“If I could dance in a drum circle with Joan, I’d die right there.”
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Finally, one of Tom Cruise’s star pupils from Top Gun: Maverick has made it to the Academy Awards. Monica Barbaro, whose portrayal of Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown elevated the biopic as a compelling romantic and industry foil for Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan, is among the nominees for Best Supporting Actress at this year’s ceremony. (We’ll be thinking of her line delivery of “you’re kind of an asshole, Bob” for a long time.) Barbaro, a first-time nominee for playing the middle-finger-flipping matriarch of folk, joins a roster that includes Wicked’s Ariana Grande-Butera, The…
