![]() ![]() Her family wants to see her on their terms and she’s aware of that and feels like a failure and is judging herself. ![]() Kathy feels she has to, she’s trying to be a person she’s not right now. “I think so and I think intolerance, the fact that these characters don’t have much tolerance for themselves, I think there’s this question of who’s entitled to live the American Dream and what kind of citizens do they feel they need to be. This movie really isn’t a movie about good guys and bad guys, is it? It’s more about the decisions and compromises we make along the way. The novel was written in alternating first person so you have chapters written from Lester’s point of view, Behrani’s point of view.” If you just had that one central character, like for me, playing it from Kathy’s point of view I felt justified all the time, you know what I mean. Through that lens she looks unreasonable. You get taken out of Kathy’s point of view and thrown into Behrani’s point of view. But with the movie, because it’s telling the two stories together, it’s shifting your allegiance. If you look at it from Kathy’s point of view everything is kind of justified. I think that’s what happens, people are intractable at times in the thick of the situation. Sir Ben’s character as well, he hit his wife, he’s not very nice to my character at times. I didn’t think it was the point of the movie. I don’t think this was the time to feel vain in that way. “I didn’t think it was a movie to do that. This is a movie that’s really hard not to judge the severity of the characters’ actions? It was important that they be depicted that way.” They are characters on the fringes, the kind of characters we do tend to pass a lot of judgement on. But I thought that was the most intriguing things about the movie – these are not your typical American heroes. And then at times you think ‘I can’t believe you’re acting this way, you’re so petulant, you’re so childish, you’re so frustrating.’ So that was kind of scary, I’ve never played a character like that before. At times you feel you can really sympathize with her, she’s this lost little girl who hasn’t been loved and just wants a home. She spirals out of control, she’s spilling out of control and she acts out on people and she has such self loathing that she projects it onto everyone else and isn’t always well behaved. “What was difficult was also playing someone I always didn’t like. Was it hard playing such a downbeat character? That I have a hard time letting go of at the end of the day.” For me grueling is working on a project I’m not happy with. Making the movie was a wonderful experience for me because I liked the movie, I liked the script, I thought it was an interesting project to work on. That said, it is a tough ride when you’re going through it, but that’s different from making the movie. I found it as a great reminder to be grateful for the things we have. I want to go hug my son and I felt so grateful for things that I had and I did one of those ‘I’ll never do anything bad ever again, I’ll never get obsessed with the petty things I worried about.’ In a way I like that kind of movie and I didn’t find it depressing. “I have to say my experience when I walked out of the movie having seen it, I felt like I had been sort of shaken and I came out and thought I just want to go home and see my family. ![]()
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