“He’s just so calm, and takes it all in stride.” “Ed was his usual Marlboro Man,” she laughed. But she added: “I haven’t shared it with my husband or my daughter yet.” (They were back in Venice Beach, where Harden lives, awaiting her return.) She had, however, been able to get in touch with Ed Harris, the film’s director and star, who’d also won a nomination as Best Actor. “It was great to share it with them like that,” Harden enthused in an interview the following day. That evening she flew to Dallas, the next leg on her journey, and was immediately surrounded by family and friends (she’s a Texas native). When Marcia Gay Harden got the news that she’d been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Jackson Pollock’s strong-willed, supportive wife Lee Krasner in “Pollock,” the Sony Pictures Classics release opening across the country in March, she was alone in a Denver hotel room, in the middle of a promotional tour for the picture.
