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 Mary-Louise Parker
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Mary-Louise Parker is an acclaimed actress of three mediums: film, TV, and theater. She’s won a Tony for the Broadway musical Proof, an Emmy and Golden Globe for her role in the HBO miniseries Angels In America, and another Golden Globe for her popular role as pot dealer Nancy Botwin on the hit Showtime comedy-drama Weeds. Parker’s newest role is as mother Helen Grace in the film adaptation of the popular children’s book series The Spiderwick Chronicles. While most actors tend to be a bit reluctant to play roles that are second-fiddle to young children, Mary-Louise, when she discussed the film with us, said she was eager to do the film and not just because she happens to be a fairly newly-minted mother herself. “I am a mother and I think what drew me to this movie was the fact she’s really part of the struggle with the family,” she says, “And I think what makes the end resonate when they unite together is the fact that she is struggling, too.” “I think if she was some sort of picture of perfection and she’s sort of joined in the struggle, then I wouldn’t think it would really be quite as poignant,” Parker continues, “But I think because she’s trying so hard to keep everything together and she’s resisting them and resisting them and when she does give in, I think that’s what made it kind of sweet. I like that she’s really trying so hard and then, in the end, she really bonds with her kids in the purest way.” The now-43-year-old actress says she was also impressed with the depth of the story itself, despite her initial lack of familiarity with the books themselves. “It’s interesting,” Mary-Louse notes, “The characters are finely drawn. It’s an interesting dynamic. The characters, certainly with the daughter and the mother, I mean the daughter fences. It’s so random and specific and grace.” “I actually had bought one of the books for Alexander [Gould}, the younger son [on Weeds],” she adds, “I think it was the first year. It was something I bought him for his birthday because we asked for a book, he likes the book, and the bookstore said these books are really good. That was one of the things I bought him for his birthday, so it’s the first time I ever heard of the books.” One of the tougher aspects of playing a role in such a deeply special-effects-driven film like Spiderwick is the constant interaction with CGI. The actors often had to interact with mere objects like tennis balls as stand-ins for the more animated characters. For the Tony and Emmy winner, the actress says such a task has the odd double-edged sword of both being fun and complex. “That, it was more fun to play, but it was harder to play because obviously, I’m not looking at anything,” Parker believes, “But it’s more fun to get to play that moment when she does because you’re seeing things that no human ... |
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