Judith Scott

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1965 age 0

   Born

2. 1994 age 29

   CreditThe Santa Clause

3. 2005 age 40

   CreditFlightplan

   CreditGuess Who

4. 2007 age 42

   CreditFracture

• DKDavid Krumholtz2 titles
• SBSean Bean1 title
• JHJames Horner1 title
• ZSZoe Saldaña1 title
• BGBob Gunton1 title
• LBLarry Brandenburg1 title
• JFJodie Foster1 title
• AHAnthony Hopkins1 title
• EDEmbeth Davidtz1 title
• FSFiona Shaw1 title

• The original is a very dangerous film. It came out in the heated moments of black people getting emancipation and getting jobs and being seen and heard and here was this movie with this amazing and talented actor who was going to meet his white parents in-laws. It was a very powerful film. That movie is so uncomfortable because it's so smart and there so much weighting and observation that all of the actors do, but you can feel the tension of the relationship. That's the genius of that particular film. In our film, we just take it to the next level. We have contemporarized it. We've reversed the roles and we just put in two more cups of humor.

  Judith Scott (American actress), CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think Marilyn is meant to anchor the film to round out the family. To give a point a view that says, "Okay, we have this element, Ashton, coming into our home, but we have other things that are important, which is the renewing of our vows. So I keep this other agenda running so that's the thing that gets disrupted by the arrival of this young man.

  Judith Scott (American actress), CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't know. I think that's why we needed humor. We needed a lot more humor. I think as times goes on, the less you see people laughing in cultures, the more dangerous it's going to get. In totalitarian cultures, you don't see people laughing. They don't have comedies in their movies or in their television shows. I don't know how this movie is going to play out. I'm very anxious to find out. I think it's a worthy film and the effort that all of us made to tell a particular story about a particular family and this event is important.

  Judith Scott (American actress), CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't think that Marilyn is the conventional wife role. She's got a great sense of humor. She's ferocious in the protection of her family and she's loyal and I think the way she's presented in this movie gives her a lot more range than you would see in a movie like "Meet the Fockers", which had Blythe Danner, who is a preeminent world class actress, but in that film, she's second fiddle all the way. I think Marilyn is not second fiddle. I think Marilyn is waiting for the moment to say her peace.

  Judith Scott (American actress), CC BY-SA 4.0