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Elisabeth Moss recalled engaged on the tense set of the award-winning 1999 movie Woman, Interrupted, with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Whereas showing on SiriusXM’s “Let’s Speak Off Digital camera With Kelly Ripa” in a current interview, the Handmaid’s Story star, 41, defined why she discovered Angelina, 48, “intimidating” to work with on the time.
“There have been two sort of camps. There was the Winona Ryder camp and the Angelina Jolie Camp,” Elisabeth identified. “I used to be within the Winona Ryder camp and the Angelina Jolie camp was actually cool. These have been the actually cool ladies. I used to be so intimidated by the Angelina Jolie camp. I had no ideas of ever with the ability to be in that camp. It was so cool. It was all of the cool ladies.”
She then rehashed how pressure occurred “off digicam however [it was] primarily based on what was on digicam,” referring to Angelina and Winona’s characters. Angelina performed Lisa Rowe, and Winona, 52, performed Susanna Kaysen, who grow to be enemies within the movie’s plot.
Regardless of feeling uncomfortable on the time, Elisabeth acknowledged that Angelina is “beautiful” and has “spoken” with the Oscar winner in recent times.
“I’ve spoken to Angelina since then, and he or she’s beautiful, however on the time, it was simply extremely intimidating,” The Veil sequence star famous. “I’ve by no means introduced it up, and I’m positive she would don’t know what I used to be speaking about anyway. However I used to be simply not — I used to be undoubtedly not cool sufficient to be in her camp.”
Woman, Interrupted follows Winona’s character, Susanna, after she suffers from a nervous breakdown and an overdose. She is distributed to the psychiatric hospital Claymoore, the place she befriends different sufferers, together with Elisabeth’s schizophrenic character, Polly “Torch” Clark. Susanna and Angelina’s character, Lisa, initially grow to be pals, however Lisa is a manipulative sociopath who convinces Susanna to cease going to remedy and taking her remedy.
Elisabeth’s newest interview comes amid a busy time in her profession. Not solely is she pregnant and anticipating her first baby, however she has additionally been selling her brand-new Hulu present, The Veil. Whereas talking completely with Hollywood Life, the Hulu star teased her complicated efficiency.
“I’ve at all times needed to do [something in] the spy style, however this was like that occasions 100 as a result of Imogen is so many various folks,” she famous. “And the individual that you meet originally is the totally different individual from the one you meet 10 minutes later, to the totally different individual that you simply’ll meet within the second episode, so on and so forth. So, for me, it was like this chance to play 10 characters in a single undertaking.”