![]() ![]() “I am so deeply sorry for creating a work that has caused offense,” Scanlen said on Instagram. Scanlen recently had a brush with the perils of exposure when a short film she directed, the Sydney Film Festival award-winner “Mukbang,” was accused of appropriating Korean culture and showing triggering images of a violent attack on a young Black man. I don’t think my personality is as equipped as other actors I’ve met at that level of exposure.” Why is a big franchise scarier than playing a bald cancer patient or a murderous Southern baby doll for Scanlen? “The job follows you once you do it, and that’s terrifying to take on. “For the moment, I’ve been enjoying playing characters that are obviously very meaty, but it’s a place where I feel like the weight of the project isn’t too much on me, and I’m still learning from other people.” “I guess I’m a l little scared of those big franchises, and that’s something that with age I can probably handle a bit better,” she said. Night Shyamalan movie currently scheduled for July 2021 (production hasn’t started), Scanlen said she’s not necessarily interested in a major tentpole. I feel like I’m very much in control of how I want my career to be shaped now.” “That’s something I’m still not quite used to, but to have that autonomy and that sense of freedom has been nice. “For a long time, I was hurling myself at every project that came my way, so I do still feel like it’s a bit of luxury to turn things down now,” she said. Scanlen said that after HBO’s “Sharp Objects” and Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” she has the freedom to be choosy about her projects. I knew together we’d be able to craft who Milla was because she’s so limitless in what she does. ![]() I was going, ‘Who are you?’ When I circled back to her, it was because she could do everything. “She’s so unassuming,” Murphy said, “and then when she auditions for you, she’s so buried in what she does but it’s almost terrifying because you’re showing me all these different versions. Murphy said Scanlen was the first person to audition for “Babyteeth,” but she didn’t cast her for a year. I really did look like I was ill, but it was all this undeserved sympathy that I felt quite uncomfortable with in the beginning, but I quickly realized how important this was for the character.” I’d get pats of sympathy on the shoulder by elderly women,” she said. “Walking on the street, people would either look at me too long, or not want to look me in the eye. Shaving her head brought her a great deal of unsolicited attention in the real world. Martin Scorsese's Favorite Movies: 50 Films the Director Wants You to Seeįrom 'Reality Bites' to 'Fatal Attraction,' Keep Track of All the Upcoming Film-to-TV Adaptations ![]() Top Dialect Coach Analyzes Pattinson's Wild 'Devil All the Time' Accent: 'Fascinating Work' ![]() Night Shyamalan's New Movie, 'Old,' Is Inspired by a Graphic Novel About Mysterious Aging To suddenly defy that and shave it all off was quite empowering.” “I realized how much we hide behind our hair and how much we associate it with our identity. “I really changed as a person,” said Scanlen, who had to shave her head down to the scalp every day on set. In “Babyteeth,” Scanlen is a young woman who must grapple with illness as well as the rush of first love with a drug-addicted crust punk (Toby Wallace). She earned notice for her supporting roles, but “Babyteeth” announces her position as a leading force who commands the screen in nearly every scene of director Shannon Murphy’s heartfelt coming-of-age tale that reinvents the maudlin cancer indie dramedy. “I would probably be even more scared about doing a comedy,” she told IndieWire in a phone interview from her native Sydney, Australia. She was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy who turned into a cunning serial killer in HBO’s “Sharp Objects ” the terminally ill Beth March in “Little Women,” and now can be seen as a teenage cancer patient in “ Babyteeth.” At 21, Scanlen takes on characters who find transformative, sometimes sinister, power in affliction. ![]()
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