) to break into his office safe in order to give them some trade secrets. Just as she finds herself and her children staring down the barrel of a gun, Mary also discovers that her marriage is a sham when one of the robbers casually notes that her husband is sleeping with his boss’ secretary. Seimetz expertly plays her fear and mounting resentment, while nursing an ever present cigarette, providing a masterclass in slow-burn outrage.
Yes, and that was very much true of my grandmothers. It’s not that they weren’t maternal or anything, because they loved their children and their grandchildren, but they had their own existential crises. They didn’t want to be homemakers, so to speak, but they felt like they didn’t have other options. I used that.
Your character is thrust into this insane situation where she’s being held hostage at gunpoint while having to process the revelation that her husband has been having an affair. What was it like to portray that?
She was also terrific in Upstream Color.