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Awards Chatter

Margaret Qualley - ‘Fosse/Verdon’ & ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The 24-year-old breakout star — an Emmy nominee for FX’s limited series and a scene-stealer in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film — reflects on growing up as Andie MacDowell’s daughter, abandoning dancing and modeling for acting and how HBO’s ‘The Leftovers,’ a Spike Jonze perfume ad and the indie ‘Novitiate’ all set the stage for her crazy 2019. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded by Joshua Farnham and produced by Matthew Whitehurst and Joshua Farnham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.4

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0:25.0

sound is power. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 296 episode of Awards

0:39.7

Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the top up-and-coming actresses in the business.

0:48.0

Within one week this summer, she received an Emmy nomination for best supporting actress in a limited series or TV movie for her portrayal of Anne Ranking, the great dancer and one-time romantic partner of Bob Fosy in the FX limited series Fosy Verden, and she attended the Hollywood premiere of Quentin

1:05.3

Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in which she plays Pussycat, a fictional

1:10.5

member of the Manson family opposite Brad Pitt and for which he has garnered

1:15.3

rave reviews, the beautiful and talented Margaret Qually.

1:19.8

Over the course of our conversation at the offices of the Hollywood reporter, the 24-year-old daughter of the actress

1:24.4

Andy McDowell reflects on her extensive background in dance and why she walked away from her

1:29.4

pursuit of a career as a ballerina, tried modeling, and then walked away from that as well.

1:35.0

How she wound up trying and falling in love with acting, the last thing she ever imagined herself doing,

1:41.0

how her early roles on the TV series The Leftovers from 2014 through 2017 in a

1:47.2

2016 Spike Jones directed ad for Kenzo World Perfume and in films such as the 2016 blockbuster The Nice Guys and the

1:55.1

2017 Indian Novishit paved the way for her incredible 2019 plus much more so without ado, let's go to that conversation.

2:05.0

Myarder, thank you so much for joining us,

2:11.0

good to have you.

2:12.0

We always begin with just a few basics. Where were you

2:15.2

born and raised and what did your folks do for a living? I think you may have a more

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