Unexpected hit of best-selling melodrama turns actress Daisy Edgar-Jones into potential 2023 Oscar nominee
Strange body in a season dedicated to super productions and Marvel animations, where only the stars with the road (and the charisma) of a Tom Cruise usually win the competition with the superheroes or with the you serve, A place away from here (Where the Crawdads sing) became an exception to all rules and grossed about $ 100 million at the box office. Its cost, estimated at $ 24 million, doesn’t support heavy advertising campaigns, even with actress Reese Witherspoon as a producer. Therefore, its world premiere, which took place in the United States on July 15, happened without fanfare.
The most he had was an out of competition tour of the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, almost a month later. But ever since it hit American and European screens, the drama directed by Olivia Newman – which opens here on September 1st – never ceases to amaze exhibitors. He fills rooms even without famous stars, his only attraction is the novel of the same name from which it is based, written by Delia Owens. The book, published here by Intrinseca, has already sold two million copies overseas and has seen its popularity grow thanks to the film. The same can be said of its protagonist, the English Daisy Edgar-Jones, 24, already known for the miniseries. Normal people, who has already been nominated for an Oscar for her performance. Olivia’s features make her a celebrity.
“It is nice to demonstrate to the cinema that there are spectators still interested in adult stories, different from the average of what is understood as a standard of taste, and imposes itself as a study of the character. Women in this moment of reflection on this evil” , said Daisy a Estadio in Locarno, where he won an honorary prize, the Leopard Club, awarded to emerging talents. “I’ve never had a starring role in a movie, I’ve never visited a festival and I still fit into the characterization of Olivia’s film with the North Carolina American accent.”
without making a fuss, A place away from here it has been highly regarded by the American public and, for almost two months, has not been off the list of the ten largest collections of that country currently on display. It has become what the Hollywood industry calls “sleepers,” commercial hits that spend weeks (sometimes months) on the air. And it stood out from a conversation with the tradition of melodrama. “When it comes to literary adaptation, people usually think of very verbose narratives, with many verbs, and here, on the contrary, we express ourselves through empathy, suggesting rather than explaining,” says Daisy.
Her character is a young mussel picker, Kya, raised in a 1950s US swamp by a violent father whose belt marks the faces of his children and wife. As a girl, lei Kya is gradually abandoned by her mother and siblings, until she sees her father disappear on her map, when she is still a child. With the help of a couple of merchants, Mabel (actress Michael Hyatt) and jumpin ‘(Sterling Macer Jr.), the girl gets along as best she can, alone, not knowing how to read and write, educated only by Nature, in her relationship with shells. She only gets a chance to learn to read when she begins a relationship with a fisherman’s son, future biologist Chase (Taylor John Smith), and create antibodies to the brutality of the world in its relationship with the shells and aquatic beings that surround it. But the moment she sees her life go on, when she devotes herself to designing the shells she collects, she Kya is charged with murder. All indications are that you killed a local bad boy. And she is brought to court, with the reputation of a monster, called “A Moça do Marsh”.
“We shot in a very different reality from London, in waters with snakes and crocodiles, which on the one hand scare, but on the other show the strength of the aquatic life of a small community. It is important that Olivia, in directing, I worked for understand the reality portrayed in the book and explore the complexity of those people. I want to invest in various characters from now on and not characterize myself in a success, in this shy figure that is Kya, but it is very nice to understand such a different reality from mine, ”says Olivia, who praises the exchange with theater star David Strathairn (of Good night and good luck), who stands out in the cast as jurist Tom Milton, Kya’s dedicated defense attorney. “It was a very collaborative work of the whole team, but it was a learning experience to see how an actor of that caliber can be light on set, act and smile.”
Source: Terra
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