![]() ![]() (Image credit: The Weinstein Company) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) It’s no wonder she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for her recurring guest role. Julia Stiles was only in Dexter for one season (but it helped change her mind about doing TV) and yet, after binge-watching this show, her character was one of the few side characters I remember so well, because her acting was phenomenal and her chemistry with Michael C. And damn it, I wanted to see more of her. Julia Stiles, during Season 5, portrayed Lumen Ann Pierce, someone whom Dexter initially was going to kill, but ended up working with - and eventually, formed a romantic relationship with. However, over time his secret starts to get exposed to more and more people, and cracks begin to form in his carefully crafted fake life. "I am lamenting when we are going to get back into theatres - it is an important way to connect and if we don’t have it is detrimental to humanity in the same way that not being in school is bad for kids.Dexter, for eight seasons, was a huge hit for Showtime, telling the story of Dexter Morgan, a seemingly normal man with a dark secret - he’s a serial killer who takes out menaces to society. “I am so very much enchanted by London and I feel like being on stage is like going to the gym for actors, it is important for your acting muscles," she says. ![]() She starred in David Mamet’s play Oleanna at the Garrick here in 2004 and “had a wonderful experience”. But now I think social media is a good tool if you are starting out because you have a voice and a platform and don’t need special access to casting directors to get through the door the first time.”Īt some point she would like come to London and act in a play here. It was still documented but not as much as it is on social media. As my life was radically changing and I was becoming more recognisable and scrutinised you go through trial and error making mistakes. “I used to think I’d dodged a bullet with social media. She’s changed her tune on whether it is better for actors starting out now. Intimacy coaches are a welcome revelation too: “I look back on work I’ve done with awkward love scenes and I could have benefited from that.” When 10 Things came along it was refreshing.īehind the scenes, “it was a boys’ club for the longest time”, but that is changing. She received her first pay cheque aged 11, for saying three lines in a fringe theatre production called Jungle Movie in New York where she grew up (the artist Basquiat was a neighbour). Stiles has been acting for long enough to be discerning about which roles she chooses. The production company hired a consulting company that works for the US military to Covid-proof the set. “I thought I’d just read the first 20 pages but they grabbed me.” Filming starts this month and she plays the child’s mother. She was resigned to not working until next year “because I am wary of Covid and thought it wouldn’t be fun” but then her agent sent her a script for a prequel to the 2009 horror film The Orphan. He has just invented a game called Pick a Pup, which is a combination of hide and seek and peek a boo.” ![]() “Keeping a toddler entertained was one of the biggest challenges of lockdown but once we accepted it and settled in it became kind of fun. ![]() During lockdown she became “a one woman nursery school”. Playing Georgina was a chance to dress up and she bought some of her outfits after filming, “but then Covid happened and now I don’t have anywhere to wear them”. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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