ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What do you remember from your first meeting with Maggie?
She said it all came together over one very intense lunch date.
And that’s what it felt like.
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And that’s just not what it was with her.
It was very real and very human and just exactly what I was hoping could exist in this industry.
That must bond the cast in a different way, that kind of summer-camp island situation.
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With Greece, it was just a hyper version of that.
We were so much in a bubble.
Do you remember any particular character notes for Nina that were light bulbs for you?
And there was something about that that I loved so much.
Do you think he means actually criminal, or just vaguely untrustable?
[Laughs] I mean, fairly criminal, I would say.
But it doesn’t feel uncomfortable or disempowered in this movie for some reason.
It’s such an interesting conversation to have, because it’s definitely not a dream.
But then in the reality of it, there’s cameras and people, and it’s not relaxing.
The thing was, it didn’t feel lecherous, Maggie’s eye.
It felt like she was observing and studying.
I think someone else’s eye could feel quite dangerous.
They’re like, “Oh, that is what my mother was like!”
or, “That’s my aunt,” or “I recognize parts of my wife.”
That is really cool to me.
And then I’ve also experienced young women really disliking some characters.
I can see the similarities.
The experience wasn’t the same, though.
This movie for me felt like Maggie offered me her hand and was like, “I see you.
In your mind, did you play out a future for Nina?
Do you think she stays with her clan and her man?
I have a gut instinct about her.
I think that that’s kind of what she has with her husband.
You don’t do this to my family.”
It’s ultra-protective, you know?
A lot of opening your heart.
[Laughs]Yep.
That’s my side hustle.
That’s her body to talk about.
