Sissy Spacek

Robert Redford’s co-star in The Old Man & the Gun, three-time Golden Globe winner Sissy Spacek shared the experience with HFPA journalist Ting Ting Xu – including how hard it was, sometimes, to concentrate on the character and not her handsome co-star….

Once again, the HFPA is at Comic-Con with a dedicated lounge overlooking the proceedings and steady streams of special guests, old and new, who stop by to chat about their current projects as they head to Hall H, meet fans or simply to people watch in what is the biggest cos-play convention in the world. The HFPA’s Scott Orlin and Mirai Konischi spoke to Sissy Spacek (aka Carrie) who returns to Stephen King material in Hulu’s Castle Rock.

By her own admission, Sissy Spacek is inextricably linked to Stephen King, owing to her starring role in 1976’s Carrie, for which she was nominated for the first of her six Academy Award nods; eight nominations and three Golden Globes would eventually also stack up. “Fifteen years ago, this girl who couldn’t have been more than 17 came running up to me, pulled her sleeve down and showed me a tattoo of Carrie holding the flowers, with the crown, but no blood,” the actress told the HFPA in a special conversation at Comic-Con 2018.

Anyone who watches the Golden Globe-nominated Netflix series Bloodline is familiar with the formidable Sally Rayburn, the matriarch of the extremely complicated Rayburn clan. That mix of warmth and menace, frailty and strength is the very essence of Sissy Spacek’s work as an actress, a talent that has shone through a long list of iconic roles, starting with her breakthrough moment as the shy, psychic teenager from Brian De Palma’s Carrie.

It's always a pleasure talking with Sissy Spacek, like visiting with an old friend. The Texas actress has assembled 8 nominations and 3 Best Actress Golden Globes – for Coal Miners Daughter (1981), Crimes of the Heart (1987) and In The Bedroom (2002).