A Perth mum is spending Christmas in a moonboot after breaking her ankle after she fell on a frozen city centre pavement last Saturday.
08.12.2022 - 09:45 / deadline.com
Claire Foy is nothing but versatile. In 2018, after winning an Emmy as Elizabeth II in The Crown, the 38-year-old Brit appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s show and threw down the intro to The Sugarhill Gang’s hit ‘Rapper’s Delight’. The same year, she was astronaut Neil Armstrong’s wife in First Man, but in Oscar hopeful Women Talking she plays Salome, for whom the moon landing is pie in the sky. Directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Frances McDormand, it takes place in a strict religious community where women and girls have been abused by their menfolk. A meeting is called: do they stay, or do they go?
DEADLINE: You must have known Women Talking was going to be hard work from the moment you saw the script. Why did you sign up for it?
CLAIRE FOY: Sarah, really. She was the gatekeeper to the whole project, and a pretty impressive one. I just had the loveliest time talking to her. It was during Covid. I did lots of Zoom meetings, and hers was the most relaxed and enjoyable Zoom that I had during that whole period. We talked about everything. I find her a really inspiring person to talk to: she’s incredibly intelligent and emotionally engaged. It was only when I found out I’d got it that I realized what a responsibility I’d been given. I was slightly afraid because I didn’t know where it was going to take me. But she cast the most extraordinary group of people, and the crew likewise, so I knew that I was in a safe and respectful environment.
DEADLINE: How did you prepare?
FOY: Well, I was very lucky: there’s a book [by Miriam Toews]. Also, the film is based on a Mennonite community, and so there was a little bit of research I could do around that. But there were other things I couldn’t investigate for myself, so I had to trust
A Perth mum is spending Christmas in a moonboot after breaking her ankle after she fell on a frozen city centre pavement last Saturday.
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