A few years back, Dale Dickey walked into a department store looking for a dress. She was wearing what she usually wears — T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, no makeup — and a salesperson gave her the once-over and redirected her.
\n\n“I sort of was treated like Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty Woman,’” Dickey tells Variety. “It’s like, you’re on the wrong floor, dear. You want to go downstairs. I’m like, no, actually, I’m looking for a dress. Got a credit card and everything.”
\n\nShe tells the story with her signature rasp and infectious smile, encased in a talented aura. However, it is also, in miniature, like her more than four-decade-long career: being told which floor she belongs on, but still going where she wants to go anyway. This summer, roughly 75 films in and after countless television roles, Dickey received the first Emmy nomination of her career for Apple TV’s horror comedy “Widow’s Bay.”
\n\nBut, once again, her reaction was not vindication. It was merely a logistics problem.
\n\n“I’ve got to start the anxiety of trying to find a dress and get the hair and the makeup,” she says, “which for me, being a little white-trash character actress, is a little anxiety-ridden.”
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/