Chloë Sevigny Of course, love to work, but as a mother of a five year old she has other things to think about too.
“I am a work actress, but also have a family at home and am more rooted in New York now that I have a child, there is another level of consideration for what projects I take on,” the actress told IndieWire. For some artists, it may seem like a “working actor” as self -impairment, but for Sevigny, even though many of her priorities have changed, it is always about the work.
And the work that makes up her resume is iconic, after coming up in India film Pipeline at 19 years in authors Harmony Corin And director Larry Clark’s “Kids”, the controversial 90s that comes age of a group of New York-Tone-year-olds left to their own self-destructive units. Since then, she has been nominated for an Oscar Prize for her role in Kimberly Peirce’s “Boys Don’t Cry”, worked with directors such as Luca Guadagnino and David Fincher, became a TV foundation in Ryan Murphy’s extended TV universe and wrote and directed their own short films. Don’t forget her significant mouse status in the fashion world and commitment to indie film.
She is currently playing in two independent films, both out in theaters now: “Magical farm“The second feature of “Planet” director Amalia Ulmanand ‘Hello sorrow“The function debut from Durga Chew-bose, based on the novel by Françoise Sagan. (Otto Preminger first adapted the novel for his own film from 1958, in the lead role Deborah Kerr in the role now gives a certain culture. The act of the actress.
Chew-bose’s adaptation of the novel from 1954 follows Cecile (Lily Mcinerny), a young woman whose miserable summer with her father on the French sea is interrupted by an old friend of her convicted mother, Anne (Sevigny), who shows up to increase everything.
Sevigny had originally received the script from his agent and was interested in playing the tense, constantly Chignoned Anne because it felt like a new adventure. “They thought it would be a good opportunity to play more of one Lady It has a real sense of ownership and elegance, and she is more refined, Sevigny says, and pulls out Ladygiggles. She was glad to play Anne so she could, as she says: “Bring drama“While he has inspiration from his own mother and personal friendship.
But playing Anne, such an elegant power, also had unexpected challenges for Sevigny. “It was difficult because I had recently had a child. I was not so happy in my body. It was really difficult to get back to my body before the child, and I felt I wanted her to be more of this bird -like creature. And I was not,” she said. “There are this interesting moment in the mirror when I talk about my peasant hands. Anne wants to be something she is not in a way, but she is also like:” This is who I am. I will get the most out of it. “It was this projection of elegance on her that I didn’t really know myself.
Sevigny described Chew-bose as “a really light woman (who is) very tender and very soulful.” And worked with Mcinerny, in a breakout role on her second film after “Palm trees and power lines”, Sevigny wanted to give some support she could on the set.
“For me, it is only important as an actor, if I have any weight in society, if I can support other women, it is very important to me. I have three films coming out next year with the first and second time filmmakers and female filmmakers, and it has always been something that is important to me,” she said.
The guiding principle is what led to her playing Edna in Ulmans ”Magical farm“Where she plays a documentary and producer who offends a diverse video tendency. They go to South America to profile a viral musician, just to realize that they landed in the wrong country and have to improvise. Sevigny was cast after Interviewer Ulman for filmmaking newspaper About her first feature, “El Planeta.” Ulman’s debut beat Sevigny and later asked director Sevigny to be part of the film, in particular and wrote that part of Edna, hosted the fictional vice-esque show, for her.
Sevigny’s only regret about “Magic Farm”, however, was the scale on her part and how little time she spent filming in Argentina. “I just wanted to go for two weeks, and now that I made the movie I was as if I had given them more time I would have had a better part. So I learned my lesson, do you know what I mean? All other characters Get to have these real stories and love interests, and I was, if I had given them a few more days, I bet I could have it. He (Sevigny’s son) won’t even remember that I was gone. But it’s hard to be away as a new mother. ”
While the “Magic Farm” and “Bonjour Tredesse” will fight over Sevigny fans at the moment, she also has another well-known indie coming soon, the Sundance winner “Atropia,” From author/director Hailey Gates, about an actress working in a simulated Iraqi war zone. Gates is a friend of Sevigny’s who also played in Sevigny’s targeted card, “White Echo.”
“I went and did a day on it to support her. That movie is amazing. It’s so fun,” she said. And Sevigny also worked again with its often partner Luca Guadagnino -As her in the HBO LIMITED series “We Are Who We Are” and Cannibal Romance “Bones and All” -i his upcoming college-set thriller “After the hunt“With Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri.
While Sevigny has not yet seen the finished product, which looks at an autumn festival debut before they meet theaters in October from Amazon/MGM, she knows that the Metoo-centered film will be “polarizing” and will “ignite some calls.” And much like someone would be, she was beaten with Roberts. “Julia’s brilliant. She is such a movie star. I think it is a fantastic opportunity for her to really dig her heels to something really juicy again. And she was so lovely. I feel I had never worked with anyone as nice as her.
But in addition to working with Roberts for the first time, there is another limit, she may not yet be mapped: re -recording a previous role. Guadagnino will redo ”American psycho“Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, and who played Sevigny with Christian Bale. In Mary Harron’s 2000 adaptation of the novel about sadistics (and sometimes unpleasantly fun) Serious murderer Patrick Bateman (Bale), Sevigny played his secretary.
“When I heard it (Luca Guadagnino) maybe I did, I don’t know if he’s safe. I thought he was doing a World War image,” Sevigny said. (This week, then our interview, announced DC Studios that it will delay production at “SGT. Rock”, planned Guadagnino’s next film, until Summer 2026If the movie happens at all.) I struck him that I would play Jean again and that they do the reverse aging on me. I thought it would be something he would be involved and conceptually get the same actress to play the same role. But I don’t know. He said he would think of something else for me. ”
“Bonjour boredom” and “Magic Farm” are now in theaters.
