Not to mention the ongoing tyranny of the braying, sartorially abusive Joan Rivers.
She has previously admitted how hard she found it to play abusive Kirsty Soames, who suffered violent fits of rage.
An ex-boyfriend of her mother's had become physically abusive, Ms. Jarrett said, and her mother pressed charges.
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Kathleen Turner as Beverly R Sutphin Mo'Nique as Mary Precious (2009) Violent, cruel and lazy, the abusive Mary is rendered all the more terrifying by Mo'Nique's powerhouse performance.
She attained further critical praise for her performance as the violent, sexually abusive Mary in Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009), which was helmed by Shadowboxer director Lee Daniels.
So the crucial moment when she stands up to the abusive Joe, smashing a pitcher against his head and telling him, "You hit me one time too many," wasn't as harrowing as it could have been.
Then there are the good ones, including Anna Michelle Williamss), a sensitive young woman so numbed by her brother's return from World War II as a shell-shocked veteran that she takes up with the jealous, abusive Billy.
Tennis had occasionally seen vile (Jimmy Connors simulating masturbation with his racket) and every so often it had seen abusive (Ilie Nastase berating umpires), but no one had ever quite witnessed McEnroe's combination of exquisite athleticism and almost maniacal explosiveness.
In a recent departure from the silver screen to small screen, X-Men star James McAvoy recently read the CBeebies bedtime story, a far cry from his role as the manipulative and sexually abusive Bruce Robertson in his 2013 Filth.
