Gender Fuck Thursday: Aunt Gladys Edition

While I haven’t seen “Weapons” (because I’m a horror weenie), I have seen Aunt Gladys – especially around Halloween when I saw so many incarnations of her on adult women, and men, in person. Still I was a little shocked to read that the character was played by Amy Madigan. That is what I call disappearing into a character. From “Field of Dreams” to “Uncle Buck” and “Female Perversions," she has put in the work over the years. Now, the 75-year-old consummate working actress has more than earned her hit.

And she credits the LGBTQ+ community with some of Aunt Gladys’s success. She told The Hollywood Reporter:

“As you very well know, the gay community has really taken to Gladys. That’s really great — especially in this framework of the demonization of anybody other than a cis person — for the trans community. I think they really appreciate Gladys’ drag and makeup and how confident she is. So that’s a really nice cherry on top of all this.”

And she looks amazing in a suit to boot. Yeah, it’s good when good things happen good people. Remember that?