Photograph: Focus/Everett/RexĪ horror film has succeeded when your attempts to describe it come out in bursts of imagery rather than what actually happened. History player … Romola Garai, with Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in Atonement. I’ll get replaced, I’ll become that smaller and smaller part until I literally disappear.’” That’s what you see as you go into the industry – from the very beginning, you’re thinking: ‘That’s going to be me. I was playing the lead and she had two scenes. “One of the first jobs I ever did, there was a woman playing my mother who was an actress I’d grown up watching on TV. I wanted to do something playful with that.” Inescapably, too, the fear of the crone is the fear of ageing itself, which as an actor “I’m acutely aware of”, she says. Not all the time.”īoth sides of the maternal hellscape are viscerally and metaphorically rendered there’s also a powerfully decayed crone, part of, Garai says, “an inelegant history, in horror particularly, for older women to represent ideas of psychological threat. “Which isn’t to say that there’s a correlation between Amulet and my view on my baby. So maybe I had a surprised look on my face that she misinterpreted – and she was moved to clarify. First, she seems almost allergic to trivial conversation, and this makes her unusually exhilarating company second, she’s not at all interested in hiding her thoughts or feelings, which is, again, unusual, at least in the industry she’s in. Two things are immediately noticeable about Garai, which have been hinted at since her first major role, in 2003’s I Capture the Castle, a beautiful adaptation of the Dodie Smith coming-of-age novel. House of horror … Carla Juri and Alec Secareanu in Amulet.
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