![]() ![]() RELATED: From 'Doctor Who' to 'Dual' These Are the 7 Best Karen Gillan PerformancesĮven with a major-and pivotal role-in the MCU, Gillan has never lost sight of the roles that allow her to flourish and leave an impact on audiences. Against the odds, Louise and Antonina forge an unlikely and mutually beneficial friendship that helps them both come to terms with the brutal reality of aging. On top of her living scenario and the plights of aging, Antonina doesn’t speak English, which poses its own challenges. Antonina is a Polish immigrant who has been dealt a bad lot in life, one marred by loss and, in recent years, a distinct lack of control in her own life. Antonina has every reason to be angry at the world, and she is. ![]() Louise’s situation is put into perspective when she crosses paths with Antonina ( Margaret Sophie Stein) in the hospital, and later in physical therapy. In older patients, a broken hip is often a death sentence, but for Louise, it is a minor-albeit painful-inconvenience that she can, in theory, overcome because of her youth. Having Louise break her hip, rather than an arm or a leg, is a truly genius narrative device because it forces her to face her mortality. After a night of drunken stupidity, Louise wakes up in the hospital with a broken hip, which is something you expect for an 82-year-old, not a woman in her late twenties. She’s jobless, single, and very nearly friendless because her misery makes her a burden to be around. At 28, Louise ( Karen Gillan) is floundering and devastatingly depressed. In its broad strokes, Late Bloomers is not entirely a coming-of-age story: it’s a brutally honest story about facing the unavoidable act of aging. ![]()
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