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Danielle Macdonald speaks with V.F.’s Krista Smith.
Growing up in Australia, did you always have your sights set on Hollywood? Did you come from an acting family?
No, my mom’s an accountant and my dad is in shipping. But I was obsessed with movies. When I was little, I used to make my dad stop at the video store on the way home. Then it became, What are we renting on iTunes?
What were your favorite things to watch?
Clueless, Legally Blonde, Mean Girls… they were the rom-coms of my teenage-hood. There aren’t that many anymore, so I’m hoping for a rom-com resurgence. There’s a lot of horrible stuff happening in the world—give me a good rom-com, please, I need to escape and have a little hope. I watch movies based on what I want to be feeling. And I never liked horror; it scares me too much, so I just avoid it.
But Bird Box is a horror film, and it’s truly terrifying.
I don’t think it’s terrifying, but that’s because I know everything that happens. When we filmed a scene where a car goes over someone’s head, they just had spaghetti sauce shooting out. It’s funny, because it’s so not a head. I kind of ruined the horror for myself.
In the past year you starred as Jennifer Aniston’s Dolly Parton-obsessed daughter in Dumplin’ and alongside Sandra Bullock in Bird Box. What was it like to work with them?
I remember hearing, “You’re gonna be working with Jennifer Aniston. She’s gonna be your mom.” It’s crazy, it’s not normal, but then you meet Jen and she is normal. Jen and Sandra Bullock may seem like these iconic, untouchable actresses, but they are just warm people who want to connect and work with you on a level that is equal. I learned you have to be equal on set; otherwise, you can’t find that connection.
You broke out at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 with Patti Cake$, and you returned to the festival this year with Paradise Hills, co-starring Awkwafina, Emma Roberts, Eiza González, and Milla Jovovich. Tell me about making this movie.
It’s this visually stunning film about girls at a wellness center, and you find out something more sinister is going on. While we were shooting, I stayed in the same building as Awkwafina; she was just about to have the most incredible year of her life and this was right after Patti Cake$, so we were like, “What is happening?” We really bonded, and the whole cast would go out together every Sunday for dinner.
I love how each of your projects is so different. Coming up you have the drama Skin, and after that you’re in the biopic I Am Woman, about the Australian singer Helen Reddy.
I know! Skin is a true, heavy story about neo-Nazis. But it’s really a story of redemption, and how people have to change. And in I Am Woman, I play the music journalist Lillian Roxon. She wrote the first-ever encyclopedia of rock and helped establish careers like David Bowie’s.
What do you want to do next?
I like challenging myself, and I want to do a bit of everything. When you get to play different characters, it’s a whole new part of you that you didn’t know existed.
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