Ozark's Julia Garner brings a quiet #MeToo fury to The Assistant

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Julia Garner couldn't read before the age of 10. Now the rising star is winning international acclaim

It's the boss's wife on the phone. "Can you handle this?" smirks the young man with the biggest desk in the room; he's busy with a donut. "Why me?" says the young woman; the man smirks again. "He can't treat me like this!" shouts a voice at the other end of the phone. "The credit cards are blocked! All of them! Are you listening to me?" Yes. Yes, she is. The wife hangs up. We see the young man laugh; another bullet missed.

Garner gravitated to television because that's where she found her best scripts, but she missed movies. "And as soon as I saw good writing in a movie I wanted to do it, which was." The subject unnerved her, she admits. The Weinstein case was in full swing; there was a surge of stories from women – and some men – recounting searing workplace experiences ranging from rape to years of being needled and belittled.

"Because I think now, in this day and age, it's very easy to forget things. The internet is a blessing in lots of ways, but because it's so much information every single day, things don't matter as much." Garner is chary of social media, as she finds herself telling most interviewers. "I was probably born in the 1800s."

'I was always afraid people were not going to want to hire me because they were afraid of my learning disability,' says Julia Garner."I think the thing that drove me to acting is that I was very shy. I started taking acting classes when I was 14, so I had learned to read but I didn't have any confidence; I felt like everything I said didn't matter; I felt like an idiot because I felt illiterate.

 

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