Zoe Kazan on Fighting Donald Trump, Living With Anorexia, and Her Relationship With Paul Dano
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Kazan, winning rave reviews for her role in Love, Love, Love, is also fighting the president-elect’s bigotry, combining acting and writing, and speaking up about her eating disorder.
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The pun is truly unintended. Shes very thorny, I said to Zoe Kazan about Rose, the character she is playing in Mike Bartletts acclaimed play, Love, Love, Love, at New Yorks Laura Pels Theatre.
Bartletts brilliant comedy-drama follows a British familyin which Kazan plays the daughterthrough 40 -plus years of big and small history, and the big and small hurts that shape it, informed by the political and cultural cross-currents of intervening eras.
The gloriously familiar pop music between acts will gladden any music fans heart, while the baby boomer generation, and the Gen-Xers they birthed, are both celebrated and mercilessly satirized.
On stage, the 33 -year-old Kazanwhom I satisfied backstage on a recent weekday evening, before a performanceskillfully represents an all-too believable stroppy, anguished tangle of teenage energy, whose selfish, lackadaisical mothers cannot consider the harm they are doing to her and to themselves.
Rose, who we both laugh at and feel for, comes to be a moral fulcrum for the craziness she grows up around, her eventual maturity seeming careworn rather than warm.
Kazans English accent is impressive, and she says that Bartlett helped in rehearsals by asking her to put more embarrassment into her body when I was youngthat was all I required, the key. Later she becomes more at ease with herself. She is very forthright. She isnt doing a lot of mitigating behaviour to get her route, she is not playing sweet. She doesnt have game.
Although Kazan has appeared in mainstream fare like Its Complicated, she is best known for roles in indie movies, including The Savages, Meeks Cutoff, and Ruby Sparks, which she wrote the screenplay for, leading to two prestigious award nominations.
Its just what happened, she said of the indie route her cinema career has taken thus far. It was what was available to me, and the roles that were really interesting to me. There are fewer films made at a studio level I like than were made 15 years ago.
Most lately, Kazan has been notable on social media for her criticism of Donald Trump, and for writing a piece in The New York Times, in which she eloquently wrote about her experience of suffered by anorexia around the age of 18.
The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my fury, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not, Kazan wrote. That, and I had get in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space.
The wry tone and plainspoken honesty evident in her article and on her Twitter account is also refreshingly evident when we met.
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