On the #MeToo movement and comparing her experiences in Hollywood to those of her partner, actor Paul Dano I thought very deeply about my grandparents and their choices and what it must have meant to them to be in that position, and frankly, it helped me, I think, take one step in my personal maturation. I think it probably would have been really disrespectful to what we were trying to make if I didn't bring some of those thoughts and feelings to bear in filming those scenes. It's a strong personal connection to the material. I think that the parallels are right there, and I couldn't help but think of my own family history.
I felt like I didn't really know how I would begin to separate out my parts again and be able to use my body and myself to act.Īuthor Interviews What A Classic '50s Western Can Teach Us About The Hollywood Blacklist And your body is your tool as an actor, and so that felt really complicated to me. My love was totally funneled toward this new person, and my experience of my body was really different than it had been before. I was breastfeeding and waking up at all hours for her. It really complicated for me, because my body had sort of become totally at the behest of my child. My baby was about six months old when I started filming. She is making a roast chicken and making sure that her kids' clothes are mended properly when they go to school.īut it was really interesting for me to sort of be confronted with this archetype of a mother exactly at a time when I was a new mother myself.
It's really interesting for me, because I think when, culturally, we talk about, like, a "strong woman" that has become sort of shorthand for like someone who kicks ass and takes names - and this is not that person. On taking on the role of Bess, the mother in The Plot Against America, shortly after becoming a mother herself
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