European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Sissy Spacek on acting doing whatever works by Wayne King new York times a acting says Sissy Spacek in ,n.c., with a tilt of her Strawberry blon head is a funny  last word comes out almost but not quite thang. That is the Way a real Texas accent sounds almost but not quite Southern certainly not the Broad appalachian wind song Frost on the ridges that Spacek did to perfection when she played Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner s daughter. Her real delivery is quicker twangy bluebonnets and banjos. It is the Way Spacek talks. She would t think of changing it. She says git and Calls a face cloth a Wash rag. This last is revealed when Schuyler Spacek s 4-year-old daughter comes crying having managed to stick the Corner of a coat Hanger in her Eye. Here Honey put this Wash rag on it. There. Better  Schuyler is not Hurt but she is tired and Cranky having stayed up later than usual for the last week attending Bible school at the Church. Spacek is even smaller than she seems on the screen 5 feel 2 inches tall. Her eyes Are that Pale Blue so familiar to american moviegoers by now eerie innocent laughing pained sensual. She is talking about the Sissy Spacek acting technique doing whatever works. I went to acting school in new York she says and laughs. I was you know. 20." Twenty. I went for tout six Montti. I always laughed and Sari i Learned Rne walking from my apartment on ism Street across 14th to Lee Strasberg s than i did in the class. A remember everybody having to drink an Emo jewry cup of Coffee you know sense memory. I thought it was great but i was never Able to apply any of that right away. I Felt so Normal compared to everyone else who was in class with me letting out their emotions i Felt maybe i was too Normal. I was working really before i knew exactly what i was  this year in three very different movies Spacek s talents As a largely self schooled method actor Are being Given their fullest expression yet. The first to Els Are Blue directed by her husband. Jack Fisk was released in april to lacklustre reviews despite the casting of Spacek and Kevin Kline in the Lead roles. Spacek plays a Home wrecker a woman who resumes a love affair with a Man who has since married and has a Young son. It is a measure of her dramatic Appeal that when the troubled husband played by Kline chooses Home and family Over his Lover the feeling of loss that Spacek s character endures is shared willingly by the audience. The other two movies adaptations of the highly acclaimed Broadway productions night. Mother and crimes of the heart Are unusual and in some senses precarious departures for a successful film actress. Both Are faithful to the stage versions which won pulitzer prizes and both Are decidedly offbeat. They Are in Short Ideal vehicles for the serious stage actor. Night Mother is a two woman production co starring Anne Bancroft. It is the Story of a Young woman who calmly informs her Mother with whom she lives that she intends to commit suicide that evening. Crimes of the heart a blackly humorous gothic tale of the Impact of a murder on a closely knit Southern family to be released in the United states at Christmas is considered a Gamble of equal proportions by studio insiders despite a cast that also includes Jessica Lange Tess Harper Sam Shepard and Diane Keaton. Saturday october 25, 1986 Spacek did both movies out o a sense of nostalgic longing. It was not until Carrie that people started watching what i did. Saying. What s she going to do next once you be proven yourself people expect a certain amount a level and More and More you try to outdo yourself. I was just doing these two films for myself. I was trying to get Back to the old Days Low budget. I wanted to get Back to something challenging and  on a hot summer afternoon in the Small North Carolina coastal town of Southport Spacek offered a mental sketch of babe Magrath during a break in the shooting of crimes of the heart.  said Spacek babe is the kind of girl that has a dinner party and the Centrepiece is Beautiful and her outfit is meticulous and her hair and her nails Are meticulous. Everything s  pause. Then she forgets to put the roast in the oven she hoots with laughter. She clearly identifies with babe Magrath Jotrelle one of the Magrath Sisters of Hazelhurst miss., the one that Granddaddy Magrath called his Little Dancin sugar Plum who ultimately blows a sizable Hole in her husband. Zachery because she just gels tired of looking at him. Spacek s Choice of roles is nothing if not idiosyncratic. Her four Academy award nominations for Best actress have been for characterizations As diverse As Carrie the strange psychokinetic teen Ager Beth Horman the wife of an american journalist in missing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner s daughter which won her an Oscar in 1981 and Mae Garvey in the River. But she traces her professional turning Point to badlands the 1973 Independent production written directed and produced by Terrence Maliek. The movie starred Martin Sheen As a psychotic mass killer loosely modelled on Charles Starkweather and Spacek in her second film role at age 23, As his empty eyed Girlfriend. On the set Spacek met a Young Art director n med Jack Fisk badlands attracted unusual critical acclaim despite failing at the Box office. It was an important Victory for a Young actress whose screen debut had come a year earlier in a forgettable sex thriller called prime Cut. After badlands i thought i have to maintain a certain level of filmmaking " she says striking a mock Marlene Dietrich pose. I Only wanted to work on meaningful  Spacek s life with Fisk and Schuyler is unreservedly non Hollywood. Two years ago they sold their House in Topanga Canyon the High priced los Angeles address of Many movie stars making a Virginia farm their full time residence. There they turned their energies to raising Quarter horses dead smart and Quick As cats. It s not a Hobby says Fisk who Breaks the horses himself working without a bridle just a Saddle and a prayer. Spacek seems to draw the farm and the soft Green Hills about her like a cloak taking Refuge in her family. Local friends the smell of her own bread baking the Garden she tends herself. She is learning to make pottery throwing on a foot driven wheel. I was having a manicure the other Day a manicure and a pedicure and they asked me How i wanted my nails done and i said do pm for a Gardener look at this Zucchini she says brandishing a huge Bright yellow specimen. You know i love cities new York that s a constant and always will be. But being Able to go to the Gas station and you Don t even have to say. Charge it you just go i Blue fill it up you can always depend on Blue. You know if it s snowing and you run off the Road Blue will come get you. Your word s your Bond and you know people at the Coop and. It s something i experienced As a kid knowing everybody and charging things and having somebody pull you out of the ditch. When i was doing night Mother \ remember the first time that Schuyler came to the set and Hare i was wearing Gray and my hair was severe and tied Back and dyed dark and my eyes were downcast no makeup. I thought i just look horrible and eel horrible and then this gorgeous mile baby with Little Rosy Cheeks and red hair and freckles comes running and \ says Mommy Mommy and it was like life. You know your career is just your career. Your Lifa is your  coming from Spacek that somehow does t even sound corny. The stars and stripes is