Sissy-fied: “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1980)
About this episode
The episode discusses Sissy Spacek's transformative performance in 'Coal Miner’s Daughter' as Loretta Lynn.
We ain't too dadgum ignorant to recognize that Sissy Spacek's Oscar-winning performance as the "Coal Miner’s Daughter," Loretta Lynn, is one of the most startlingly real transformations any actor has made in film history. Spacek doesn't "act" Loretta Lynn...she becomes the country superstar--from her humbler than humble beginnings as a backwoods mountain girl to the heights of wealth and fame as the big-hearted and big-haired "First Lady of Country Music". It is not only the performance...
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