“Too bad,” Arquettetexteda friend who’d asked her for answers.
Then she posted a screenshot of the exchange on Instagram and included the hashtag “#ToughLuck.”
“As an actor, you want to know, ‘What am I playing?
Where am I going?
What’s going on?’
You want to make choices that make sense,” Arquette said.
Still, she and Harmony are both getting comfortable with questions being left unanswered.
“I think we all want that in life, too,” Arquette added.
“Lumon is like that.
Lumon is any relationship that you have that’s confusing and you don’t know where you stand.”
How were you choosing roles and envisioning your career at the time?
That was scary for me.
I mean, I’ve always been very, very modest about nudity and sex and all of that.
You were also pretty young in “True Romance,” where you play a sex worker.
How did you feel about the nudity and performing your sexuality for that role?
I mean, there’s a lot of places that sexuality, I think, is pivotal.
There are also more conversations these days about havingintimacy coordinatorson set.
Have you noticed differences over time in the way directors have approached sex scenes with you?
I feel like, yeah, I do want that.
I’m really glad that they have intimacy coordinators now.
At a certain point, I felt like I would have to step in myself.
Turn the camera away.
Who’s going to be on the set?
What do we have to cover her?"
Sometimes it’s the crew.
Why put a young person or even not a young person, anyone in that position?
God knows a lot of people have been through enough.
And everyone kept saying, “OK, closed set.
There’s going to be nudity,” blah, blah, blah.
“Walk away if we don’t need you in this part.”
They kept saying that, and there was stilla lotof people on the set.
[Laughs] And then 15 people ran away.
That’s all I could say.
Was getting your due something that was a challenge early in your career, or even to this day?
Well, I wasn’t talking about myself when I gave that speech.
It was really impacting women of color.
It was like a double punch in the face.
Between the racism and the sexism, they were really economically being brutalized.
Yeah, for sure.
They don’t really have any money."
It all went to the guy.
That was a very common thing that you used to hear.
What’s a piece of advice one of them gave you that you’ve never forgotten?
Each of them were really amazing and they each gave you different kinds of advice.
We can move on."
And I was like, “How can you say that?”
He couldn’t even see it!
He’s like, “No, but you’re able to hear it.
It’s like, “Oh, wait.
I need to cut three more frames out of that.”
When you’re really in it, the sound is right.
The space between the sounds is right.
In both cases, subjects of these series later expressed displeasure with their depictions.
Do those kinds of reactions change how you would approach"true story” rolesin the future?
It’s not a nice story about them.
You know what I mean?
What made you want to jump from movies to web link TV?
And honestly, the parts were just really boring in movies.
It was like, “Hi honey, how are you?
I’ll see you after court.”
There was a shift in movies at that time, away from more artistic movies to mega-tentpole movies.
There was something challenging the status quo about it.
Before prestige TV and streaming, I would imagine doing connection TV wasn’t considered as respected.
Did you get judgment from people?
Snotty people would say to me, “What?
You’re doing TV?
Oh my God, you used to makemovies!”
You’ll see."
Yeah, you’ll see in 12 years when this comes out.
When you’re on TV, it’s really hard to jump out of that character into another character.
There were so many strange things about “Boyhood” that were beautiful.
But they’d still come back as a PA for us.
I think I saw it once right after.
What did you think?
I don’t even know.
I don’t think it’s a work of art by any means.
I don’t even remember who ended up editing it or what happened exactly.
Honestly I felt like it flipped off the rails.
You were an early adopter of the Peter Dinklage fan base.
I was a superfan.
Long before y’all were.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
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