Alison Brie in "The Publisher" - a habit animal on new ways
Turning series is like going to the office
Alison Brie can use variety as well as whooping cough. A habit animal of the first kind is she, says the actress, "that starts at breakfast:
I always drink my white tea from loose leaves and eat an apple with almond butter.
And because she needs her regularities, she feels so well cared for when watching TV. Because shooting series, that's a bit like going to the office - the days are amazingly similar to each other.
Alison Bries roles as a series actress
But the roles that Brie, born Alison Brie Schermerhorn and raised in Los Angeles, has played in the front row of the boards of a Jewish community center, are surprisingly different.
In "Mad Men"She had her first big series serve ten years ago, as an advertising fuzz as a '60s wife, followed by adult education comedy."Community"where she made a name for herself in shooting breaks with Pupswitzen."Glow"to play a pro-wrestler and to be nominated for the Golden Globe - and to create it on the cover of" Women's Health ".
New challenge: to play alongside Meryl Streep in "Die Verlegerin"
But the "craziest half hour of my life" experienced the 35-year-old a year ago when she suddenly had Steven Spielberg on the phone. She had auditioned for a role in the movie "The Publisher," just to gather some experience. And then the director called and told her that he wanted her for the role of Lally Weymouth, the daughter of legendary "Washington Post" publisher Katharine Graham.
Their newspaper threatened legal consequences at the beginning of the seventies, if they would use secret government papers for reporting. This mother is played by Meryl Streep, perhaps the greatest living actress ever. And that was, says Brie, "surreal, you sit opposite her and think, okay, what can I do wrong now?"
The fear was unfounded. This movie will force Brie to leave the usual serial paths more often. At the cinema, however, the working hours are much more irregular.
