![]() But when she arrived, she overheard through the casting office’s paper-thin walls that none of the other young actresses there that day were reading with an accent. Garner had recently made a film with a Missouri accent ( Tomato Red) and figured she’d use it on the audition. I’m usually like, ‘One bus comes, one bus goes, try to get on the next bus.’ This time, I was like, ‘I’ve got to get on that bus.’ “ If I don’t get this, I don’t think I can watch this show.’ And I don’t think like that. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, this character is amazing,’ ” Garner says. Ruth doesn’t appear in the show’s pilot, so Garner was given a mock scene to perform, a monologue that she delivers to her character’s cousin, Charlie Tahan’s Wyatt, about Ruth wanting a better life for him. Garner’s first act of reckless abandon on Ozark was an audition in front of a casting assistant in a small New York office in 2016. If I remember what I did on a take, I ask to do it again.” ![]() “If you’re hearing yourself talk, you’re not listening. “I never like the feeling of remembering a scene, because that means that I wasn’t present,” she says. She sticks her finger right into the socket.”įor Garner, becoming so lost in a scene that she forgets what she’s done on a take is the goal. You can see her face morph in ways that you cannot do if you’re self-conscious. “She doesn’t even remember what she’s done after they yell cut. “Julia throws herself into her work with an abandon,” Linney says. Lately Garner has been adjusting to her new public profile, one that is only higher after Ozark‘s third season received a viewership boost thanks to the timing of its release, March 27, just as homebound audiences were beginning months of lockdown-induced binge-watching (according to Netflix’s first-quarter earnings report, 29 million members watched the show in its first four weeks).Īfter winning the Emmy for Ozark last year, this time Garner is nominated for a season in which Ruth revealed a sensitive new side in a love affair, even as she plotted and spat out obscenities, including a memorable showdown in which she called Laura Linney’s darkly maternal Wendy a “bitchwolf.” Ozark collected a total of 18 Emmy nominations this year, including nods for drama series, actress for Linney and actor for Jason Bateman. In her next meaty role, she’ll play con artist Anna Delvey in the upcoming Shonda Rhimes Netflix series Inventing Anna. It’s been the same since I was 6 years old, which is a black turtleneck.”Įleven years after that audition, Garner has crafted the kind of career that capitalizes on her distinctive talent, one in which her daring, naturalistic performances often leave viewers wondering, as her director on The Assistant, Kitty Green, thought after seeing her on The Americans, “Who is that kid?” In The Assistant, which Bleecker Street released early this year, Garner almost wordlessly holds the screen as a subordinate to a powerful, abusive Harvey Weinstein-like industry figure. When you think about teen actors, you think of them having this gorgeous, luscious hair and being so pretty that you’re like, ‘You would never be the shy girl in high school.’ I was definitely not. “I was too natural maybe in terms of acting. “ is like, ‘You should do independent films,’ ” Garner says. It’s an outsider’s role that makes the most of Garner’s electric delivery, her pale skin and tight blond curls.īut back in that New York casting office, all her teen awkwardness was going to waste. Today, the 26-year-old, Bronx-born actress is most known to audiences as Ozark‘s best-loved character, swaggering Ruth Langmore, a poor young woman who wields improbable power in a criminal family full of men. Behind her are two keyboards that belong to her husband, Mark Foster, the lead singer of the band Foster the People, and just outside the door her English bulldog, Biz, is snoring. Garner is recounting the story over Zoom from a makeshift music studio in her home near Lake Hollywood in early August, shortly after she was nominated for her second Emmy for her performance on Netflix’s Ozark. “She was like, ‘Honey, you’re great, but you shouldn’t be here.’ I’ve never been stopped in the middle. On her third or fourth audition, “The casting director stopped me in the middle,” Garner says. Garner had recently begun taking acting classes to help overcome her shyness, and thought she’d try to book some roles. ![]() It was a failed audition for a Nickelodeon show at age 15 that steered Julia Garner toward her ultimate fate.
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