Rose Byrne at the 2026 Golden Globes Rich Polk/Penske Media via Rose Byrne’s win at the Golden Globes on Sunday night was a victory for more than just her, writer-director Mary Bronstein, and the film they made together, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. In a year dominated by films in which women largely took a supporting role while the men got on with the important stuff, Bronstein’s film looked at the life of an ordinary suburban mom whose life is falling — no, flying — apart. The director doesn’t waste any time with niceties; Linda (Byrne) is at the end of her tether when we first meet her, carer to a demanding daughter with a mysterious illness whose face we almost never see, a black hole of want that brings to mind discomfiting images of Henry Spencer’s baby in David Lynch’s Eraserhead, another darkly comic film about the horrors of parenting.
