We chat with Parker Posey about her impactful role in BeauisAfraid, filming it alongside TheStaircase, and relying on Joaquin Phoenix's leadership on set:
Warning: SPOILERS for Beau is AfraidBeau is Afraid is the latest unexpected and nearly unexplainable odyssey from the mind of Ari Aster. But unlike his previous horror efforts, Midsommar and Hereditary, Beau is Afraid deals much more directly with motherhood and generational trauma even as the filmmaker blurs the lines between reality and fiction more than ever before.
Parker Posey: No, I don't like to be in the spotlight in that way. It's a little nail-biting, but that's okay. What's so fun about working with professional artists in this kind of caliber is that Ari is so special, and so is Joaquin. It's in their hands, really, so you just listen. We had a few meetings on Zoom, and I was pretty nervous about all of this. I was holding hands and touching people's sleeves and [going] like, "This is all going to be fine. And then going, "What an experience to go into unknown territory for me, and to do something so vulnerable and so funny.
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