In the 1990s, Posey, in her 20s, told interviewers she was working on the script because her career was on the rise. She said she was interested in writing roles for older women. “I love saying that,” Posey said as I raised it. “I know or feel that I always feel the most comfortable at this age.”
The entertainment industry has been changing since the 90s, and Posey has also changed. Her “White Lotus” gig shows Hollywood could be open to exploiting her talent once again. Over the past 25 years, it was a small independent film that allowed her to prove the extent of her elasticity – she was a hallucination in Ari Aster's “Beau Is Hear,” the “broken English” of Zoe Cassavetes An unusual sadness at seduction, “simmering intimacy in Columbus by Cogonada, a Korean-American film director. “You walk the streets with her, and it feels like you're in the film.” ” says Cogonada. “She is a performance artist who makes films in the meantime.”
Like the Posey character in Parker, she remains a free-floating presence. Her romantic history has a travel quality. She compares dating and explores Karma's past lives. She pasted conversations with anecdotes about her sparkling friends and selected family. She can create a new life everywhere, but when she ages, she feels an urge to “rebirth”. A few years ago, she gave up on an apartment in the city and settled on a Catskills farmhouse she bought from Tatum O'Neal in 2007 after filming a Pepsi commercial with Jimmy Fallon. There she formed an adorable relationship with Rory, a recently passed away Highland bull. “He lives in my heart,” she told me.
Posey is still paying attention to his escape route from the film. Over the years, she filmed a survival program about Grid off-grid home building, rebooted old kids' shows about wildlife, started slow TV channels, and walked for herself, Kamille Paglia and Kamille Paglia. I've been meditating on writing and talk movies. Build a purposeful community around farmers. “Have you heard of “attack”? ” she asked me after our sound bus. The convergence of agriculture and entertainment is usually used to describe the maze and hayride of corn, but I imagine it as a new, immersive art form that is perhaps embedded in nature. Inevitably, however, Hollywood continues to call her.
When I met Posey for the second time, she had arranged for us to receive another treatment – a sauna in the backyard of a Brooklyn Vegan restaurant followed by a cold bounce, but instead she texted me with a change of plans. The rehearsals were running for a long time, she said, and she wondered if I could come and pick her up when she left her job. When I arrived at the Public Theater, I learned that she had been cast across from Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich in Martin McDonna's upcoming film, “The Wild Horse Nine.” She came out of a three-piece outfit of crimson herringbone made for her in Thailand, wearing rose glasses. I remember mentioning this film, a period piece from the 70s set on Easter Island at the first meeting, but she described the casting process as being extremely tortured and the role she had in her I thought I had escaped again.
“He said I had that role, and then he wanted me to 'read',” Posey said. “And I was: I can't. I can't!” She'd played Hollywood games many times before, one of which was obviously not as the offer was conditional and not present. It was expanded only to be made. Reading unfamiliar lines under bright light, pretending to be a character she hasn't created yet, she feels self-conscious and revealing. “It's just the beginning of the entire process,” she said. “And that feels embarrassing.” When McDonag stopped by to see her, she hadn't yet opened a FedEx package containing the pages she was meant to play. “I couldn't do that — I don't even have any connection to paper,” she said. She then sat down with McDona and discovered this time her story had a new ending. He didn't let her read it. The part was hers. Regardless of the various creative and financial opportunities the agritenment sector presents, what Parker Posey really wants to do is act.
Stylist: Rushcall Guman. Hair: Mark Townsend. Make-up: Joe Stretter.
Amanda Hess is a critic of the cultural section of the era, covering the intersection of the internet and pop culture. More about Amanda Hess
