On the latest episode of EW’s Awardist podcast, Hirsch chats about his whirlwind performance.
Plus, his costar Michelle Williams joins us.
Judd Hirschmay win come March 12, but even if he doesn’t, he’s already madeOscarshistory.
Judd Hirsh in ‘The Fabelmans’.Merie Weismiller Wallace/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
But in Hirsch’s eyes, his character is one we’ve seen before in manySpielberg movies.
“Or an animal or a robot or whatever, a dinosaur.
And I said, ‘No I’mthat!
It does include one.'”
But Hirsch’s Boris, a shady Eastern European (Russian?
You don’t even know why or how or when.
“She is a woman in her own right.
And that’s what blew me away: What a feast they had written for her.”
