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Elizabeth Moss remembered working on the exciting set of the award-winning 1999 film Girl interruptedwith Winona Ryder And Angelina Jolie. While appearing in a recent interview on SiriusXM’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa,” the said The Handmaid’s Tale Star, 41, explained why she found working with Angelina, 48, “intimidating” at the time.
“There were two types of camps. There was the Winona Ryder Camp and the Angelina Jolie Camp,” emphasized Elisabeth. “I was in the Winona Ryder camp and the Angelina Jolie camp was really cool. These were the really cool girls. I was so intimidated by the Angelina Jolie camp. I didn’t think I would ever be in that camp. It was so cool. It was all the cool girls.”
She then reiterated how tensions arose “off camera.” [it was] based on what was in front of the camera,” referring to the characters of Angelina and Winona. Angelina played Lisa Rowe and Winona, 52, played Susanna Kaysen, who become enemies in the film’s plot.
Although she felt uncomfortable at the time, Elisabeth admitted that Angelina was “pretty” and had “talked” to the Oscar winner in recent years.
“I’ve spoken to Angelina since then and she’s lovely, but at the time it was just incredibly intimidating.” The veil Series star noted. “I never brought it up and I’m sure she had no idea what I was talking about anyway. But I just wasn’t – I definitely wasn’t cool enough to be in their camp.”
Girl interrupted follows Winona’s character Susanna after she suffers a nervous breakdown and overdose. She is sent to Claymoore Psychiatric Hospital, where she befriends other patients, including Elisabeth’s schizophrenic character Polly “Torch” Clark. Susanna and Angelina’s character Lisa initially become friends, but Lisa is a manipulative sociopath who convinces Susanna to stop going to therapy and taking her medication.
Elisabeth’s final interview comes amid a busy period in her career. Not only is she pregnant and expecting her first child, but she has also been promoting her brand new Hulu show. The veil. While I speak exclusively to Hollywood lifethe Hulu star teased of her complex performance.
“I’ve always wanted to do that [something in] the spy genre, but that was 100 times so because Imogen is so many different people,” she noted. “And the person you meet in the beginning is a different person from the person you meet ten minutes later to the different person you meet in the second episode, and so on and so forth. So for me it was like this opportunity to play 10 characters in one project.”