The Australian actress, known for “Sharp Objects” and “Little Women,” on her first Sundance.
“I’m excited to see ‘Eileen.’ I’m good friends with Thomasin [McKenzie, who stars in the film alongside Anne Hathaway]. I love Will Oldroyd and I love Ottessa Moshfegh [who wrote the book]. Also, I’m looking forward to seeing ‘Mami Wata.’”
Scanlen was working on another film “Caddo,” in Louisiana when the producer, Kara Durrett, asked her if she was interested in hearing about another film she was working on. “I was just struck by the script straight away. It’s been a long time in the making, so it felt very tight. And it was just a very well crafted story, with surprises and twists and turns and a lot of nuance and complexity, such a complicated subject matter,” Scanlen says. “There’re so many films and shows about Christian fundamentalism, and the reality, in those communities, is that women often don’t have much power.
“I mean, it was quite jarring to finish the show and then, after a whole year of not working.…I think that’s what people don’t really see, is that there’s a lot of downtime while you’re trying for the next job, where you expect that you’ll get another job but it just doesn’t happen for you,” she says. “But things did start to change after the premiere. And, quite soon after that, I booked ‘Little Women.’ So it was just quite an overwhelming time for me to get used to all that.
In that vein, she doesn’t know what her next project is but isn’t in a rush to book something just to have a role lined up.
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