Ms. IVEREM: I think she may have the edge only because of the Golden Globe already, and there is this buzz that's building around her nomination that I don't hear for the other actresses, and maybe my hearing is subjective and - but you know, the thing I love about the nomination is that, you know, she's had a chance to, you know, show who she really is as an actress.

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"You are too young to know who she is, " I suggested.

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And in this film, she's playing this woman who is just - she's really just beaten down, and she just wants to, you know, save her son, to do the best for him.

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"You're about to find out who I am" and "You're about to be on national news", she is then alleged to have said.

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Add to this the fact that she is a social scientist, a professor of anthropology, and you have somebody who is likely to be a secular humanist.

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