Hair by Mara Roszak at A-Frame Agency Makeup by Kara Yoshimoto Bua for Chanel Beauty Manicure by Emi Kudo for Chanel Le Vernis Produced by Meghan Gallagher at Connect the Dots. “Because the system’s broken and we are in a divided country,” she says, “and this is through the lens of love.” ▪
I’m sitting pretty right now, so hopefully I’m able to bring Stephanie Land’s voice into the forefront.” I ask her why she feels this is a particularly important story to tell right now. “I come from a really privileged background, a really privileged life. “I’m doing this job and I’m super grateful, but it’s not my voice that needs to be heard right now,” she says. That awareness is part of what drew her to Land’s story. (Her mom is Andie MacDowell, who’ll also play her mother in Maid.) And she is keenly aware of the advantages she’s had. Though she grew up in Montana and North Carolina, Qualley is a daughter of Hollywood. I’m terrified right now,” she adds, with her first day on a new project coming up. It’s easier to dive into freezing-cold water than to wade your way in.” So she wasn’t intimidated to be sparring with Brad Pitt or Michelle Williams as her scene partner? “Oh, just because I like to jump into the water doesn’t mean I’m not scared,” she clarifies. Qualley has been acting since she turned 16, when she quit ballet and moved to New York City by herself, an experience she describes as “jarring, but also the greatest thing ever. You’ve got to have structure so that you can dance.” Maybe that balance is why her characters never feel trapped in the amber of a “type,” whether she’s playing a nun-in-training in Novitiate, Justin Theroux’s troubled daughter in The Leftovers, a strung-out Manson girl in Once Upon a Time.in Hollywood, or Broadway legend Ann Reinking in Fosse/Verdon, for which she received an Emmy nomination. “I think we all create our own rules for ourselves so that we can play in a certain way, but there’s a balance. “All different kinds of play are fun to me.” As a ballerina, though, she got used to restrictions. “I like to play, like a little kid,” she says. (It’s an example of what she calls her “puppy energy.”) The moves were courtesy of her ballet training, while the spontaneity came from her next passion after ballet, improv. Even though it was less than four minutes long, that performance proved to the world that Qualley was incredibly game, without the usual starlet brand of hesitancy.
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