![]() I think the hardest thing about doing an accent, especially with a Missouri accent, is making sure that you’re not mumbling with the words, so your diction is clear. When I went to the audition, it was… not easy, but it was familiar. The good thing was, I did pretty much the same accent the year before for a different movie, Tomato Red. What was the most challenging part of getting the accent right? I would be writing, “I don’t know how I’m feeling about Marty,” or how I’d be feeling, what’s my objective-how you would write personally in your journal, but as the character. Then, I do this thing where I write I don’t write a journal personally, but I have an acting journal where I write as the characters that I’m playing. I also have an acting coach, so I worked with her. When you speak in the accent, the part also gets in you because you’re not talking in your regular tone. I would go to restaurants and I would speak in the accent. I wanted to make sure that I did it right, so I just spoke with the accent the whole month before I was shooting. I think that’s why she is drawn towards Marty. She seems to have power over everyone because her father is in prison. Yeah, because I think her dad has power over her. I think of her going to visit her dad in prison she’s a different person from the girl who’s sitting in the chair running the strip club. There are so many different sort of facets of her, built around the context of who she’s interacting with. ![]() It was very complex-even though I didn’t know the context of what happened in the show apart from the pilot, I figured out quickly, this girl is this, and this, and this. The thing that drew me was the dialogue, and how I got a sense of the character through what she was saying. ![]() What was it that made you think, I need to have this? But I remember thinking, if I didn’t get this, I would be upset. I’m very good in letting things go there’s always new things, and I’m a big believer in everything happens for a reason kind of thing. I don’t get like this often, but I remember thinking, If I don’t get this part, I would have a hard time. I only did it once, the casting associate just said ‘”Thank you.” Then I got a callback with Jason Bateman and the showrunner, Chris Mundy. ![]() I did the scene one time in the first audition and I was thinking, Oh, my god, that was terrible. The first audition was in this tiny casting room in New York, and you could hear the other people reading the same lines in the room while you’re waiting. I remember thinking, I have to get this part-I was obsessing over it for like two weeks. But reading the character of Ruth from the audition sides, I wanted to get that part so bad. But it’s not without its comedic moments, many of them courtesy of Ruth, who rapidly ascends from working as a motel’s housekeeping staff to managing a strip club as Marty’s unexpected right-hand woman. The series is relentlessly dark-at risk of giving too much away, there’s an impromptu C-section, several unexpected murders, and the electrocution of a rodent. Jason Bateman’s character Marty is the Walter White-and Ruth is his reluctant Jesse Pinkman.īut the series also sets up a dialogue between socioeconomic classes-between the Byrdes and the Langmores, between the summer tourists just visiting the Lake of the Ozarks and those who have to survive in the off-season. Ozark is, in many ways, a natural successor to series like Narcos and Breaking Bad. Supporting Linney and Bateman is no small feat, but Garner capably holds her own as Ruth Langmore, the 19-year-old Ozark native who butts heads, and eventually allies herself, with the Byrdes. So, naturally, she makes off with it-and in doing so, immediately becomes complicit in a far-reaching money-laundering and drug-smuggling scheme that threatens to overwhelm the small Missouri town where she and the Byrdes first clash. But Ruth, as played by the 23-year-old actress, quickly establishes herself as a devious “criminal mastermind-in-the-making,” as Garner described her on a recent afternoon.Ĭharlotte Byrde, the daughter of Bateman and Linney’s characters Marty and Wendy, played by Sofia Hublitz, warns Ruth not to enter their motel room Ruth, her interest piqued, steals into the unattended room later in the afternoon, where she finds a suitcase filled with cash. The introduction Ozark, the new Netflix drama starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney, offers the scene-stealing Julia Garner‘s Ruth Langmore is an unassuming one: Clad in cutoff denim shorts, she pushes a housekeeping trolley along the second-floor balcony of a motel.
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