Actor Claire Foy Observes the Unobserved

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, we’re joined by actor Claire Foy! We discuss her compelling performance in Sarah Polley’s Women Talking (5:10), the painful journey of her character, Salome (7:50), and a pivotal scene from the film (11:50). [To skip ahead, the conversation around Women Talking ends at 15:10.] Then, Foy describes growing up in England (16:08), her path to drama school in Liverpool (21:49), and her on-screen debut in the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit (26:24).

On the back-half, she describes working with Nicolas Cage (31:00), balancing motherhood and her starring role in The Crown (33:57), the evolution she’s witnessed in the film industry (39:12), and her lifelong appreciation of ordinary lives (44:47).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam For actor Claire Foy. You likely first learned of Foy's work through her
0:48.0	portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Crown, for which she won an Emmy.
0:54.8	In the five years since her TV hit, she's appeared in films like Stephen Soterberg's Unsane
1:00.5	and Damien Chiselle's First Man, where she played Janet Sharon, wife of famed astronaut
1:06.5	Neil Armstrong. Her latest performance comes in the new movie, Women Talking,
1:11.7	written and directed by Sarah Polly. movie Women Talking, Written and Directed by Serapolly.
1:14.4	Inspired by real life events, it tells the story of eight women in an isolated men
1:19.5	and a colony who discover that the men in their community have been
1:23.2	surreptitiously drugging and abusing them for years.
1:27.2	With their faith shaken and reality shattered, the women begin deliberating
1:31.5	over their response to this brutality.
1:34.2	Here's a clip from the trailer.
1:36.8	Why does love, the absence of love, the end of love, the need for love, result in so much violence.
1:45.0	It was all waiting to happen.
1:47.0	It was all waiting to happen before it happened.
1:55.0	You could look back and follow the breadcrumbs along the path that led to violence.
2:01.0	When we looked back, it had been everywhere.
2:05.0	It is a part of our faith to forgive.
2:08.0	We would be forced to leave the colonies if we do not forgive these men.
2:12.0	None of you will listen to reason.
2:15.0	We know that we've not imagined these attacks.
2:18.0	We know that we are bruised and terrified.
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