A Double Feature: Vicky Krieps and Melanie Lynskey
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week we present a double feature with actors Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets)! To begin, Krieps shares the story behind making Bergman Island (6:00), what it meant to work with director Mia Hansen-Løve (7:30), how she separates herself from her characters (10:30), the epiphany in Mozambique that changed her course (12:59), and a reunion with director Paul Thomas Anderson (17:10). To close, she plays an original song inspired by her character in Old (28:10).
On the back half, Melanie Lynskey rejoins us since her first appearance in 2016! We discuss how motherhood enters her work on-screen (33:00), her role in the new Showtime series, Yellowjackets (34:50), embracing unapologetic characters (38:28), memories of her first role alongside Kate Winslet in the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures (41:00), the trajectory of her career while growing up in New Zealand (43:20), her support of the IATSE movement (44:00), and the evolving conversation around working conditions in film and television (47:55). Before we go, Lynskey reflects on our first talk on the show and how she hopes to remember this moment, as an artist and parent, in the years to come (57:57).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigo, so... |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the show. Oh, Today we have a special two-part episode with actors Melanie Linsky and Vicky Creeps. |
| 0:56.0 | As you may remember, Linsky came on this podcast back in the summer of 2016. |
| 1:01.2 | She stars in a new show called Yellow Jackets, |
| 1:04.0 | premering tonight on Showtime. |
| 1:06.0 | We catch up with her in a little bit, but first, Vicky Creeps. |
| 1:10.0 | You likely saw her opposite of Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread back in 2017. |
| 1:16.0 | She played Alma, a waitress turned muse for Reynolds Woodcock, the exacting fashion designer, played by Day Lewis. |
| 1:24.0 | To her credit, Vicky was every bit as compelling as her seasoned counterparts, |
| 1:29.0 | delivering a staggering performance that catapulted her into American cinema. |
| 1:34.0 | But initially, she was reluctant to embrace this new career. |
| 1:38.0 | After Phantom Thread was released, she went back to Berlin and her two children. |
| 1:43.0 | That's where we enter the story. |
| 1:45.0 | It was while she was home that she received an email from French filmmaker Mia Hanson Love. |
| 1:50.0 | The email contained a script for a film called Bergman Island. |
| 1:55.0 | Creeps, who became enamored with Mia's work around the release of father of my children, |
| 2:00.0 | didn't hesitate. |
| 2:01.0 | She said recently, |
| 2:02.8 | when I read the script I knew why she sent it to me. |
| 2:05.8 | I could tell that there was a connection between me and Mia's universe |
| 2:09.4 | in a way that we share a certain sense of sensitivity to life. |
| 2:13.4 | And from that sensitivity, Bergman Island was born. |
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