Just saw this on a Linda Cardellini site....
[snip]Cardellini's also reveling in the attention she's lately received for a different job, playing a waitress who gets involved with Heath Ledger's character in "Brokeback Mountain."
"It's amazing," she said. "I went to the Golden Globes for the first time, and the movie won four awards, and it's won so many critics' awards, and it's been such a beautiful and overwhelming... ride and I feel so privileged to be part of the movie."
And no, she wasn't surprised that a movie about a love affair between two men would have at least three decent roles for women.
"Knowing [screenwriter] Larry McMurtry and knowing Diana Ossana [his writing partner] now and seeing their work with Annie Proulx, I think that they're such incredible writers, the three of them, that there weren't going to be any parts that weren't three-dimensional, which I really loved about the script," Cardellini said.
"For my character, she was only there for a relatively short time [but] she really has a lot to do and a lot to do with the story," even though she's only briefly mentioned in Proulx's original story.
"I think the line is... that he's put the blocks to a little waitress who wants to become a nurse, funny enough," she said.
"I was thinking, 'Thank God, they created a character out of that.' "
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/13714424.htm