First look: Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs trailer

It’s the movie that’s had Oscar buzz surrounding Glenn Close’s performance before we’d even seen a shot, and now the trailer has all but confirmed that the upcoming Albert Nobbs might as well just take the gong now.

The film, in which Close plays a woman passing for a male waiter in 19th-century Dublin, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in November and has been a personal role for Close, who also played the character in the stage play in 1982, as well as producing and co-writing the film adaptation.

The Tony and Emmy award-winning star told website The Daily Beast about her 29-year passion project earlier this year, and revealed in the interview that she experienced a similar identity crisis as a child when her family was recruited into Moral Re-Armament, a Christian cult group.

“That could’ve been part of [my connection to Nobbs] because to protect yourself you had to… That’s very, very complex. Any kind of group-mandated thing, for a child, is quite dire. It’s cult living where you’re told what to say and how to act. It’s very sexually repressive and yet you’re supposed to be remaking the world, but you remake the world in someone else’s eyes, so you give up your individuality. As a child, it’s catastrophic because that’s where you’re trying to figure out who you are. I think I still have elements of that.”

Check out the trailer for Albert Nobbs below and tell us what you think: