Anna Chlumsky talks Inventing Anna

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00:00Hi Anna, who are you? I love your red wall with your orchids. It's stunning. Thank you. I love

00:06your painting. Thank you. It's the hotels. They have good taste. So I loved your portrayal of

00:15Vivian. I especially loved your scene work with Ariane and also Julia. I loved it. So tell me

00:22about some of your favorite memories from making this and also maybe moments you feel most proud

00:27of. Oh, I feel I actually do feel very proud of all the work we did. I feel like by the end I felt

00:34very it was all very earned. I mean, oh, Ariane and Julia in the last episode, I can't even I can't

00:43even I'm so excited about it. Any any of the scenes that I got to do with Julia where we just are people

00:49talking and trying to get something from each other like those are that's what I sign up for as an

00:54actor. So I'm so grateful that those turned out so as juicy and electric as it felt making them.

01:00Yeah. Yes. A favorite too is is all of the Scriberia scenes. You know, Gary Kenny, Jeff

01:06Perry and Anna DeBeer Smith. It just just we we just had an incredible blast. We just yeah between

01:15action and cut. We're very professional and do our scene. But but once cut is said, we're just we're

01:20just telling jokes and playing theater games. Oh, I love it. So tell me about building that dynamic

01:27with Julia. I you know, she's she's just a really genuine and giving person and really cares about

01:35what she does. And so am I. So, you know, when I I didn't feel like there was a ton to build as much

01:42as we were both there to respect our text and and we both really were confident enough to do it.

01:49And I think that that's that's probably what you what you're what you're hopefully enjoying.

01:55Yeah. So I'm curious. Tell me, how do you think about Anna Sorokin? How do you feel about her?

02:01I you know, I do think she's a fascinating person. I think I you know, I you sort of can't help but root

02:09for her in a way, you know, you know, you feel like we've all been we've all been privy to seeing

02:14her kind of work herself out on such a huge stage. And and a lot of that is, of course, of her own

02:24making, you know, but as as as a witness to it, you know, I don't know. You you want someone to to

02:32I always I always want someone to come out OK. Yeah. Yeah. And all the time she talks about a

02:37boys club, I'm like, who doesn't understand that? She's right there. Yes, of course. Of course.

02:43Yeah. Yeah. So as I was saying, Arian singled you out. He loved working with you. So I'm curious

02:49who you've worked with in the past that you'd love to work with again. Oh, well, he's definitely one

02:54we definitely we love working together. It was it was a blast. And he's fantastic. And he's so relaxed.

03:00He's so dropped in. It's it makes me it makes me jealous. And Alexis and I just I feel like I made

03:09a really great friend in Alexis. She's an amazing performer, amazing person. And, you know, anytime

03:15we get we get together a lot, I actually on our own now. I would work with any of this cast again.

03:21And they're phenomenal. Yeah. I want Terry Kinney to hire me in something. He's a director.

03:28I want Terry. Yeah. Hello. Yeah. He knows. He knows. But that's the thing. I think I think this

03:36cast is such a great group of people. I think we all we all know this about each other. We all know

03:40that we would jump at the chance to work with each other again, because really and truly it was a it was

03:45a joy to go to work each day. I love that. Well, thank you so so much for the art that you bring

03:51into the world. I really appreciate it. Have an amazing day, Anna. Thank you so much.