The budding Australian actress talks sharing the screen with legends on Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix show, working with her celebrity crush, and singing show tunes with Keanu Reeves.
In a cast whose call sheet boasts equal parts fresh faces and living legends, Weaving stars as Claire Wood, an aspiring actress and the daughter of Hollywood powerhouses Ace and Avis Amberg . Weaving’s Claire is talented, no doubt, but struggles to find her own identity within an industry that her family practically controls. They have expectations of her, and in mid-1940s Los Angeles, those expectations were more of the “get married and have a child” variety.
He definitely has a specific style that’s very luxurious and rich. He really brings such a layered texture to every project he does. I was a fan of his sincewhich I think came out the last year I was in high school. It was hard to watch his stuff in Australia and the U.K., where I lived after that. In Australia there are like, four channels, and unless you have cable, you can’t really watch those shows.
I didn’t really draw anything from my family, because, luckily for me, we have a healthy relationship. I was actually going through the notes I was doing before we started, and I was looking at the fatal flaw of a neglected child, because her father disapproves of her too. Both of her parents are pretty neglectful, emotionally, and don’t believe in her. You know, they think she’s spoiled and big-headed. Maybe her father a little less so. He just wants her to settle down and get married.
Yeah! I was researching her as I watched the show. Because there is quite a bit of revisionist history, of course, but there are also so many characters on the show who are real people. And for better or for worse, things that were going on in the ’40s are still happening now.
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