In other words, she “just went ahead and… did it!” - moved to the big city and reinvented herself, as her mother notes admiringly, although the transition hasn’t always been smooth. The role of Lucy Barton here allows her to span those two extremes, embodying a character who hails from deepest, poorest, darkest rural Illinois but has made it to New York City where she has married, had two daughters and is on her way to becoming a professional writer. A protean performer, she can just as easily do a sharp-elbowed urban neurotic (see, for instance, The Squid and the Whale or The Savages). Ever since her breakthrough performance as flyover-state refugee Mary Ann Singleton in the TV adaptation of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, Linney has worked her wholesome features to play seemingly “ordinary” women, often ones with darker sides or more complex characters than the blonde hair and dimples might suggest, for example in You Can Count on Me or The Truman Show.
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