Knowing that there’s nothing she can say or do that will return their beautiful son to them her realization that this is the truth of her life.” “And she’s come to that very wise and painful place where just keep the walls down, no attempt to rebuild them, if you will. She does not have any defense because there isn’t any,” Dowd says. “When she goes into that room, she does not anticipate or expect forgiveness. The only thing Linda can ever “do” is learn to live with the grief and with what her life has become. One of the most difficult things about a situation like Linda’s, Dowd explains, is understanding that there can be no forgiveness, no undoing what has happened. “Sue’s story is so painful and unimaginable.” “I just wanted some - for lack of a better word - friend who knew exactly what Linda was going through,” Dowd tells me of why she picked up the volume to prepare for filming Mass. Given that the events portrayed in Mass, though not based on any one specific event, are far from fiction, Dowd had a number of real-world examples she could turn to with this performance, telling me she first read Sue Klebold’s A Mother’s Reckoning, a memoir from the mother of Dylan Klebold, a shooter in the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Reed Birney, Ann Dowd © Bleecker Street Media /Courtesy Everett Collection.
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