‘Sharp Objects': Patricia Clarkson on Playing Amy Adams’ ‘Brutal’ But ‘Beloved’ Mentally Ill Mother
To say that Patricia Clarkson and Amy Adams have some mother-daughter issues on HBO’s new limited series “Sharp Objects” would be an understatement and insulting to Gillian Flynn’s debut novel. Of course, Clarkson wouldn’t know that firsthand, seeing as she didn’t actually read the book while working on the project, at the author’s request.
Instead, she came at the character of Adora Preaker with an “open heart” and an “open mind” and was ready to play the controlling, manipulative, self-centered mommy who just doesn’t understand why her daughter Camille (Adams) came back to her small hometown in Missouri to report on the brutal murders of two little girls.