Greta Lee is recalling the “humiliation” of being puzzled with director Greta Gerwig.
The Previous Lives actress, 40, printed that she was once first of all handed over for her position within the A24 romantic drama — and a next mix-up with the Barbie director, additionally 40, made the rejection sting that a lot more.
“This crazy thing happened that just added to the humiliation of it all,” Lee advised actor Andrew Scott right through the pair’s Selection “Actors on Actors” interview, revealed on Wednesday, December 13. “I got this phone call from this producer saying they needed to meet to discuss something really exciting and important and it was very urgent. For whatever reason I assumed I got the job [on Past Lives] … and then I listened to the voicemail again and it was for Greta Gerwig.”
Scott, 47, was once surprised on the anecdote and exclaimed, “You’re joking me!”
“I’m not,” Lee spoke back. “I wish I was, but that really happened.”
She endured, “They just mixed us up. I don’t know if they just Googled our names and our phone numbers are out there.”
The Morning Display actress mentioned the incident brought about her to in any case settle for the truth that she would no longer be part of Previous Lives.
“It couldn’t have been clearer to me at that time … that it just wasn’t going to be mine,” Lee recalled.
After a 2nd audition with author and director Celine Tune, alternatively, Lee booked the position of Nora. Lee defined that she was once requested to have a digital assembly with Tune three hundred and sixty five days after her first audition as a result of casting manufacturers have been now “looking for older actors.”
“It really was one of those vulnerable and exposing moments because there was no time to engineer a brilliant performance,” Lee mentioned of the last-minute assembly.
She then joked, “It was one of those rare moments where I felt like, ‘This job is already Greta Gerwig’s, so I’m just going to do exactly what I could do in my dreams.’”
After Lee learn scenes with Tune, 35, on a video name, the director presented her the position at the spot.
“It’s wild,” Lee recalled. “It’s too much.”
Previous Lives, which is set two formative years buddies who reconnect after a few years aside, premiered in June and has won six 2024 Golden Globe nominations, together with best possible drama movie, fueling much more Oscar buzz. Lee was once additionally nominated for her efficiency.