Ronan, in particular, “takes up space in a way that is not overbearing – it’s really inclusive”. Working with such veteran actors as Clarkson, Adams and Ronan instilled in her “a sense of confidence and ability to tackle situations like that when they come”, she says.
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In moments such as these and the film industry at large, Scanlen relies less on direct advice from her veteran co-workers than a model of how to conduct a career. There are “a lot of men I’ve worked with that are great”, she notes, “but it’s sad that it only takes a few to be angry about it”. Men have been in said positions for longer, “and it comes with a complacency and just maybe a self-righteousness I really despise”. “I think women in key creative roles – and I guess it’s because they haven’t had that opportunity at their fingertips their whole lives, it hasn’t always been available to them – they are more aware of the responsibility that it holds.” The different standards of professionalism is, she says, something she’s experienced on sets. She laughs at my mention of the comments now, having not expected them to generate a headline, but stood by them. Everyone should know what it means to be professional.” The ‘boys will be boys’ thing, I think that’s really the crux of it.
It’s also bolstered the confidence to call out double standards in December 2019, while promoting Little Women, Scanlen declared to the Independent that she was “tired of making excuses for young male actors by saying that they’re just boys and they’ll get over it. Working with Gerwig and Murphy in particular inspired her to plunge ahead with last year’s Mukbang, a short film she wrote, directed and casted with friends, on a teenage girl’s wire-crossing, world-opening foray into the niche internet corner of Korean “mukbang” videos in which creators eat large quantities of food on webcams. And if I want to try another creative role in the industry, then I can do it and there is nothing holding me back.”
To observe so many women in creative roles – writers, producers, directors, lead actors – has “imbued in me a confidence, a sense that I should be here, and that I deserve to be here. It’s unusual, Scanlen says, but still, she feels “lucky to have been thrust into the industry at a time like this, where women are being given the autonomy that they’ve always deserved and what the industry has needed for so long.”
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Given the still rampant gender inequity and underrepresentation of female directors, Scanlen’s Hollywood career has been remarkably full of projects led by women - Sharp Objects, based on Gillian Flynn’s novel and created by Marti Noxon, Gerwig’s Little Women, and now Murphy’s Babyteeth. Scanlen with Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh in Little Women. I learned a lot from watching them,” she says. So to arrive at the convivial Little Women set in Boston in summer 2018 – the March sisters shared an apartment in the city – and “to meet Emma and Florence and Saoirse, who had all experienced the same thing that I did. Her role as Amma was “emotionally turbulent, and I just didn’t really know what to do with that experience, because I didn’t know anyone my age who had that experience. The high-octane six months of filming and then promoting the series, far from her family and isolated in a new country, was “an incredibly scary experience for me”, Scanlen says. Scanlen booked Sharp Objects, with an audition Adams said “floored” director Jean-Marc Vallee, just weeks after graduating high school in Sydney and, at 18, moved to Los Angeles. “I think before I did Little Women, I was still quite afraid – I didn’t want to take up space,” she says. That fearlessness contrasts with how she describes the first year of her Hollywood career. On screen, Scanlen is unafraid to hold the center against such commanding actors as Sharp Objects’ Adams and Patricia Clarkson, Little Women’s Laura Dern. Her acting often teeters delicately between unhinged and deeply grounded, able to strike a tricky balance between poles – as Milla, a reverent, unpredictable teen staring down a bitter diagnosis, for example, or as Amma Crellin in Sharp Objects, the beguiling, rollerskating (spoiler alert) killer at turns sweet, saucy and terrifying. Since her breakout role in Sharp Objects just two summers ago, Scanlen has rapidly built a résumé of rangy, captivating performances.
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