‘Maid’ Star Margaret Qualley on Building Relationship With Child Actor Rylea Nevaeh Whittet: “We Were Really Glued Together”

In the critically acclaimed limited series created by Molly Smith Metzler, Qualley plays Alex, a woman who decides to leave her abusive relationship with her daughter in tow. To make ends meet, she starts cleaning houses while trying to be the best mother she can possibly be to Maddy.

“She made that child an actress — you can’t get that kind of performance from a child,” MacDowell tells. “It takes so much patience, and she created that with this child. This child adored her and was so comfortable because she spent every weekend with her. Every moment that she was on set, she was with Margaret as if it she were her mother. They had this real bond — it wasn’t fake. It really made a huge difference and it was a gigantic undertaking.

Adds MacDowell, whose character suffers from an undiagnosed mental health disorder: “My first scene with Rylea was a wackadoodle scene. [I’m] painting, and they showed up [as] I’m in one of my manic highs where my speech patterns are off — and she was terrified of me. I had a really hard time working through that thing, but then later we were able to explain to her that I’m acting.

“It’s a beautiful feeling as a mother to have had this experience with her and for it to be so well received and for it to touch so many people,” says MacDowell. “When it first came out, I was coming from London and people at the airport would recognize me and would tell me how touched they were — and I would say, ‘The lead is my daughter!’ To watch their faces was so much fun, to see them realizing it was my daughter and how much they loved her.

There were two scenes that balanced out the emotionally tolling scenes, though, one when Alex swipes through men on a dating app with stereotypical profiles. “Luckily, I was off-camera for that, because I was definitely chuckling along,” Qualley remembers. “It was kind of a fun, lighthearted reprieve from the rest. That was just a fun departure for me.”

We loved this series, excellent acting from everyone🐇🐇😍😍👍🇨🇦

It was such a well done series. I felt so attach to the characters and had no idea she was Andie’s daughter IRL.

The show is great

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

'Bachelor' Nation Star Ivan Hall's Brother Charged with Murder'Bachelor' Nation star Ivan Hall's brother has been charged with murder. BLM Sad 2BlkGirls1Rose 😔
Source: TMZ - 🏆 379. / 59 Read more »

The People’s Choice: Rapper Polo G Is 2021’s Rising StarWhen Polo G began planning the rollout of what would become his breakout single, “Rapstar,” the song didn’t even exist — at least not in its current form. Instead, both the creation and promotion o…
Source: Variety - 🏆 108. / 63 Read more »

'Harlem' star says show expands the vision of what's possible for Black queer women“I’m always speaking to those people who are from where I’m from, who want to see people like them ... and that is so, so, so important to me — just so we can expand people’s visions of what’s possible,” says 'Harlem' star Jerrie Johnson. Thank you so much Bryan_Conn for bringing this joy and happiness into my life. Since he introduced me into binary options my life has changed because I've been earning massively. I started my investment last 2 weeks with $500 and I've earned over $10k now. A win for 2021
Source: NBCNews - 🏆 10. / 86 Read more »

Bridgerton star opens up about tough season two momentBridgerton actress Adjoa Andoh has opened up about a particularly difficult moment from season two, admitting 'We all had a bit of a lump in our throat'
Source: hellomag - 🏆 24. / 68 Read more »

'America's Got Talent' star Jay Jay Phillips dead at 30Phillips appeared on Season 4 of the NBC talent competition series and was eliminated. A guy who failed died? Slow news night? Hard to believe he was unvaccinated.
Source: FoxNews - 🏆 9. / 87 Read more »