Kirby is now back on the front pages of the tabloids due to rumors of an affair with Pedro Pascal. The couple posed so close on the red carpet of the premiere that the Internet couldn’t stand it and started building romantic theories. But devoted fans of the “Hollywood Daddy” know: Pedro Pascal behaves like this with all his female partners in films. And it’s not about the actor’s love for women, but about his psychological characteristics. Pascal admitted in an interview that he experiences anxiety on the red carpet, even to the point of panic attacks, and tactile contact with like-minded colleagues literally saves him. Hugging Kirby is not flirting, but support, although for fans this is too boring and life-like a version.
In the survival thriller “Eden” Vanessa plays Dora Strauch, a real character, one of the first settlers of the mysterious island of Floreana, where in the 1930s a series of unexplained deaths and disappearances occurred. This story was real, a group of Europeans tried to build a utopia on a mysterious island far from civilization. The attempt ended in a real nightmare. People died under strange circumstances, someone disappeared, someone died. The killers were never found. This is the first feature film adaptation of that story. Both Howard and Kirby approached the role according to all the laws of Stanislavsky. The actress plays almost without words, conveying the internal tension to the viewer.
Vanessa Kirby’s path to such roles was not quick. She was born in London in 1988, in the family of a surgeon and an editor of a women’s magazine. As a child, she suffered from bullying and a serious stomach disease, because of which she could not go to school. She read a lot, watched theatrical performances, dreamed of becoming an actress. She entered the University of Exeter, where she studied English literature, and then went on stage. It was there that director David Thackeray noticed her and invited her to the famous London theater “Royal Court”.
At the theater, she played in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Collins’ The Woman in White and almost immediately received rave reviews. Critics wrote about her “fearless vulnerability”, “cold emotionality”, “unique ability to hold a scene through a pause”. Even then, she was called “Cate Blanchett’s heir”.
Real fame came in 2016, when Netflix released the series “The Crown”. The role of Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Elizabeth II, brought Kirby to the international arena. In her performance, Margaret was not just a capricious aristocrat, but a woman in a cage, with burning eyes and longing inside. It was not so much a biographical as an emotional role. For it, Vanessa received a BAFTA and an Emmy nomination.
After that, offers from Hollywood came, but not always standard, although very tempting. She played in Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise. Even in action films, she remained a serious dramatic actress, not just a “lady with a gun.”
The drama Pieces of a Woman by director Kornél Mundruczó was a real challenge. In the film, she plays a woman who lost her baby during a home birth. Kirby’s performance is almost documentary: the birth scene was filmed in one take, 24 minutes without cutting. For this role, she received the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. In one interview, she admitted that she lived through this experience for three months in order to be honest on screen.
I didn’t want to fake grief. I wanted to live it, she said in The Guardian.
One of her most talked about roles in recent years was Josephine Beauharnais in Ridley Scott’s historical drama Napoleon, where her partner was Joaquin Phoenix. Vanessa had a difficult task – to play a woman who became love, obsession and curse for the most famous emperor of France. And at the same time, not to disappear against the background of a cumbersome historical reconstruction and Phoenix in the image of Napoleon, playing on the verge of genius and madness.
The scenes of quarrels between the characters of Kirby and Felix were so charged that Scott admitted that he had to cut out many moments so that the viewer could catch his breath, because the real battle took place here, and not in the scenes of military battles. In an interview with The New York Times, Kirby said that she wanted to show not “Napoleon’s wife”, but a woman with whom kings fall in love and with whom it is impossible to live.
Josephine is constantly balancing between submission and control, she manipulates, suffers, leads. This is not a romantic heroine, this is chaos in silk, – said the actress.
Critics wrote: “Kirby has what makes the greatest actresses – she can say everything without saying anything” and “Phoenix is a colossus, but it is Kirby who maintains her balance. Without her Josephine, this film would collapse under the weight of costumes and guns.” Her colleagues call her a “quiet force.”
You don’t need to rehearse with her – you’re just in the frame, and everything changes,” Daniel Bruhl said about filming together in “Eden.”
And Ron Howard emphasized that Kirby is one of the few actresses who “can build a character in silence.” On the set of “Eden” she refused stunt doubles, rehearsed stunts and even helped with writing dialogue for her character, as befits the icy flame of Hollywood.
Author: Maria Denisova
Source: hellomagrussia.ru
