EXCLUSIVE
Glenn Close could lose the Best Actress Oscar to Meryl Streep or Viola Davis and still leave the Kodak Theater with a shiny golden statuette next Feb. 26.
And if she does, she'll be able to thank Brian Byrne, Sinead O'Connor, Skype and a confounding, makeshift recording process that linked her home in Maine with a kitchen in Ireland and a recording studio in Bulgaria.
That unusual, cobbled-together setup was required to produce the song "Lay Your Head Down." The gentle and evocative ballad, co-written by Close and Bryne, concludes the film "Albert Nobbs."
Close produced and co-wrote the film in which the five-time nominee stars as a woman in poverty-stricken Dublin who poses as a man to hang onto her job as a waiter.