“I was pretty much left to my own devices… I had to figure out how I was going to live, so for me, that’s where hustling stems from.”
For many, a new decade is all about beginnings, and if there’s someone who personifies that drive for change, it’s Julia Fox. A polymath for the new age, she has lived many lives in her 29 years on the planet: an artist, a designer, a photographer, a model, a dominatrix, a director and now an actor.
It’s no wonder then that New York directing duo the Safdie brothers saw Julia as their hometown go-getter for their newest project. Having met almost a decade ago when Josh and Benny Safdie first began work on the script for, the supporting role of Julia was perfectly suited to the real-life version. “Have you been spying on me?”, IRL Julia joked.
Moving from her early days in a Catholic household to spending her late teens as a dominatrix, Julia has had a paradox of an existence. The move from repression to autonomy is not an easy one, and as the actor explains, she once struggled with her esteem. “In Catholic culture I think you feel innately guilty”, she says. “But I think not being ashamed empowers you. I think there’s so much shame around a woman’s body, feeling like we’re responsible for other people’s reactions to women’s bodies.
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