Film fans with a taste for quirky roles know Beth Grant as the pageant official in Little Miss Sunshine, the Sparkle Motion dance teacher in Donnie Darko, the town drunk in To Wong Foo and the West Texas matron who intoned, “It’s not often you see a Mexican in a suit,” in No Country for Old Men. Now the Alabama-born actress is raising hell at the Minetta Lane Theatre in Tricks the Devil Taught Me, Tony Georges’ portrait of a deeply unhappy small-town Texas marriage. Cursing a mile a minute, Grant’s character rails at her husband and grown son (who give as good as they get) while sneaking nips of bourbon and planning meetings of her prayer group. Broadway.com chatted with the live-wire actress about her excitement at returning off-Broadway after an absence of more than three decades.
You’ve done a ton of theater in Los Angeles. What took you so long to star on the New York stage?
That’s a good question! Don’t think I wasn’t trying. I came close on August: Osage County when Estelle Parsons got the part [of Violet Weston], but when I heard she was doing it, I ...
Sunday, August 14, 2011
What's Up, Beth Grant? The Film and TV Scene-Stealer on Her Hell-Raising Role in Tricks the Devil Taught Me
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