Cinema legend Ellen Burstyn: 'It was never my intention to be a movie star'

Cinema legend Ellen Burstyn: 'It was never my intention to be a movie star'

By Ryan Gilbey

Aiming to beat Christopher Plummer … Burstyn, who hopes to be nominated for Pieces of a Woman. Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP

Ellen Burstyn is struggling to make herself heard above the sirens that are screeching across the city.

“I live on a road that’s very popular with police cars and ambulances,” she says down the line from New York.

She had been trying to tell me about the Oscars when she was interrupted by the racket.

If she is nominated in March – and, with the odds of her winning best supporting actress currently at 5/1, she almost certainly will be – this would make her the Academy’s oldest acting nominee, having turned 88 this month.

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