Oscar nominations will be announced on Tuesday, but “Origin” star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor sounds like she’s already moving on from awards season.
Instead, she’s focusing on how the film is impacting audiences.When asked what it would mean to hear her name called for her second Academy Award nod, Ellis-Taylor paused to thoughtfully consider her words.“That part of it… that ship has sailed and that’s alright,” Ellis-Taylor said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible while at the Sundance Film Festival.
“What I’m excited about is my family members came out in droves to see that film on Friday.”“Origin” — filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” in which Ellis-Taylor plays the author — opened in limited release this weekend, grossing $875,000 from 125 screens.
It had a brief Oscar qualifying run last December.“It has been…it was overlooked,…