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Its one of those lines you really want to lean into, but it works better if you dont.
There was one time, on one take, when I said, blowjob.
It just sort of came out of my mouth.
You get lost in the role and you start manifesting other things.
Well, theres something more tragic and offhand about it just being a hand job.It feels very middle school.
Theres something sad about the thought of him with a straight boy who made him do it.
Its something extra-sad for Georgie.
In that scene, you come in and are immediately all up in Natalies business.
You eat the cornbread on the table.
You drink her water.
Was that in the script?It was not in the script.
I turned the chair around and really leaned into her space.
Hes a liar and an enigma.
Also, the thing I wanted to highlight with him is that hes very unnecessarily confident.
Hes playing in a band at the Crab Shack on Tybee Island.
There needs to be a sort of cockiness that is unearned.
Hes with this actress coming into town from a larger city.
He thinks hes on her level, but hes not.
Im from Ohio, and theres a different vibe of what artistic means in different cities.
So it was important that Georgie felt like a local cool artist.
Todd and the producers found the band he plays with in Savannah.
We ended up modeling my look off of how they dress.
We actually did so many costume fittings.
April Napier, our costume designer, was fantastic.
We had to figure out how to see to it he wasnt too cool or too outrageous.
He does something reckless with the hair, but the clothes are actually sort of thrifty.
We did some auditioning of where they should go.
But I wanted them there.
In case you saw them, youd be like, Okay.
Its not that Georgie has a drug problem but …
Hes done some exploring.
The first orange we used made me look like Ronald McDonald.
We had to go back and make it look less colored.
We just kept messing with my hair and ruining it, which made it feel right.
We were passing back photos of Johnny Rotten, which ended up being our main inspo.
He was my phone background while we were shooting it.
Was Georgie always going to sing Peter Frampton?That was in the script.
Todd had chosen those songs and I just picked the key.
I did sing live.
We recorded all the music in advance.
But once we got to the space, we just recorded everything live.
It had a great tinny sound and it just felt better.
Do you think he would be a good music supervisor?Absolutely not.
He has no idea what that job would be like.
Hes got judgments about everyone else, but he refuses to look inward.
Theres just a lack of willingness on his part to acknowledge he wouldnt be equipped to do that.
You see these scars on people and theyre not even aware of the damage that was done.
I know what I think, at the end, but I dont want to tell people.
Natalie starts that scene with me at the Crab Shack and shes actually kind of game.
For a moment, shes like,oh, another artist.
She perks up a bit.
She was really fun to work with in both scenes.
By the time you talk to her again after the dinner, that dynamic has changed too.
Shes much more exhausted by the whole family.And hes excited just to run into her again.
He thinks theyre building a relationship, and shes really not that interested.
Hes still very judgmental.
How do you imagine his relationship with Joe?
So when Joe pulls up in the car to pick up Elizabeth, theres no communication whatsoever.
Its just that moment of reliving all that awkwardness.
Youve been in Todds films twice in the past, inCarolandWonderstruck.
He just knows what he wants, and theres no trepidation or confusion.
He knows what he wants in certain areas and hes open to things in other areas.
Of the three Ive done with him, this role required the most creativity in developing.
I felt like I got to show up in a way and really contribute.
I worked with a dialect coach and showed up ready to present that to Todd.
And I was like, Im glad you said that.
I worked with a dialect coach.
I have a recording that I took of the bartender, with his permission.
I just played it over and over because he did a very specific thing that I thought was fantastic.
So that was my last-minute integration of real life.
Thats some very Elizabeth-style actorly research.Yeah, 100 percent.
