Play a single -tone mother Last year, the Independent Joyful “Janet Planet”, Julianne Nicholson won some of the best criticisms of her career. Then came The “paradise” of Hulu, of Hulu, The winding science fiction where she presents herself as Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond, the rich ghost sovereign of a Underground Utopian Community And (perhaps) a dangerous psychopath. Did she already ask the creator of the Dan Fogelman series why he thought she would be perfect for the role?
“He mentioned that he loved the idea that Sinatra has a real humanity for her,” said Nicholson, who, in flashbacks, is sweet and, in the present in history, brittle, degenerating ferocity. “In addition to all bad respects, it was important for him to make him live a woman, a woman and a living mother.”
It turns out that reality has a role was also what inspired Nicholson's guest arc on HBO's “hacks” as an excessive Tiktok personality called Dance Mom.
“They thought that, as great character as she was, she had to be anchored in the human experience,” said Nicholson, whose energetic routines were kept secret from everyone, except the producers of “hacks” until she played one for the first time before the distribution, the crew and a studio audience made up of extras. She dropped the house. “They were getting fucked and whistling, and the crew all started making dance versions. It aroused a lot of joy. “
Dance Mom clearly subscribes to the “Dance like no one looks” sentence. Do you calm someone specific?
You can dig on the Internet – Instagram, Tiktok – and find versions of this character, people who make their dances, sell their products. But I worked with a choreographer twice a week, and we worked for hours to put it in my brain, make it natural. He already had grains from the big dance. Then, each time we meet, he would add a few steps, or we added together, or we would simply be silly. Then he would make videos. There were dances where we went very far, one who was super hot. And he sent (video) to (producers) and they said to themselves: “UM, not management (we enter).”
Julianne Nicholson as “Dance mom” in “Hacks.
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Do you have a dance training?
I'm glad you asked. When I was in high school, I danced at the Bill Fowler's Dance Academy in Medford, Mass. I did it for five years, and I loved it. Tap, jazz. But I stopped when I was 16 years old. So it's been a minute (laughter).
Due to planning, you had to film your arc with three episodes in a single week. It looks like hectic cardio training.
I would drop at the end, even if it was a dance of 2 and a half years. Even these little tiktoks. I should have known, but I did not do it, how physically demanding it would be, doing it again and again.
Go to “Paradise” and Sinatra. Do you think she is a monster?
Honestly, I don't know. At the start, I said to myself: “No, it is not. She thinks she does the right thing. ” But in episode 8, you start to realize that it puts these people (danger) when they build (the bunker). This is the class system. (She is) being just carefree in the lives of people who have less. But I swing back and forth. I think both (sides) are right. She is and is not a monster. There is no longer to come with her story in the second season, which reveals even more at the end of the world and what she tries to set up.
Julianne Nicholson.
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Has the “Paradise” shooting invoked your childhood memories of living from the grid – no running water, no electricity – in the rural massachusets?
It crossed my mind. People have asked since the show came out: “What would paradise be like (like) for you?” And I went back there to make “Janet Planet” and it was like a paradise for me. I had not been there for 30 years, and I felt like: “Oh, my God! Is it my place?” I don't feel it in other places. I have always been a vagabond, a mover. And when I returned there, I was so happy. Part of this is familiarity. But that's not just that. I have returned to other places before and I did not have this feeling. But the air, the sky, the farms … I think I could find myself one day there.
Sinatra does terrible things. Have you ever been afraid not to last very long?
No. I have been doing this for a long time now, if you need to kill me, everything is fine. I don't take it personally. There will be another job. It does not start and does not stop here. They hadn't used to kill people we thought we were our heroes. But I think it has changed a lot. For me, the turning point was Sean Bean in “Game of Thrones”. You think he's going to be your hero throughout all of this, and he was killed in the first season. Nothing is certain.
Your reputation is to be very easy to get along with it.
I like to be on a set. I worked with Willem Dafoe, and he Really likes to be in a set. Like, (he) leaves his phone in the trailer that is a car. I have never seen him sit on his actor chair. I'm not like that. But unless it's a very intense scene, it's nice to be with the people you are going to work with. But I am also happy to go to my trailer if I need to be silent. Sometimes it's nice to recharge.
Julianne Nicholson with Sterling K. Brown in “Paradise”.
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When “Paradise” began production, the strikes of writers and actors had just ended. None of the crew had worked for a year. Could you feel their warm embrace?
Yes! First of all, we fired on the primordial lot, which was a ghost city. I went to Paramount when I started for the first time and auditioned. I also made a television program entitled “The Others”, which turned on the Lot. I love Paramount. It looks like history when you walk under this arch. But everyone was so happy to work.
Does the “paradise” seem more scary now than it was when it was in production?
It was not our intention. Dan had the nucleus of the idea of this show before “It's us.” We finished filming in July. We did not think of the current administration. There was a time when everyone is like “Sinatra has no title.” What is his role? Can she be in the oval office without being elected? ” And now it's like: “Apparently you can.” I expect it to be one of the reasons for which he resonates with people. Since then, fires have occurred here. There is (a) the climate crisis in the extreme. And the state of policy at the moment is managed by technological billionaires. It just adds a little more (Malélé laughs) Heh-Heh-Heh.
