Zoe Kazan, star of the upcoming movie The Big Sick, recently sat down for an interview with Vulture. Here's what she had to say:
On writing her new play After the Blast (about a near future in which humanity lives underground, having fled ecological catastrophe and nuclear disaster):
“I’ve struggled with depression most of my life, and I was coming off a pretty bad bout when the idea came to me. Though I didn’t realize that was what I was trying to write about. But after I wrote the play, I was like, Oh. Okay. Sometimes the real thing I’m trying to write about reveals itself very late, even to myself.”
On The Big Sick:
“I was not looking to do another romantic comedy, but then I read the script. There have been a handful of auditions in my life where I’ve walked out feeling like, I think they’d be stupid not to cast me. This was one of those.”
On her grandfather Elia Kazan:
“Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be one of the seminal directors of the 20th century. I’m never going to be that. So I might as well do whatever I want.”
On continuing to write, even as she's finding success as an actress:
“I wasn’t raised in a family that cared about how you look. The fact that I have made my living in acting, where that matters, that really feels antithetical to me as a person. When my first play was produced, I had this sudden feeling that I feel powerful. Like, the next time I go into an audition room and it’s me and the same eight girls as always, I will have this thing that no one can take away from me. They can see us all as interchangeable. But I am not interchangeable."
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