced) but who will replace Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.