[Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14, 2023.]Laura Linney may miss the chaos of playing crime matriarch Wendy Byrde on Netflix’s “Ozark,” but her latest movie finds her yearning for the past in a decidedly less dark direction.
In Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s 1960s-set Irish drama “The Miracle Club” (out now in theaters from Sony Pictures Classics), the four-time Emmy winner and three-time Oscar nominee plays Chrissie, an American woman on a prize-won trip to Lourdes with her estranged Irish friends (played by the likes of Kathy Bates and Maggie Smith).
It’s a jaunty, frothy, deceptively light comedy about faith and friendship that could not be further from “Ozark”But, as Linney explained in a relaxed chat with IndieWire over Zoom, the longtime New Yorker saw the script before the pandemic and long before she flew to Ireland to shoot the movie on location.
So she wasn’t deliberately setting out to subvert the darkness of “Ozark,…
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