![]() ![]() Keane was the painter behind the big-eyed waifs that were. After that, I felt I understood the era and the beginnings of feminism, so I saw Margaret from a very different perspective. LOS ANGELES In 1964, Margaret Keane was among the most famous living artists in the country, only no one knew it. And then I played a character in The Master, another really powerful woman from the era, who stood behind a man and didn’t come forward. in a time when we didn’t speak out publicly against 'our man'. ![]() I was able to identify with her as a woman in a way that I wasn’t before. "When I came back around, I saw Margaret as a completely different entity – as a mother. Margaret Keane: The Big Eyes Behind the Canvas. She revisited the script after the 2010 birth of her daughter, Aviana, with her actor fiancé Darren Le Gallo. I was looking to play someone who I felt was more confident, more grounded." ![]() "That’s my fault and not the fault of the script or the writing. "When I read the script, I saw her as more of a victim, as one-dimensional," says Adams. Amy Adams is slightly embarrassed to admit the reason she demurred when first offered the role in Tim Burton’s Big Eyes of painter Margaret Keane – whose paintings of big-eyed waifs were a cultural phenomenon in Fifties and Sixties America, but whose husband, Walter, stole all the credit. Burton’s latest film, Big Eyes, chronicles how the late con artist Walter Keane took credit for his wife Margaret Keane’s iconic paintings, which depict children with hauntingly over-size eyes. ![]()
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