Patricia Clarkson’s portrayals of complicated women “who aren’t 25” in indie films, pay-TV and streaming series, and on stage have offered her a rewarding second act to a career in which she once f…
’s portrayals of complicated women “who aren’t 25” in indie films, pay-TV and streaming series, and on stage have offered her a rewarding second act to a career in which she once felt trapped in suburban mom roles.chief film critic Peter Debruge as part of the magazine’s Critics Corner video interview series at the Karlovy Vary film fest, the actress said she was amazed to see Czech crowds thronging to her master class. “I thought there would be four people here,” Clarkson confessed.
The change from type casting really took off thanks to director Lisa Cholodenko taking a chance on Clarkson in her 1998 indie pic “High Art,” she said.“It opened up, it changed my career,” she said, “saving me from a very specific track I was on, seeing me a certain way. Lisa let me play a German lesbian heroin addict. That’s what happens. I tell young actors ‘just play a German lesbian heroin addict.’”“Everything is perception in our industry – so much of it.
“Cable television has allowed TV to breathe and it has allowed it to be unstructured and unconventional,” she said. “And that has drawn me to it. Shooting ‘Six Feet Under’ I felt like we were making little movies. Of course, ‘House of Cards’ […] has a very big budget, but it still felt independent to me.”
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