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Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

15 January 2009 12:59 AM, PST | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »

Laura Dern, Recount -- "The acting part of it was just delicious. Inappropriately fun. You couldn't believe you were having so much fun. But the research part I found terribly painful. Every day you felt like your mouth was wide open, just agape at all that was gotten away with." Laura Dern is describing playing Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris in the HBO TV movie Recount to New York magazine. While presiding over the 2000 recount of her state's presidential ballots, Harris was mocked by late-night comedians for her outmoded hairstyle, excessive makeup, and pompous bearing. Dern's challenge was to give the beleaguered politician a fair shake and endow her off-the-wall pronouncements with conviction. In one scene, she compares herself to the biblical heroine Queen Esther, who "sacrificed herself for her beloved Jewish people, and I'm doing the same thing," and Dern delivers the line with utmost sincerity.Dern made the »

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