It’s just very exciting polar opposites within the same person. She is as outwardly competent and functional and brilliant, as she is completely psychologically damaged and self-destructive. Honestly, I think Robyn is one of a kind. How is she similar or different to the women you’ve portrayed in the past? Over your career, you’ve played a lot of really subversive, exciting female characters - from Rogue in X-Men to Sookie in True Blood, all the way up to your current role as Robyn in Flack. And I know me and many, many other people are in that boat, so no pity party here! But I miss just actually being with my family. Right now, I just miss the fact that I haven’t been able to see my family in - God, almost two and a bit years, because of the pandemic and. Of course, I mean, my mum’s there, my family is there. And I wasn’t really experiencing America as just America - I was really just jumping from film set bubble to film set bubble, you know? So that’s not really the average experience of most people who live here.ĭo you still consider new Zealand to be home? But no, by the time I moved, I already kind of knew what I was expecting. But you know, there obviously are differences - I think things are a little more relaxed and low key in, in New Zealand in general. I mean, I’d been working in America or Canada or various other places often enough for work-related things that when I finally moved, it wasn’t as much of a culture shock as it would have been if I had literally never set foot here. What was the transition like? Was there a lot to adjust to? You grew up in New Zealand before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager. I mean, I was no longer living in New Zealand and, you know, pretty busy in my own life.īut I think that especially as a mum - and two of our four are girls - I really love how empowering and strong and inspiring that story is for young girls and young women. I don’t know how I’d actually not heard of when she was actually doing it. I mean, it’s such an extraordinary story. And I have the absolute luxury of getting to sample little bits and pieces of it throughout my career. And I’m sure that there’s people that will pick apart the differences or try to pit one against the other, but there’s wonderful, talented crews and people who work on film and TV all over the world. But honestly, film and TV sets are pretty much the same everywhere you go - it’s a pretty international language, if you like. Well, Hollywood isn’t even a real entity, and very few things actually shoot in Los Angeles. How is the experience of filming in Australia - or New Zealand - different to filming in ‘Hollywood’? You were recently in Australia, filming True Spirit. Related: Model, singer and activist Karen Elson on freedom and fearlessness In the midst of filming another upcoming project - the true crime series A Friend of the Family - BAZAAR caught up with the Academy Award-winning New Zealand expat to discuss her latest projects and her love of portraying “powerful women”. “I really love how empowering and strong and inspiring that story is for young girls and young women,” she says. “It’s just wonderful writing and also just like, an amazing ensemble of other women, where the boys are the supporting actors”.Īnd even more recently, Paquin took on the role of Julie Watson, the mother of Australian Jessica Watson, who was the youngest person to ever sail non-stop around the world - as ever, celebrating feminine strength, this time with her perspective as a mother driving her desire to be a beacon of feminine strength. “She is as outwardly competent and functional and brilliant, as she is completely psychologically damaged and self-destructive,” Paquin tells me over the phone. In her latest projects too, Paquin continues to play powerful, flawed, brilliant women - like the title character of Robyn in Flack, a crisis-cleaning Hollywood PR agent who she says is “one of a kind”. IT’S QUITE CLEAR the overarching theme of Anna Paquin’s career has to be an ongoing celebration of women, in all their multifaceted brilliance and complexity.įor proof, one need only walk through her extensive resumé: There’s the precocious Flora, whom she played (and won an Academy Award for) at just 11 in The Piano then there’s the shy-but-powerful Rogue from X-Men she played from the age of 16 and of course, there’s Sookie Stackhouse, the sweet-but-fiercely-loyal protagonist of the cult favourite True Blood TV series. Anna Paquin for The Glenlivet | JAMIE NELSON
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