“But if a funny, good one came along, I would totally do it.” Jimmy Warden and Samara Weaving at the “Cocaine Bear” premiere Getty They’re hard to get right these days,” Weaving said. He’s really inspiring.”Īnd while Weaving is ready to do a more straight-forward romance story soon, the “Babylon” actress admitted it’s difficult to find the right rom-com script. “It’s just hard. We didn’t get that much time to hang out because he was working so much, but when we did, we had a great time. “He’s so talented and such a hard worker and set a really good tone for the rest of the cast and crew. It was so easy to fall in love with him,” she explained. Working opposite Harrison as his onscreen love interest was easy, thanks to their effortless chemistry, said Weaving. “He’s incredible. I was like, ‘That is the most risky thing a woman could do back then and she’s doing it and she doesn’t care.’ I think she’s a mixture of naïve and so brave. “When Marie-Josephine gets up on the table and sculls a beer and is like, ‘What about women?!’ I was sold.
There weren’t any period tropes that she fell into or stereotypes,” Weaving said. “Every character in it is so well-rounded and felt really 3-D. Weaving noted that it was “Atlanta” writer Stefani Robinson’s script that inspired her to sign on to the historical film centered on the lesser-known story of composer and colonel of the first all-Black regiment in Europe, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, as portrayed by Harrison in the feature. and Samara Weaving in “Chevalier” screenshot/Searchlight It was like full Belle!” Kelvin Harrison Jr. The “Scream VI” star added with a “Beauty and the Beast” nod, “I felt like a Disney princess, especially in that yellow one. So that was really influential to just remembering that.
To go to the bathroom, you had to have someone help you, which is what they did back then. “You had to rely on someone else to get dressed. Oliver Garcia is a genius, and Roo Maurice, the hair and makeup designer, had the best tools for getting into character because it was such a good reminder of how women just had no autonomy over anything, because you couldn’t move,” Weaving said. “Corsets are intense but it was really helpful. Portraying Marie-Joséphine in “ Chevalier,” set during the French Revolution, proved to be more of a physical challenge for Weaving, given the restrictive costumes of the era, which paralleled the rebellion of her character driving the suffragette movement. It’s a little less stressful for me to do them justice.” I’m nervous about Holly Madison, because people have their own idea about who she is, whereas period pieces, people don’t know who these women are and there’s no footage of them. She added, “And, I mean, Holly Madison, are you joking? She’s so cool.
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