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And I felt like the audition went well, but I was just so nervous.
But it made it worth it in a way.
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And I never felt like…
I just didn’t have the courage.
Jessi is a fierce character, but she also has to go through these stages of grief and loss.
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She’s been one of the best characters I’ve ever played.
What changes today is that I have more experience, so I am better than when I started.
It would’ve been amazing for my development as an actress, but for my personal development as well.
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In fact, I searched for roles like this.
And cinema many times feeds back into reality and the other way around they nurture each other.
I think this film allows us to connect with these people, these bad people.
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It’s funny how fiction allows you to do that.
And how interesting to connect with the perverse and start thinking about the possibility of transformation?
I don’t like to imagine all of the terrible things that we think he’s done.
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On singing in the film
GOMEZ:It was extremely vulnerable.
I wanted to get lost in their sauce.
And I’d be nervous.
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SALDANA:I don’t like to hear my voice when I’m working… And then I get in my head about it.
I’m very insecure.
Maybe it’s why I like to play these characters where I try not to see myself in it.
But one thing that Jacques wanted was to have a live recording of it.
If I had a band maybe it would be like Duran Duran.
Maybe my genre is more like rap I feel like that’s more aligned with me.
I think maybe he didn’t want all of that emotion.
[Laughs] But I think at the end of the day, it all came together really nicely….
If they ask me to record a heavy metal album, maybe but a musical, no.
But I was thinking to myself, I got to step up my game.
SALDANA:She was.
This was a really important journey for her, and we felt that.
Why are you putting it here?
Jacques loved her energy and how she brought from Emilias past and Emilias present.
We were improvising a scene in the van, and she goes through this whole monologue.
And her eyes, her stare became dark.
And then as soon as she went in, she totally came out.
And I was like,that’s Manitas.
And she did time and time again.
For a moment I forgot that I worked on this film.
I haven’t watched it since because the feeling that I got from it was so powerful.
It was so emotional that I don’t want that to change.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
you could watch Rashida’s full speech below.
“You would have been quite wrong.
Something I found annoying.
I found that annoying and, frankly, selfish.”
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A wasteland of talent.
Barbara hurts and celebrates with Margaret, while also grappling with her new life as a stay-at-home mom.
One shining example of McAdams deft handling of her character is the scene in which Margaret wants a bra.
Yeah, welcome to womanhood!
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