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In other words, it’s the sort of big, actressy transformation that awards voters flock to like catnip, and if someone like Charlize Theron or Michelle Williams had de-glammed to play Leslie, there likely would have been Oscar buzz from the beginning.

“The Palace Papers” portrays her as dramatic and actressy, so brusque with employees that several of them accuse her of bullying, while Kate is serene and kind to staffers.

At my toughest moments — it sounds very dramatic and actressy — but I would try to summon her in my funny little beige plastic-lined trailer.

Now 71, Close has referred to herself in interviews as a “late bloomer”, which may seem like actressy faux-modesty about a career that was hardly in the murk 30 years ago.

Try to think of great actressy moments in the cinema and the memory veers towards heartbreak more than happiness or fulfilment.