![]() ![]() “ need a few different breaks, and they need to keep coming.” Secondly, she believes an actor shouldn’t rely on a single breakthrough moment in their career – or rest on their laurels if they get one. You want someone who has soul, you know?” the reason they’re only good and not great is because they’re lacking soul. Then you meet them and realize they’re not a great person, either. “I see actors who are great artists, they work hard and they’re good, but they’re not great. Garner believes the success she has achieved since is rooted in two things, the first being the ethos of “work hard and be kind”. Just a few months later, Shopmaker cast the then-16-year-old Garner in 2011 drama Martha Marcy May Marlene, where she appeared alongside Sarah Paulson and Elizabeth Olsen. The experience still proved to be pivotal, however, as it meant an introduction to casting director Susan Shopmaker. Kicking off her career in her teenage years, she didn’t manage to land the part at her first major audition – a leading role on the US version of Skins. I was just like, ‘What is this out-of-body experience?’” “I really liked the feeling of getting lost in the moment, saying ‘cut’, and getting back to reality. Garner’s mother enrolled her in acting classes early on to help her overcome her shyness. I grew up watching Turner Classic Movies and I always had this fascination with actors: Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Meryl Streep.” Born and raised in New York City to creative parents – her mother, then a comedian and now a therapist, was, as she describes, “on the Israeli version of Saturday Night Live” her dad is a painter and art teacher – she thinks her career choice makes sense. She might not have felt prepared for that precise moment, but in reality Garner has been gearing up to the win for over a decade. “Jason kept telling me I was going to win, and I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no’,” she insists, acknowledging that the surprise may have partly been due to her avoiding reading anything about herself on the internet, bar the very occasional review. It was scary-surreal.” Had she listened to her co-star, though, Garner – who was a frontrunner to triumph in the category – might not have been quite so shocked. “I can't believe I was even nominated, to be honest. “I’m still a little frazzled by it,” she reflects of the night. It was so endearing.’ I was like, ‘It was terrible!’” “I said ‘I love you’ backstage and she, ‘I loved your speech. “Phoebe Waller-Bridge said she loved my speech,” she laughs, remembering how she had started “going on about chocolate” at one point. Welcome reassurance came afterwards in Fleabag form. “Every single day I just feel so lucky to be doing this,” she added, while also admitting to just how nervous she was feeling. She also paid tribute to the role and path that had led her to that moment. While distracted by the illustrious audience (“I made direct eye contact with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones… threw me off!”), Garner managed to thank her co-star Jason Bateman, calling him her “guiding light from the beginning”. And I was like, ‘What the f**k?’ It was terrifying!” “When I walked up on stage, I took the award, I looked out and saw so many people. “I don’t remember anything,” the 26-year-old actor, best known to the world as spitfire Ruth Langmore in Netflix’s blockbuster series Ozark, says. It’s proving difficult, though, because she feels like she “full-on blacked out” in that moment. ![]() Julia Garner is trying to recall exactly what happened when she took to the stage at the Emmys last September to accept the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. ![]()
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