The Canadian actress, 28, awarded at the Venice Film Festival with the Mastroianni, reserved for emerging artists, for her young cannibal of “Bones and All” with Chalamet
“I certainly wouldn’t be here if Luca hadn’t seen me at a time when I thought no one would be able to see me.” For a long time she felt transparent Taylor Russell, the winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Award, dedicated to a young emerging actor, for Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino
(Silver Lion for Best Director), where he starred alongside Timothée Chalamet. She went on to thank the director – «This is one of the best days of my life, wonderful. There are so many of my heroes in this room. I am grateful to Luca for believing in me, he is a friend, I love him »- until late at night. When, after dinner in the Sala degli Stucchi, the liberating moment of the video call with Chalamet who was cheering for them from a distance arrived.
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Twenty-eight years old, Canadian from Vancouver, an eventful youth in the wake of his father, actor, only daughter with two male brothers. “Ours was not a rich family, my parents struggled. They moved us often, we changed something like sixteen houses. As a girl I daydreamed – she said -. I felt I had a secret life separate from other peers, I felt I had to protect myself. As if it were a bit me against the rest of the world ». Among the holds to cling to, Patti Smith, of which she is still a big fan. She came to acting after training as a dancer. A few minor roles on TV, from medical drama to teen movies, up to Judy Robinson, for three seasons, of the Netflix series Lost in Spacefollowed by Escape Room. The jump comes with Waves by Trey Edward Shults, where she is Emily Williams, the role she fought for with her teeth. “I wanted it so much, I knew that girl, I knew I could play her.” You were right to insist. For that interpretation of her she won the Gotham Award for emerging artist, the same one won before her by Chalamet, two years her junior. It was there that Guadagnino saw her and thought that she might be perfect for Maren, the young cannibal of Bones and All. «A magnificent and mysterious character. He is a person who finds himself living on the edge. He tries to find his place in the world, and at the same time tries to understand who he really is, he doesn’t want to live in a lie “, he explains). Raised between two cultures, a black father, a white mother, she too experienced the fatigue of feeling judged. “I was too clear to be accepted by black girls and even white girls rejected me because they considered me different.” In her eyes, the story that the screenwriter Dave Kajganich wrote starting from the novel by Camille DeAngelis is to all intents and purposes a love story, as Guadagnino claims. Bones and all – produced by Lorenzo Mieli among others for The Apartment, to be released on November 23 with Vision – was considered a romantic film, not a horror. The meeting between the last two, like Maren and Lee, has something sweet about it. An impossible love? Which love is not? ». Taylor Russel and Chalamet collaborated and sought together the humanity of their magnificent monsters. But the actress has not lost sight of Guadagnino. Direction is on its horizon. You have already debuted with a short, The Heart Still Hums, directed four hands with best friend, Savanah Leaf, on some poor young mothers of Sacramento. “I’ve always wanted to direct when I’m on studio sets.” From Guadagnino, in fact, there is something to learn.
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