At 94, June Squibb finally landed her first lead role in a feature film.he plays a senior citizen who gets swindled by a telephone "grandparent scam," and then heads out on a mission to get her money back., Squibb says a career in performing goes all the way back to childhood.
" used to take me around to bars, and set me up on the bar, and I would tap dance and they'd get free beer," she says. "I remember just loving it.", where she played Electra, a burlesque dancer who is covered in lightbulbs during the number. The audition called for her to do some striptease-type dancing. At the time, she had no idea what that entailed, so she called a dancer friend for advice.
"She said, 'Just dip. Just dip and bump and dip,'" Squibb says. "So that's what I did. And I got the job." It took many years for her to have her break-out moment. Squibb got her first TV role in the 1980s, and then her first film part in 1990.solidified her as a great comedy actress. She played the foul-mouthed wife of the lead character, played by Bruce Dern, and often stole the spotlight away from the acclaimed actor. Both she and Dern received Academy Award nominations for their performances.While her career may have been unconventional, she says she feels great about it.