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Sunshiine Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 The Face ph David Roemer Quote Angourie Rice is Hollywood’s newest, nicest Mean Girl Call Sheet: the Australian actor has already played Peter Parker’s classmate, Nicole Kidman’s pupil and Kate Winslet’s daughter. Next up: an Apple TV+ thriller and an all-singing take on that ’00s teen classic. CULTURE Words: Craig McLean Photography: David Roemer13th April 2023 If it’s Thursday, it must be the day after Wednesday. “And on Wednesdays,” says Angourie Rice, beaming from her kitchenette, “we wear pink.” As any fan of early ’00s Hollywood high school comedies knows, that’s a line from Mean Girls. The 2004 film, in which naive 16-year-old school newbie Cady is inducted into the cliquey world ruled by the rich but insecure ‘Plastics’, is now a generation-spanning cult classic. Success, of course, breeds IP exploitation. Like Hairspray (another rite-of-passage tale) and The Color Purple (a very different rite-of-passage saga) before it, Mean Girls became a Broadway musical. Now, like both those films, that stage musical is being adapted for a new film. And Rice, the 22-year-old Australian previously best known for playing Kate Winslet’s daughter in HBO’s 2021 crime drama Mare of Easttown, is Cady, the character immortalised by Lindsay Lohan. Even if you’ve already joined the MCU (Rice is Betty Brant in the three Tom Holland-era Spider-Man movies), those are big metallic pink kitten heels to fill. “It’s so daunting!” admits Rice, gamely, as we talk over Zoom from the accommodation she’s renting for Mean Girls: The Musical’s near-three-month shoot “somewhere” on America’s East Coast. Born in Sydney and named after a New South Wales beach that was a favourite of her grandmother’s, Rice was three when Mean Girls was released. But she later watched it repeatedly with her sister on a portable DVD player. “I remember exactly how a scene plays or exactly how Cady says something,” Rice says. “You have to find that balance of honouring the original, while also trying to put your take on it. You want to bring your own new thing to it.” Rice has been acting professionally for over half her life and is more than prepared for the role. A keen knitter, she’s just finished a pink jumper for those Pink Wednesdays. Rice is crafty in other ways, too. In March 2019 she launched The Community Library, her elevator pitch for which is: “An Instagram and podcast about stories, and how and why we tell them.” A voracious reader, she was looking for a creative outlet after graduating from high school. “Because as much as I adore film, as an actor there’s so little control that you have over your career and over your creativity. I wanted something where I was my own boss and I made the decisions. And also I wanted to share with people my love of books.” She’d love to emulate Reese Witherspoon, whose own book club was one of Rice’s inspirations, in developing popular books into films or series. Neatly, Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company is also behind Rice’s other current project, The Last Thing He Told Me, a glossy Californian mystery miniseries for Apple TV+. Rice convincingly plays another aggy teen, this one a 16-year-old whose relationship with her stepmother (Jennifer Garner) grudgingly shifts from sullen to cooperative as they investigate the sudden disappearance of her dad (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Did she read that source book? “I did. After I auditioned, I got all the scripts and then I read the book. That was a strange way to do it. But I loved the book. I read it in three days.” Want to know the other scripts Rice has read, convinced the job was never going to be hers? The blockbuster gig she landed as a 15-year-old during a free period at school? The hardest word to say in Mare of Easttown’s Pennsylvania accent? OK, the answer to that is “watermelon”. But here’s all the other Call Sheet juice… “It was also absolutely daunting going toe to toe with Kate Winslet. I was terrified” The biggest lie I’ve ever told to get a part was… I don’t think I’ve told any lies to get a role. I didn’t even exaggerate anything to get the Spider-Man role, because I didn’t think that I’d gotten it. That was such a weird and long process. I got a call in the middle of recess and my mom drove to school to hand me the phone. She was like: “I know you thought this job was gone. But they’re on the phone now offering it to you.” And I had to go to the edge of the school property to speak to these Marvel producers. My friends were saying: “What was that?” And I was like: “I can’t say…” Then I had to go back to class, carrying this big secret. I was 15. The most bonkers costume I’ve ever worn for a part… Logistically, all the dresses I wore in [Sofia Coppola’s] The Beguiled, which was set during the American Civil War. We all had corsets, evening gown dresses and three or four different petticoats. I remember sitting down on the floor being surrounded by this marshmallow of petticoats. The one thing I have to have in my trailer… I’m obsessed with these fig bars called Nature’s Bakery. And they come in raspberry, blueberry and “original fig”. I just love them. My most Hollywood diva moment was when I… …asked for three boxes of Nature’s Bakery fig bars. That was yesterday! One item that travels everywhere with me is… Always a book, and my fairy lights. I have these plug-in string lights that I bring with me. Because wherever I am – Airbnb, hotel, whatever – it just makes it so much more homey to have them above the bed. The co-star who left me the most starstruck was… [The Beguiled co-star] Nicole Kidman. She’s just one of the biggest stars in the world, so how could you not be starstruck? It was also absolutely daunting going toe to toe with Kate Winslet. I was terrified. That was another one where I auditioned twice and thought: “I don’t think this will go anywhere.” Then they said: “We’re setting you up for a meeting with the director and producer.” I thought it was going to be a general meeting where they would give me notes and I’d have to audition again. But they offered me the job. They said: “Yeah, Kate watched your tape as well and she’s really excited.” And I was like: “Oh-kaaaay…” I was so, so, so nervous to meet her. But she was so lovely and she made everyone on that set feel at ease, especially because it was such a big show and such a scary undertaking. “If you don’t travel with someone, if you don’t have a guardian with you, if you don’t have a friend with you, it can be a really lonely job” The best piece of advice I’ve got in the industry… I made The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Reynolds when I was 13… And I remember them telling me just to have fun with it. I was such a stickler for saying the exact right words. I was that kid who knew all my lines – but I also knew all of their lines. I knew the entire scene back to front. One thing I wish I’d known about being an actor is… That it’s really long hours. I worked as a kid, so I learnt so much of it early on. But once you turn 18, you no longer have [to have] your parents with you. That was when I learned: if you don’t travel with someone, if you don’t have a guardian with you, if you don’t have a friend with you, it can be a really lonely job. The TV show I’m bingeing at the moment is… This is so bad: the only thing I’ve been watching is The Last Thing He Told Me because I just got the [finished] episodes. The other thing I’m watching, which I actually can’t binge because it’s coming out weekly, is the new season of Party Down. Because I loooved seasons one and two. And Jen Garner is in season three, so it’s perfect! My dream role is… Something in a period drama. I’d love to do an adaptation of a Jane Austen book. I love her. I dunno if I have the period English accent yet. But you bet that as soon as the cameras start rolling, I’ll have it! The Last Thing He Told Me is on Apple TV+ from 14th April speedy at picturepub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshiine Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 POPSUGAR ph David Roemer Quote "The Last Thing He Told Me"'s Angourie Rice Is the Queen of Teenage Angst Angourie Rice is an expert at playing a teenager, even though she turned 22 this past January. Last year, the actor starred as the teenage version of Rebel Wilson in Netflix's "Senior Year," as well as a hilariously driven student in the irreverent comedy "Honor Society." Rice also appeared in the MCU's Spider-Man movies as Betty Brant, and in 2021's "Mare of Easttown" she played Siobhan, Mare's stubborn daughter. Now, in Apple TV+ series "The Last Thing He Told Me," based on Laura Dave's bestselling novel of the same name, Rice stars as reeling high schooler Bailey opposite of Jennifer Garner, who plays her stepmom, Hannah, whom she can't connect with, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays her missing dad, Owen. "What I really liked about Bailey is that she had such a clear idea of what she loved and what she wanted to do," Rice tells POPSUGAR. "I really love that Bailey has this really strong idea of who she is and what she wants, but it's so shattered when her dad disappears because her idea of who she is is intrinsically, inextricably linked with her dad." "I liked the idea that Bailey loves musical theater so much because it allows her to enact stories that she might not have in her real life." The main relationship in "The Last Thing He Told Me" is between Bailey and Hannah; Bailey doesn't accept Hannah as her stepmom, but after Owen goes missing they have no choice but to come together. "Olivia Newman, who directed three of the episodes and is an executive producer as well, pitched it to me as a mother-daughter love story, which I really loved," Rice says of her audition process. "It's about two women who don't know how to be in each other's lives. And throughout the course of the story, they learn how to do that." Garner, Rice says, was "an incredible person to work with." Before shooting even started, they sat down with Dave and Josh Singer (who wrote the series together) to talk through all the scripts, which she says was "so rare" and "such a treat." Something Rice has in common with her "The Last Thing He Told Me" character is a love of musical theater. The day Owen goes missing, Hannah has to pick Bailey up from play rehearsal. Plus, the latter's bedroom at home is filled with posters for her favorite musicals. In real life, Rice is currently in production for the movie adaptation of the "Mean Girls" musical. In her Apple TV+ series, the actor uses her musical theater chops as her character sings "Anyone Can Whistle" at school. But she also performed another song that was cut from the show: "She Used to Be Mine" from "Waitress." Rice explains, "Both [songs] really connect with Bailey as a character, and it's so beautiful for Bailey as this moody teenager, she is able to say and express how she's feeling through musical theater rather than through words." "Musical theater and art, it gives you something to hold onto," she continues. "It gives you stories when you might not have stories." Bailey, she says, doesn't have a lot of stories in her life. "She has her entire life with her dad, but how much does she know about her mom? How much does she know about her life before her mom died? Probably not much at all," Rice notes. "I liked the idea that Bailey loves musical theater so much because it allows her to enact stories that she might not have in her real life." One of Rice's favorite days of filming "The Last Thing He Told Me" was when she and the cast filmed a flashback scene where Bailey, Hannah, and Owen all get dinner together. "That was really fun because Jen and I both love Nikolaj and we missed him so much," she explains. After Coster-Waldau's character goes missing in the first episode, he's only seen briefly in the series through flashbacks. "For that scene, we were so excited to see him again, and he's so lovely and a bundle of energy and just always brings something fun," Rice adds. Rice was the youngest cast member on the set of "The Last Thing He Told Me," but for the "Mean Girls" movie musical, she's among fellow rising Gen Z stars like Auli'i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp, "The Summer I Turned Pretty"'s Christopher Briney, and "Senior Year"'s Avantika Vandanapu. "They told me I can't say anything about it," she warns of the film's production. However, she is allowed to dish about her costars. "Everyone is so incredibly talented, but also I think everyone has an energy that matches each other," Rice says. "We all really, really get along, so that's been really nice, just that we're all on the same page with the way we work and all of that." "It's very weird to see your coming of age captured and frozen in time in a movie franchise." Rice never actually got to see the "Mean Girls" musical since it hasn't gone to Australia yet and the Broadway production was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. But she says she's seen the movie innumerable times. "I called my mom yesterday. She was like, 'I can't believe you are there. I would just remember watching that movie with you over and over and over again,'" Rice shares. The 22-year-old actor admits that there are some odd parts of playing a teenager on screen during her actual teenage years and into her early 20s. She filmed "Spider-Man: Homecoming" in 2016 when she was just 15. "It's very weird to see your coming of age captured and frozen in time in a movie franchise," Rice says. Though she hasn't watched the movies since they were released, she jokes that she might watch "Spider-Man: Homecoming" on a plane one day. To this day, Rice still keeps in touch with her Spider-Man castmate Tony Revolori, who helped round out the group of teens at the high school attended by Tom Holland's Peter Parker and Zendaya's MJ. "We text every so often, asking about each other's families, and that's really nice," Rice says. "We've known each other for seven years now, and when we met I was halfway through high school and now I'm an adult." As Rice leaves her onscreen adolescence behind and looks to the future, she admits she'd love to do a Jane Austen adaptation. "Clueless" and the 1995 BBC "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries are her favorites, and she'd love to play the title hero in "Emma" one day. "But also to play Elizabeth Bennet is also a dream. I feel like she's one of the greatest literary characters," she says. But first, Rice is putting her own foot in the adaptation game. She and her mom, Kate Rice, have written a modern adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" called "Stuck Up and Stupid." It'll hit bookstores in Australia this fall, and she's hoping for a US release date soon. The actor and her mom, she says, are a perfect creative pair. "I can't imagine writing alone, and I can't imagine writing with anyone else," says Rice. "It was so good to share the work, and we know each other so well, and we both have the same sort of sense of humor and the same ideas and same style of storytelling." For now, though, Rice is excited for fans to get wrapped up in the "intriguing mystery" of "The Last Thing He Told Me." When she got the scripts, she stayed up late in the middle of production to keep reading about what happens in the show, and she thinks fans will be hooked, too. "The Last Thing He Told Me" premieres on Apple TV+ on April 14. 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