![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not! I refuse to say it was a retirement village because it was a lot of fun. “But Saoirse seems to think that it’s a retirement village. “I actually found the apartment complex,” Scanlen says, proudly. She lived in the same apartment complex as Saoirse Ronan (Jo) and Florence Pugh (Amy), and Emma Watson (Meg) lived around the corner. Maybe I’m a cross section between Beth and Amma.”īack to Beth: Without her own sister by her side-“filming made me miss her a lot,” she says, though they FaceTimed constantly-while shooting in Boston, Scanlen fully immersed herself in the March sisterdom. “There is a part of Amma that I love-she’s so delicious and cheeky. Of all these roles, Amma and Beth feel the most familiar to Scanlen. Currently, she’s playing Mayella Ewell, a woman who falsely accuses a man of rape, in the Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. She also wrote and directed her first short over the summer, Mukbang, about a young woman who falls deep into the online phenomenon. There was her breakout role as Amma Crellin, the roller-skating teen who leads a double life in Sharp Objects she played a young woman in love with a drug dealer in the indie Babyteeth and she just wrapped production on a Netflix thriller, The Devil All the Time. She has played some complicated women, to be fair. That said, “I feel pretty boring compared to all of the characters that I play,” Scanlen jokes. ![]() This article appears in the July 2021 issue of ELLE UK.Scanlen is contemplative and chooses her words carefully-it feels consistent with Beth’s demeanor, though Scanlen says her costars considered her to be more of a Jo. ‘I’d also love to try comedy… but, mostly, I just don’t want to die anymore.’ The challenge now? To juggle her own projects, finish that degree and continue her turbo-charged ascent in Hollywood. ‘It has allowed me to explore being on the other side of the camera.’ She’s also taking university courses in philosophy and environmental studies. ‘I’ve been able to grow in other ways,’ she says, explaining that she has spent the time writing and directing her own short films. The start of the Covid pandemic gave Scanlen a moment to pause and be with her loved ones in Sydney. Seeing the project grow from start to finish made me realise how much I love this job,’ she says. Her knack for choosing roles that tread the careful line between prestige and mass appeal continued after Little Women, when Scanlen appeared in Aaron Sorkin’s mega hit To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway, before landing her debut film lead in Babyteeth, Shannon Murphy’s coming-of-age tale that reinvents the weepy cancer indie-dramedy. ‘I realised I wanted to be up there, too.’ Growing up in Sydney, watching Wes Anderson films blew Scanlen’s mind, but it was a trip to the theatre as a teenager that set her career on track. ‘ has established his own genre – his films have made an impression on the world of cinema.’ ‘ The Sixth Sense is a classic and Split was amazing,’ she says. Shyamalan’s name was enough to make Scanlen jump at the project, despite being ‘terrible’ at watching horror movies. ![]() ‘All I can say is that it’s pretty apocalyptic and poignant for our time,’ says 22-year-old Scanlen from her home in Sydney. Night Shyamalan’s Old – is so secret we can’t confirm if she’ll stick to the trend but, given the horror- thriller vibes, we’re not going to bet against it.īased on the graphic novel Sandcastle, the film follows a group of beachgoers – including Gael García Bernal’s welcome return to the screen – who find themselves trapped in a mysterious cove where they rapidly begin to age. Scarlet fever, cancer, death by hanging… The endings are bleak. Spoiler alert: Eliza Scanlen’s characters usually die. ![]()
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