![]() All I did was hang out as this character, and get up in the morning and do whatever I think is best to get me in the place to play her, and I don’t get sick of her, I don’t get distracted, and I just want to camp out in that world.” There is nothing that feels better than that. ![]() “It was Los Angeles, but it was a similar feeling to ‘The World to Come’ in that it just felt so incredibly focused. The lightning-in-a-bottle experience of making “Inherent Vice,” Waterston said, is the kind she’s been chasing ever since. “Inherent Vice” Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection But without a doubt, Paul and Cassandra Kulukundis gave me my career. She said she learned a “great deal from playing lawyer number three in ‘Michael Clayton,'” prior to “Inherent Vice,” “where you’re on set in a way where people aren’t really paying attention to you, but you can watch everything. But even before emerging as the secret-weapon star of films like the “Harry Potter” spinoffs, Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant,” and on HBO’s popular 2020 miniseries “The Third Day,” her earliest experiences were most formative. I didn’t do anything.”), playing Chrisann Brennan in “Steve Jobs,” and as Elisabeth Moss’ bestie on edge in Alex Ross Perry’s Polanski-esque thriller “Queen of Earth” ( Manohla Dargis called her a “Modigliani in motion”). Waterston carved her way through roles such as on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” (“I wasn’t in that at all. ![]() Paul Walter Hauser and Greg Kinnear Immediately Felt the ‘Pressure’ Filming ‘Black Bird’ It’s a tough way to live, but I had a lot of amazing experiences that way.” I was getting to that point where I thought that would be it. “Sometimes a TV show or a movie would let me have a few lines, but mostly I did theater. “I was making my way like a scrappy underdog actor in New York does, job to job,” she said. Talking to Waterston, one doesn’t get the sense that she leaned on nepotism just because her father, Sam Waterston, has been a celebrated actor for decades. “Paul really did pluck me from obscurity,” she said of her breakout role in the shaggy 2014 Thomas Pynchon adaptation, where she starred as the elusive femme fatale Shasta Fay, ever out of Joaquin Phoenix’s reach in a haze of pot smoke and noirish wiles. It’s easily career-best work from this focused, fiercely intelligent performer who first wowed audiences in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “ Inherent Vice.” The ravishing romance takes place in 19th-century upstate New York, where two women (Waterston and Vanessa Kirby) cobble together an intellectual and erotic connection amid the soul-crushing frontier. But even from a virtual interview out of her London home, close to where she’s filming the third “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” the actress is poised, curious, and overflowing with openness about her experience filming “ The World to Come.” Feature films totalled 135 days.Katherine Waterston is as fatigued as anyone by what she describes as “the absence of flow” created by a life lived on Zoom. Overall off-lot production in Los Angeles last week totalled 658 days, up 11% over the same week in 2012, according to FilmL.A. Universal came on board to develop the horror-thriller on Monday. “Purge 2” has received the California tax credit conditionally last week for Blumhouse Prods. Georgia, Louisiana and New York are the top locations for independently financed films, he added. The latter three films received the California California’s Film and Television Tax Credit, which is smaller than those of rival states with a maximum of 25% of the budget.Īt the Producers Guild of America’s Produced By conference on Sunday, Film Finance exec John Dellaverson said only 87 of the 586 features films bonded by Film Finance over the past six years have been shot in California. Other recent shoots in Los Angeles the year are an eclectic mix - “Bukowski,” “Captain America: Winter Solider,” “ 10 Things I Hate About Life,” “ Dark Skies” and “ Walk of Shame” - with the total paling in comparison to the activity level in the mid 1990s before lucrative incentives began luring production elsewhere. The Zac Efron-Seth Rogen comedy “ Townies” was one of the most active Los Angeles film productions this year with 74 days in the four weeks before it wrapped last month.
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