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<\/a>Austin Peay State University alumni, actor Jerry Winsett.<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cIt (\u201cThree Billboards\u201d) was a really good experience for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI think Martin McDonough is one of the best directors I have ever worked with. At heart, I\u2019m still a stage guy, and he directs like he\u2019s directing theater.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout his impressive career, Winsett has appeared in movies such as \u201cPaulie,\u201d \u201cBastard Out of Carolina,\u201d \u201cTorque\u201d and \u201cThe Red Cape.\u201d His television credits include \u201cNewhart,\u201d \u201cMr. Belvedere,\u201d \u201cCoach,\u201d \u201cThe Snooker Report\u201d and \u201cThe Inspectors.\u201d He has been in more than 450 theatrical productions, and he is well known for appearing in the original Dunkin\u2019 Donuts \u201cTime to Make the Donuts\u201d commercial.<\/p>\n
Winsett recently described his experience working with McDormand, saying, \u201cYou always worry that when you meet someone you really like, they will not to be a nice person, but she was one of the nicest people,\u201d he said. \u201cI had to give her a shot with a prop needle. The prop guy said, \u2018there\u2019s no way to mess this up,\u2019 but I was still worried.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winsett also has acted in several acclaimed films of the 1980s, including \u201cRadio Days,\u201d \u201cThe Purple Rose of Cairo\u201d and \u201cStardust Memories.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been blessed to be able to do what I love,\u201d he said. \u201cFor me, acting is a spiritual thing. I think that what we do is amazing. People come into this room, or they sit down in front of their TVs, or they go into a movie theater, and for two hours, they don\u2019t think about their mortgage, they don\u2019t think about the argument they just had with their spouse, they don\u2019t think about anything except what is before them. We get to take them out of their lives. It\u2019s difficult when people ask what you do for a living, but I just tell them that I bring people to life. I make a person on a page live, and in doing so, I brighten the lives of other people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN – During last year\u2019s movie award season, people kept praising the film \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.\u201d The movie\u2019s star, Frances McDormand, earned a Best Actress Oscar, while cast member Sam Rockwell took home an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. A few weeks earlier, \u201cThree Billboards\u201d received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,4680,262,512,825,32905],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-702","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26911,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26910\/revisions\/26911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – During last year\u2019s movie award season, people kept praising the film \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.\u201d The movie\u2019s star, Frances McDormand, earned a Best Actress Oscar, while cast member Sam Rockwell took home an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. A few weeks earlier, \u201cThree Billboards\u201d received a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. SAG voters might have picked the film because of a powerful scene, where McDormand\u2019s character attacks a dentist named Geoffrey. The actor in that scene is Jerry Winsett, a 1974 Austin Peay State University graduate.<\/p>\n![\"Austin](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jerry-Winsett.jpg\" "\\"Austin")
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