The absent father who returns to try to make up for lost time. A father who was also a successful film director and who now not only tries to reconcile with his daughters, but also wants one of them, a theater actress, to star in his new film, based on their own lives. The daughter, of course, still angry, rejects him and he replaces her with a Hollywood star. It is the premise of (released in theaters December 5), a new film by the director of the triumphant , the Norwegian Joachim Trier. Stellan Skarsgård is the father, the actress sister; Inga Ibsdotter, the other sister, and (Georgia, 27 years old), the movie star.
“I know, it’s a role with a lot of metacinema,” Fanning laughed at the last Cannes Film Festival, where the film took the Grand Jury Prize in what seems like the beginning of a long season of recognition. “It was a bit the same, Joachim called me, I was in New York finishing filming and I immediately went to New Zealand to film Predator: Badlands (also now in theaters), I felt like Rachel, my character, meeting a European director between big productions. It’s not that I’ve had his career, I haven’t done as many. blockbusters —Predator It was something new for me too—but I understand why she feels that way,” he explains.
“This way” means trying to be taken seriously by abandoning Hollywood for a moment, to create her own talent and “a door to open.” “She realizes that she is a good actress, but she is not the best for that role and that happens, it has happened to me, I have never abandoned a shoot, but I have asked to be allowed to play another role in which I saw myself more,” confesses Fanning, who began working when she was only three years old playing the young version of her sister Dakota, in . Fanning also recognizes herself in Rachel listing those films, “those doors,” that have been steps to continue climbing to the peak moment she is experiencing now. Thanks to Women of the 20th century, For example, it has reached Valor sentimental: “The director, Mike Mills, recommended Joachim to me,” he reveals and continues his list. “Super 8, which I made when I was 12, it was the film that made me known, although it had been going on for a while, until then everyone confused me with Dakota,” he remembers with a laugh. “And , which I already did when I was 17, was my step to something more mature that I did with the idea of surprising by showing a more provocative and twisted side, which is what I wanted to repeat as Catherine the Great in The Great… And it opened other doors for me that I didn’t expect,” she admits. Like this one: at the doors of the Oscars for a European film, playing, in some way, a version of herself.
