Natasha Lyonne discusses her role in 'May December', a film exploring themes of family, grief, and non-traditional relationships. She reflects on her character, Rachel, and how the film resonated with her own experiences as an outsider.
the 45-year-old New Yorker has established herself as a singular force in Hollywood, known for her signature mix of humor and heart. While she’s often cast as the mouthy, irreverent broad, her latest project, reveals a more subdued side. In the film, she stars alongside Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen as one of three sisters forced to reunite as their father enters hospice care at home.
As the estranged step-sibling who has lived with the father for years, Lyonne’s character, Rachel, must confront her own grief while navigating a family that doesn’t quite claim her as their own.Azazel Jacobs, the writer-director, called me up and said, “I’d like to hand-deliver a script to you.” He wouldn’t email it. I read it, and it was beautiful. It seemed like a fantasy that someone could dream that—and we’d find 17 days in Manhattan to shoot it. They call that a New York minute! Despite living with her stepfather, your character, Rachel, is made to feel like an outsider in her own home when her sisters arrive. She hasn’t chosen the traditional path for adulthood. is the one who really stays and looks after him. Jovan Adepo, who plays my boyfriend, says, 'You're the normal one. They're crazy.' In that scene, it’s a triumph. It’s like, “You guys are suburban. You guys found husbands and had kids. But I've been staying here, living here with my dad this whole time. That’s my father too, you know?” I was accidentally very moved saying it. I cried a lot, against my will—because in many ways, I have also felt like an accidental outsider in this life. The idea that there's somebody to say: 'Hey, it's okay. You're living your way. That's also valid.' I thought of all of us who don’t have traditional families, so we don’t know how to mourn properly. Like, for me, my parents are dead. I cried more for Lou Reed and Nora Ephron dying than I did my own parents, because I didn't know how.Unfortunately, that’s not always true of the characters I pla
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