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 Gretchen Mol
Spotlight By: Andrea Tuccillo
Gretchen Mol was once touted as Hollywood’s new “it” girl on the cover of Vanity Fair, but she seems more content to just go with the flow, no labels required. Her breakthrough as an “it” girl never really happened, yet Mol has worked steadily in a diversified number of films, television, and stage productions. Instead of being a fleeting talent, she is proving that she’s in this business for the long-haul. In the David Wain-directed comedy The Ten, which is out on DVD January 15th, Mol got a chance to show off her funny side. The film is a wacky, exaggerated take on the Bible’s Ten Commandments. It weaves together ten different stories and revels in its own randomness. Mol plays Gloria, an uptight, repressed woman who has an affair with Justin Theroux’s character. “It was just a ball,” she says of the shoot. “It was summer. You’d show up to work and who knew what you were going to find because the crew was just like, what are we making? They’d bring farm animals—it was just insanity, but it was great fun. And at the core of it David and [writer/actor] Ken Marino had a structure and they knew exactly what they were doing as far as each piece really has a different visual style, so there was a lot of structure underneath the ridiculousness of the situations.” As soon as Mol read the script she knew it was something hilarious, but the look and feel of the finished product still ended up being somewhat of a surprise. “My commandment was very torrid, almost romance novel and heightened the way it was shot and then you got to the one that was animation and you’re sort of like what is this?” she says. “It’s very stream of consciousness almost. So as a script I didn’t see it for as funny as it ended up being but I knew, having seen their work before I trusted their thing and I knew I found it funny so I trusted that it would be something interesting, if nothing else.” Mol’s character in The Ten certainly seems like a departure from the sexy, confident pinup girl she played in The Notorious Bettie Page. The differences were a welcome change though, and Mol was still able to relate the two characters in some way. “It was fun to take the cliché of the uptight, inexperienced librarian and just kind of go full force with it,” she says. “It was just an opportunity to play and be playful again after Bettie. But Bettie had a little bit of that innocence too. I feel like I often get cast this way. It was definitely with the ‘wink, wink’ aspect to this character but I think the important thing that David stressed was that we’re not trying to play it for laughs. It’s all to be played very straight and the ... |
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