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Dear lord, I could not love this woman any more if I tried.
Hunt, who won the Academy Award for supporting actress for her staggering performance as male Australian-Indonesian dwarf Billy Kwan in 1982’s The Year of Living Dangerously, isn’t your typical action star, though she was recently awarded a Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress, Action, beating out Nikita’s Maggie Q and Chuck’s Yvonne Strahovski, among others.
“When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts,” she said. “These days, there are some teenagers out there who actually think that what Hetty is doing is cool and what Linda Hunt is doing is cool… I love that.”
I read this article and it only reinforced my opinion and everyone else’s just how awesome Linda Hunt is.