NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Marcia Gay Harden said in New York she relished the complexity of the character she played in Clint Eastwood's crime drama, "Mystic River."
Harden earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best actress in a supporting role for her portrayal of the wife of a sex abuse survivor (Tim Robbins) who may have murdered a family friend.
"My character has this moral dilemma unlike anything I can imagine, which is: If you suspect someone that you love -- your husband, your father, your child -- of a heinous, heinous crime, what do you do?" she explained to reporters recently.
"Her arc is an arc of disintegration," she continued. "It's not where you build something. She just unraveled, I thought, in the film. So, to play her I had to just imagine because, fortunately, I don't have life experience similar to that which Celeste did."
