This is a fantastic, and certainly unnerving, movie. Elizabeth Olsen was incredible, as was John Hawkes (per usual). Excited for this to get it’s release.
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The Olsen Actress
GQ’s Mickey Rapkin on the Olsen sister you’ve been waiting for:
It’s like a tween gothic novel or What Ever Happened to Baby Janes. Your elder twin sisters—stars since infancy—are faces-on-lunchbox famous. Your summer vacations are spent on a celebrity cruise so the twins can sign autographs. Back in L.A., shopping at the mall equals mayhem. “The paparazzi were really frightening,” says Elizabeth Olsen. “I thought, Maybe I’ll just skip that part.”
Good idea. Renouncing that hotbed of mediocrity, Olsen trained with the Atlantic Theater Company, then went all the way to Russia to study acting, dialect, and stage combat. Now, at 22, she’s a legitimate Oscar contender for her haunting performance as a young woman under the sway of a creepy cult leader in the indie thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene. The most unnerving scene has her offered up naked as a ritual shag. Olsen didn’t think twice about the nudity. “The movie wouldn’t have been as disturbing without it,” says the actress. “Taking away someone’s sexuality, making it something you don’t even own anymore—that’s the scariest thing.”
Photograph by Matt Jones
