“Get to it!”
Once he got her, Payne wasted no time in helping Randolph prepare for the challenging part.
Then, the director humorously told her how to prep for Mary’s hard-earned cynicism.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph.Everett Collection
“He shipped me two big boxes of cigarettes with a note that said, ‘Get to it!’
Mary especially seems to rely on them to give her little breaks from her emotional pain.
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When viewers meet Mary inThe Holdovers, she is still reeling from the death of her son.
Without a deferment, her son was drafted for the Vietnam War, where he was killed in action.
Mary tries to work through her grief, and Randolph insisted on doing the character’s cooking for real.
“That was my deal breaker I had to do the cooking,” she told Ehrenreich.
“I need to be working with my hands.
On days when were eating in scenes, we didnt have craft services.
We really sat down and had dinner.”
But Mary can’t hide her pain forever.
“And then it was very quiet when I finished, and everyone was just so supportive and respectful.
They knew, the actors knew definitely Paul knew what that meant for me to go there.
And everyone’s very respectful of that.
Maybe there was a third one.
I don’t think so.
And that wasn’t even intentional.
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