Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen play sisters at odds as their dad nears death.
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Director Azazel Jacobs, Natasha Lyonne, cinematographer Sam Levy, and Carrie Coon on the set of ‘His Three Daughters’.David GODLIS/Netflix
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Azazel has said that he wrote these characters with each of you in mind.
NATASHA LYONNE:It was very flattering.
And so that time was really, really special.
Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon in ‘His Three Daughters’.Sam Levy/Netflix
And I guess I began to question, how deep can you go?
So it was really healing on some level because it was a safe place to do it.
[Laughs] So I relate to that about Katie.
Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen in ‘His Three Daughters’.Netflix
I also come from Ohio, where there’s a lot of alcoholism.
That’s a real disease of despair, and that’s a real disease of stunted growth.
That was kind of the first access.
Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon in ‘His Three Daughters’.Sam Levy/Netflix
It was something that was fun to begin from.
OLSEN:Yeah, he’s right there, and so are the sounds.
OLSEN:We were like, “Oh!
Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne in ‘His Three Daughters’.Netflix
That’s why we’re here.”
And what he gets to explore is what makes it so specific to his voice.
He didn’t have an agenda, but he started somewhere and ended somewhere that surprised him.
And I think we also started somewhere and ended somewhere that surprised us.
I think we never actually had a very clear intention of how we would end.
COON:Do you know what I just remembered?
It was very revealing for all of us really.
LYONNE:Well, it’s because we have to take care of her.
That’s kind of the responsibility forever.
But she’s taking care of us.
COON:Then she was there with such confidence and singing the song.
So anyway, we were surprised a lot.
COON:It was all scripted.
We didn’t improvise.
LYONNE:Yeah, yeah.
What was that movie or TV show or play for you?
OLSEN:Opening Night.
COON:Oh, good one.An Unmarried Woman Jill Clayburgh.
OLSEN:That’s so funny; that’s on my list.
What a journey movie.
I could never get over it.
OLSEN:I’ve been on a big Bette Davis kick.
She created acting, in my opinion.
LYONNE:It’s pretty shocking what Bette Davis does is bananas.
LYONNE:I loveGena Rowlands[inOpening Night], but what about Peter Falk’s part?
What about Seymour Cassel’s part?
I was always like, I don’t think I’ll ever get those parts.
COON:I was raised on all those classic films with my grandpa, so I love Katharine Hepburn.
I found my way to Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis later, but it was like Audrey and Katharine.
And there’s that poster in our movie.
LYONNE:My house was so Pacino, De Niro.
Every single character that she created was so different from the next, and so melodramatic and so Fassbender-y.
LYONNE:It is a lost art form.Jack Nicholsonis a great example of when actors used to do something.
I love watching actors act.
