Once convinced she liked playing people 'with a secret,' the actor now enjoys her role as an everyday woman with many facets.
“It was just what I was looking for,” she says. In it, she plays Lily, a small-town vice principal and wife to William Henry Devereaux Jr. , a third-tier college English professor and world-class grouch. “For me, I’m telling the story of two people who are in the right marriage,” she says. “Then life rolls along, like life does, and puts them on a path that they weren’t expecting.”Advertisement
When you’re doing gun shows, it’s actually a smaller toolbox. It’s like flexing one muscle: how to show nothing, to be contained. “Lucky Hank” actually asks a lot more. It asks me to bring a bigger version of a person, to be silly, to be all the things that a person is. Actually, I got very scared in the weeks before we started shooting.
I think she didn’t want to be a vice principal. I think she had lofty goals. My mom was a high school French teacher, an excellent one, and she loved teaching. The other side of it was all the red tape, all the bureaucracy. All of that made her miserable. So I definitely thought a lot about that, about the love of teaching, and also the weight of all of the forms that have to be filled out. I think Lily’s life has become a lot about forms.
You’ve played a lot of unflinchingly quiet types. What’s it like to tap into your naturally bouncy, cheerful side? In dramatic pieces where stillness is what’s invited, there’s something restful about that. The cameras are rolling, we’re in this cocoon of the world of the movie, and I get to just be still. But it’s not as exhilarating as what “Lucky Hank” invites you to do, which is just to not control it so much, to just let life flow through you and see what comes out of your mouth. You never know what’s going to come out of Bob’s mouth. And to fire something back is exhilarating.
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