In her next meaty role, she’ll play con artist Anna Delvey in the upcoming Shonda Rhimes Netflix series Inventing Anna. It’s been the same since I was 6 years old, which is a black turtleneck.”Įleven years after that audition, Garner has crafted the kind of career that capitalizes on her distinctive talent, one in which her daring, naturalistic performances often leave viewers wondering, as her director on The Assistant, Kitty Green, thought after seeing her on The Americans, “Who is that kid?” In The Assistant, which Bleecker Street released early this year, Garner almost wordlessly holds the screen as a subordinate to a powerful, abusive Harvey Weinstein-like industry figure.
When you think about teen actors, you think of them having this gorgeous, luscious hair and being so pretty that you’re like, ‘You would never be the shy girl in high school.’ I was definitely not. “I was too natural maybe in terms of acting. “ is like, ‘You should do independent films,’ ” Garner says. It’s an outsider’s role that makes the most of Garner’s electric delivery, her pale skin and tight blond curls.īut back in that New York casting office, all her teen awkwardness was going to waste. Today, the 26-year-old, Bronx-born actress is most known to audiences as Ozark‘s best-loved character, swaggering Ruth Langmore, a poor young woman who wields improbable power in a criminal family full of men. Behind her are two keyboards that belong to her husband, Mark Foster, the lead singer of the band Foster the People, and just outside the door her English bulldog, Biz, is snoring.
Garner is recounting the story over Zoom from a makeshift music studio in her home near Lake Hollywood in early August, shortly after she was nominated for her second Emmy for her performance on Netflix’s Ozark. “She was like, ‘Honey, you’re great, but you shouldn’t be here.’ I’ve never been stopped in the middle. On her third or fourth audition, “The casting director stopped me in the middle,” Garner says. Garner had recently begun taking acting classes to help overcome her shyness, and thought she’d try to book some roles. It was a failed audition for a Nickelodeon show at age 15 that steered Julia Garner toward her ultimate fate.
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