"Everyone is finally able to see Rose Byrne at her most unlikeable. As Linda in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is out now, Byrne brings a complicated character to life straight from the brain (and life) of writer-director Mary Bronstein. Back in January, we asked Byrne about crafting her exasperated personae, working with Conan O'Brien, and if she's ever had a ceiling crash down into her apartment."
"She had been working on it seven years total from the time we started. She sent me this script through my agent, and I was like, "Oh my goodness." It read so well. There were so many twists and turns. And the more surreal aspects of the movie were definitely on the page as well. And it's very elevated when you see it, but it's very much there when you read it already."
"As a nosy actress, you want all the information, and she was extremely candid with me. We had a great rehearsal process. I think it was two months of going to her house. We would just work three or four days a week and for hours on end and just talk and often just tell stories about being a mother or our kids. But we went through every paragraph, comma, and apostrophe."
Rose Byrne plays Linda, an unlikeable and exasperated mother in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Mary Bronstein wrote and directed the film and worked on it for seven years. Byrne received the script through her agent and found the surreal twists present on the page. Byrne and Bronstein rehearsed at Bronstein's house for about two months, meeting three or four days weekly and discussing motherhood and personal stories while refining the script down to punctuation. Byrne focused on Linda's life before the crisis to shape behavior during trauma. Byrne collaborated with the cinematographer to create a disassociated physicality; the camera's close proximity influenced performance. The film premiered at Sundance and is now released.
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