<x0) The tragic story of the actress identified with Christmas

Irish actress Brenda Fricker has a number of excellent roles in her career, but for the vast majority of the audience, she will be forever a kind and generous foreign who helped Kevin McCallister on his Christmas adventure.

Along with its “pigeonry”, she took under protection the hero of Macaulay Culkin in the 1992 film, while “Liquid Bandits” followed him through the streets of New York.

In the final, he saves the situation by throwing seeds into Harry and Marvi's heads, causing the pigeons of Central Park to attack the perpetrators.

However, as it points out, the “sis with doves” deserve much more respect. Fricker gave excellent performances and was the first Irish actress to win an Oscar award.

In 1990, it was awarded the Best Actress in Role Supporter for “My Left Foot”, making history.

It later appeared in films such as “So I got an Axe Murderer”, “Angels in the Outlook”, “A Time to kill”, “Veronica Gurin”, “Inside I m Dancing” and “Albert Nobbs”

Despite her fine career, the actress discovered that after she was 70 years old, job offers almost disappeared.

In an interview with the Times, she described the feeling of “invisibility” that she felt when she entered the seventh decade of life. “Do not write roles for elderly women”, she said.

“Shakespeare wrote, but the new writers did not. There are so many interesting women with stories and experiences.” She even recalled a quote from Richard Harris, who told her that at the age of 70 you become invisible. On my birthday I thought he was wrong. A week later I realized exactly what he meant. It's weird. You gotta scream so they can hear you. I'm not out of work for any other reason. It just doesn't matter. ”

Today, Fricker faces serious health problems, which, she says, have forced him to stay in bed.

Without details, she admits that she lives “every day in pain” and feels constantly exhausted. In a recent interview with Guardian, the 80-year-old actress said she can breathe even when she talks. “I have never experienced such fatigue in my life.

I feel exhausted. I wonder if I'm gonna get up again. It's a terrible death, dying of pain every day. Perhaps I will live until 100 years of age”, she said in a bitter mood.

When she cannot sleep, she finds comfort in seeing the series “Real Housewes of Beverly Hills”, which, she says, entertains her more than anything else.

Despite the fact that her name has been identified with one of the most beloved Christmas films of all time, she has acknowledged that she does not particularly love Christmas.

In an earlier interview with BBC Radio 1, she said that living alone and in old age can be a dark time. She shuts off the phone, puts down the curtains, sees pre-registered programs and spends time with her dog.

The “is just another kind of Christmas”, she explained, adding that what really finds it difficult is not so many, but New Year's night. /Periscope/