“My 32-year-old son went, ‘Mom, this is the guy!
This isthe guy!’
I sawHereditaryandMidsommarand was really surprised that he wanted to speak with me.
Patti LuPone.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
I said, ‘Ari, why me?’
I actually wrote to David and said, ‘Thanks for getting me the part.'”
Beau Is AfraidstarsJoaquin Phoenixas Beau, a deeply anxious individual who has a difficult relationship with his mother.
“It’s a wild ride,” says LuPone of the film.
“It’s a mad genius’ fever dream.”
LuPone bonded with Aster and Phoenix over early morning cups of joe during the shoot in Montreal.
Usually on movies it’s, ‘How do you do?’
and then you go at it.
LuPone also hung out withZoe Lister-Jones, who plays a younger version of Mona in the film.
“I think just the fact that we bonded helped us both play the part.”
Lister-Jones describes LuPone as “the coolest hang.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, we had a lot of fun together in Montreal.
What a dream job, to have to study Patti LuPone’s cadence and tone!”
“you could’t play a villain unless you show their good side,” she says.
“you’ve got the option to interpret Mona in so many different ways,” she concludes.
“I choose to think she loves her son and he just constantly disappoints her.”
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