![]() ![]() She was born in Montana to the actor and model Andie MacDowell and the model-turned-property contractor Paul Qualley. “The messier you are, the more mistakes you make, the more vulnerable you are, the better it is” – Margaret Qualley ![]() “You’re supposed to take up all the space and make all the mistakes, and you’re supposed to do the thing you feel. “You forget that you’re supposed to be messy,” she says. She did indeed loll her tongue at Pitt in the next take, and it became one of the stand-out moments of a stand-out film, earning Qualley rave reviews for what might have been, in the hands of another actor, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role. “I was blown away.” And with that, Tarantino gave Qualley permission to lean into the sheer weirdness of her role. He asked Qualley: was there something you wanted to do in that scene that you didn’t do? “How did he fucking know that?” Qualley wonders. What the fuck am I doing? I better just obey.”Īfterwards Tarantino beckoned her over. “Who am I to take up that space? This is my first day on the job, this is Brad Pitt and Tarantino. “I thought, I better not do that,” she recalls. Qualley thought about it but ruled it out. A half-leering, half-promiscuous gesture. Pussycat would do something off-key in this situation, Qualley just knew it. She’s all uncontrolled id in denim cut-offs and a halter top. She does what she wants and thinks social norms are a drag. Pussycat is a louche, free-loving, hitch-hiking hippy chick with LSD-dipped cigarettes in her back pocket. The then 23-year-old Qualley was nervous, of course, and focused on getting through the scene without flubbing her lines in front of her co-star Pitt, who was playing languorous stuntman Cliff Booth.īut Qualley had this urge. Dogs prowled the perimeter: Tarantino was insistent they be visible in every shot, to approximate the rangy, pseudo-beatnik vibe of life in a cult. It was the first day of filming at a ranch in the Simi Valley, a stand-in for Spahn Ranch, where Manson infamously devised the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders that, as Joan Didion famously wrote in The White Album, brought an end to the Sixties. (“He’s all the things you want him to be,” she says.) Qualley had never dreamed she’d be asked to be in anything so prestigious, or share screen time with Brad Pitt. It was only a minor role: that of Pussycat, a fictionalised member of Charles Manson’s cult, the Family. In 2018, Qualley was on the biggest production of her life, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time. It doesn’t always come easily to the actor. Margaret Qualley is learning how to trust herself. Production is scheduled to begin next year, with final decisions on the above roles in the next two weeks.This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2022 issue of AnOther Magazine : Her presentation for Birds of Prey was exceptional, and Robbie held firm to her desire for this film to be directed by a woman.īack in July, Deadline reported that Birds of Prey snagged the largest California Filmmaking tax credit incentive of the 19 films announced, with $12.6 million. WB and DC are betting big on Yan her previous film, Dead Pigs, won the World Cinema Dramatic Award For Ensemble Acting at Sundance in January. Yan becomes the third female filmmaker to join the DC club after Wonder Woman‘s Patty Jenkins and Ava DuVernay ( for upcoming The New Gods), and the first female Asian director ever tapped to direct a superhero film. Cathy Yan is directing, which Deadline exclusively reported back in April. ![]() Christina Hodson (Bumblebee) wrote the script. Robbie’s Luckychap is producing, with Sue Kroll, and Bryan Unkeless of Clubhouse Pictures. On the series, the all-femme team come against the schemes of Harley Quinn. In his absence, Oracle (Barbara Gordon) and the Huntress are crime-fighting, joined by telepath Dinah Redmond, Alfred Pennyworth, and Detective Jesse Reese. ![]() The characters of Canary and Huntress made appearance on The CW’s Arrow. There was also a Birds of Prey TV series that aired on the WB from 2002-2003 for 13 episodes and took place in a Gotham City that was abandoned by Batman. In consideration for Black Canary, known for her shrieking cry, are Belle‘s Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Underground actress Jurnee Smollett-Bell. Fire On Warner Bros Studio Lot In Burbank Is Out After Transformer Explosion ![]()
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