Claire Foy talks playing a parent to Andrew Scott, who's eight years older than her, in All of Us Strangers
Jan. 25, 2024Exclusive: Claire Foy discusses Andrew Haigh’s haunting new romantic drama, All of Us Strangers
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Claire Foy is no stranger to challenging roles. She’s played Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, fated Tudor queen Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall, and astronaut Neil Armstrong’s wife Janet inFirst Man. ButAll of Us Strangers, a haunting new romantic drama from director Andrew Haigh, is the first time she’s played the mother of a man nearly a decade older than her.
“People do whole films against a green screen where there’s nothing there. So much of [acting] is an imaginative process where you have to convince yourself to be in some suspended reality or believe something’s happening that’s not happening,” Foy tells GamesRadar+ and the Inside Total Film podcast.
“To be fair, though, I think Andrew did all the work – he did so much of his physicality and the way he was behaving around us made it so easy for us. Jamie and myself are both parents and so I think there was a shorthand there for us, which was lucky. But I love him. He is a truly amazing person and to be his parent was a very prideful thing. I felt very proud of the man that he was.”
All of Us Strangers arrives in UK cinemas on January 26. For the full interview with Foy (and a chat with Scott and co-star Paul Mescal), tune into the latest episode of theInside Total Film podcast, out now.
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