May December (2023)

Elizabeth Yu: Mary Atherton-Yoo

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• Kimme : Uh, how... How do you choose your roles?

  Elizabeth : Hmm. Well, when I'm lucky enough to choose my roles, I... I wanna find... a character that's... That's difficult to... to, on the surface, understand. I want... I want to take the person, and figure out why are they like this. Were they born, or were they made? And then that can run the gamut from the more notorious to the... Just anyone.

  Mary Atherton-Yoo : Why would you want to play someone who you think is a bad person?

  Elizabeth : Are you kidding? I mean, pick any great role. Medea or Hedda Gabbler, or...

  Cameron : Tony Soprano.

  [scattered chuckling] 

  Elizabeth : Precisely... Cameron. It's the complexity. It's the moral grey areas that are interesting, right?