![]() ![]() It kind of meant there was nothing solid, it was something that moved and broke apart and joined other atoms.”įor Buckley, that “anything” meant, well, everything. “Just before I went to do the audition, I got a note from Charlie that said, ‘This woman is molecular.’ I didn’t know what that meant! I was awful at chemistry, but I kind of loved that note. “It was something that really injected me with a feeling, and those moments are kind of lovely and precious, when you have an intimate, personal feeling like that,” she said. Even more surprising: She had to read it, prepare an audition, and put herself on tape in just 12 hours. “It was a shock,” Buckley said, receiving a Charlie Kaufman script in her email one evening. It’s meant to provoke.”īuckley’s role was originally meant for Brie Larson, who had to bow out due to Marvel commitments, leaving the production in need of a leading lady fast. And anyway, art’s not meant to be appealing. “Everybody looks at everything in life from their own perspective, so it’s never going to be a prescriptive, exact observation for every single person,” she said. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” Mary Cybulski/NETFLIX That doesn’t mean she’s opposed to people unpacking its many mysteries ( Kaufman himself did that, sort of, with IndieWire earlier this month.) Buckley isn’t spoiler-phobic she’s just more interested in the thoughts and feelings about the film. It’s not that I find it hard to describe, I just don’t think that’s what it’s asking us to do.” It was something that transcended and shifted and moved from when I read it to when I was playing it, to afterwards when I watched it. It’s not something that’s finite for me either, and it never was. It’s hard to describe what it is to you or to anybody who watched it, because it’s your experience. “I don’t think there’s anything finite about the film. “I think I probably still feel the same,” she said. (“The less I talk, the better,” she said in an August interview with Entertainment Weekly.) Now that the film is out in the world, she’s loosened up. ![]() Over the course of a single snowbound evening, the film and its characters dip between time and place, emotional headspace, and physical being, bolstered by a generous dose of pop culture and a final act that somehow involves a mashup of both “Oklahoma!” and “A Beautiful Mind.” You just have to see it.īefore Netflix released the film, Buckley was reticent to share much in interviews. In the most basic terms, Kaufman’s film is about a young man (Plemons) who takes his new girlfriend (Buckley) home to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). Greta Gerwig Tells Us Some Ideas Were ‘Too Strange’ Even for Her Weird, Wild, and Wonderful ‘Barbie’ As the Irish actress puts it, “It’s all very meta!” Further complicating matters, Jessie Buckley stars alongside Jesse Plemons as the Young Woman’s boyfriend (who, at least, is definitely named Jake). She’s Lucy, and then Louisa, and Lucia, and even Ames at one point. In the film based on the Iain Reid novel, the “Young Woman” cycles through various names through the ever-twisting plot. Come here.’ I think he just called me Jessie!” “I don’t even know if he called me ‘Young Woman,’ but that’s how it’s written in the script. “I think Charlie kind of just looked at me, and I presumed he was talking to me when he was looking at me,” the actress said with a laugh. Something like, “Well, what name did you call your character?” Fortunately, Jessie Buckley gets it. If nothing else, talking to the star of Charlie Kaufman’s trippy “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is the chance to establish some hard and fast facts about a movie that avoids definitive answers. ![]()
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