AP interview: Colman and Buckley, about sharing Lea

It is not common for two actors to play the same role perfectly in the same film.But in "The Lost Daughter" ("The Lost Girl") by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play a woman in very different chapters of her life with a rare harmony.

"The Lost Daughter", the remarkable debut like Gyllenhaal as director, is an adaptation of a 2006 novel by Elena Ferrante.Colman plays Leda, a 48 -year -old British academic in Greece, where a large and rude family interrupts the tranquility of his vacation.However, Leda is intrigued by a young and fighter mother, played by Dakota Johnson.His interactions feed Leda's memories of his early years as a mother, an era in which his career was also taking off.In interspersed flashbacks, Buckley plays the youngest Leda.

Colman and Buckley do not look much, but their Leda interpreters are convincingly synergistic.Each performance deepens the other, creating a study of divided but holistic characters: two actresses, a Leda.In the generalized praise that the film has received, which opens in cinemas on Friday and December 31 in Netflix, Colman and Buckley have been regularly recognized by groups that award awards.

Colman, 47, awarded an Oscar for "The Favourite" ("The Favorite") and an Emmy for "The Crown", and Buckley, Irish actress of 31 and star revelation of "Wild Rose" of 2019, shareMuch more than Leda, like the desire to laugh and the love of karaoke.During a break from Buckley essays for “cabaret” at the West End, both reflected on sharing one of the most moving papers of the year in a recent video call from London.

AP: Did they meet before "The Lost Daughter"?

Buckley: We did Karaoke together.That was basically all our research.

Colman: I quickly learned not to compete with Jessie's song.

AP: What were your songs?

Buckley: "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Colman: A little Adele.That was a challenge.

Buckley: Thank God he released a new album.This is all I can say.

Colman: It's funny because it's true.

AP: Olivia, you suggested Jessie for this role.What made you think of her?

Buckley: everything is your fault.

Colman: When I met Maggie, I said: "And who else do you have?".She said: “I have no one.What do you think?".I said: "Do you know Jessie Buckley?".I didn't know her, but it was and saw "Wild Rose", who had just left.I always think of "Jessie Buckley".I excite me alone.

Buckley: I should do karaoke more frequently.That is the way to enter.

Colman: I find Jessie the most incredible actress.I love to look at her.I think he is exquisite in his elections and has an impeccable taste.

Buckley: I'm the best.

Colman: We saw each other for a week and we had a lot of fun.

Buckley: We are very good to have fun.Professionals.

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AP: How did they achieve that, if they don't share any scene together?

Colman: Jessie and (Jack Farthing, who plays Leda's husband) and the girls had their own type of film during the first 10 days.But we agreed, and I think you stayed a little more after finishing.

Buckley: Yes, basically I was like the mother who hadn't come out for about 10 years.So when they arrived, I thought: "Ahhh!".

AP: Did they get to talk about their approach?

Colman: We had a phone call in which we said: "What accent should we make?"."OKAY".

AP: Is that all?

Colman: Well, Maggie doesn't want to underestimate the public.It is clear that they are Jessie and Olivia.We are different people and we are playing the same woman.But she is a woman at different stages of her life.One changes a little.When I saw it I thought we had the same response to the script.And Jessie does not confuse me with a secret limp.

AP: "The Lost Daughter" shows a complicated and uncertain side of motherhood that is rarely seen in movies.Leda has ambitions and desires that do not fit into conventional portraits.

Buckley: that's what I loved.Why hasn't it appeared on the screen before?For me, that is what I loved most about my own mother and my sisters and all the wonderful women of my life.It is like the potential of all of them outside of what we project on them.Reading the script was like giving a great sigh of relief.My own mother came to see her at the London Film Festival and sighed deeply.He felt as if he were part of a community for the first time, such as, "Oh, thank God, you too!".It was driving in a different way that night.

AP: Olivia, you have talked about how your own experience of motherhood differs.

Colman: I had a different situation from that of Leda.I was seen and supported.I was a raising partner with my husband.Many of those frustrations did not exist.I also need to be me, because I was an actress.So that's a big difference.In addition, it is not always necessary to rely on something.We are in the imagination business.Jessie has no children, but Jessie plays that role wonderfully.Dakota has no children.I recently played a murderer (in the HBO Miniseries "Landscapers").I haven't killed anyone.

AP: Another saw the scenes of the other to calibrate your own performance?

Olivia: When we just arrived in Greece, I thought maybe I could see a couple of scenes with Jessie's permission.I was about to give him play and said: "Oh, that's wrong".

Jessie: That's just because my ass was the first shot that you saw.

Olivia: I didn't feel it was just doing that.I just thought: why don't we trust each other?The first time I saw her was in Venice and it was your performance that made me say "oh".Seeing you, that was amazing.

AP: Jessie, what did you think when you saw Olivia's performance?

Buckley: I think Olivia Colman has a huge potential.I think he has a great career ahead.I would see Olivia paint a wall, really.

Colman: Once I painted a wall when I was very pregnant.They say that one should never choose paint colors when she is pregnant.I had 9 months pregnant when I said: "This room has to be yellow!".I got a hand staircase and I couldn't remove the curtains, so I went like this (it is mimicry painting like random).When we moved, it was shameful to deliver the house like this to another person.

Buckley: They will keep it for years.They will say: Olivia Colman painted that.It will become an attraction for a Chelin.So abstract!

AP: Both are naturally funny people who, however, are attracted to spiny and often dark material as actresses.Do you feel as attracted to drama as comedy?

Colman: mine is black comedy.I'm lovin 'it.It is the whole human spectrum.We are all a bit of everything.I find that a drama without laughter at all may not be so forceful.One opens to laugh a little.It is: you caught me when I was not protecting me.In the darkest, deep and sad moments, laughing is a release.

Buckley: (laughs).

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Jake Coyle is on Twitter as http: // twitter.com/Jakecoyleap.