“Just to wake up and hear the birds, you do not hear planes or trains or cars … nothing. You only hear nature.”
Almost alone, at 8,000 feet higher in the remote Canadian wilderness, actress Robin Wright takes to the outdoors, instead of the nature in Washington. “Maybe because we shot ‘House of Cards’ at a scene for six years, we weren’t very outside,” she said.
“Ever?” asks correspondent Lee Cowan.
“Like never before! Let’s just really take a turn and go to the other end of the spectrum!” lag sy.
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Wright’s latest character is a broken woman who abandons everything she knows and retreats to a mountaintop in her new film, “Land. “
“What we have seen over the last four years has only encouraged more community in the world,” she said. “And I just wanted to make a film about human kindness.”
‘And do you think in the end that’s what it’s about?
“I do.”
Wright not only starred in the film, but also as a director.
Cowan said, “You certainly did not choose a logical film to be your directorial debut, did you?”
“No! No, did not think of that at the time.”
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Parts of this high terrain in Alberta can deliver four seasons, sometimes in one day. ‘You even have ten minutes four thousand people who have to ask you questions:’ Where do you want it, what do we do with it, da da da, what lens do we want ‘- and then you have to jump in front of the camera and have a exposition. And I would just take one, and then I would get dry, and I would be so mad at myself. ‘
She is used to playing both sides of the camera. She has directed a number of sequels to Netflix’s “House of Cards,” including the final season. And yet she remains one of a small group of women in Hollywood who receive the reins to direct.
Wright said, “Do I have to? Can I? Yes, you can? You can do it. You just have to be committed to your strength and your confidence that you can do it.”
Her roles are often strong women, which is even intimidating. Wright obviously has a softer side. Her Instagram shows it. Glossy photos, yes, but if you ask women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the pajamas Wright wears are a lifesaver.
Two decades of civil war have left the country in pieces. Rebels use rape as a tool of war.
Wright said: ‘If you are raped in the country, you are denied by your family because it is your fault. Their family has been dismantled, they live in refugee camps and walk three kilometers to get water outside a refugee camp, and do not know if you are going to be raped or killed every day of your life. ‘
So, money from the sale of those pajamas – under the brand name Pour le Femme – is going to help the women in the Congo and other conflict zones around the world.
If you think it may sound a lot like her ex-husband, actor activist Sean Penn, but those days are far behind her. Her two children with Penn are now adults, and Wright is remarried. She does her best to keep that part of life away from the glare of the spotlight.
Cowan asked, “Does a lot of work need to be private?”
“I do not know, do not you? You only become more thoroughly aware that you are private – to know what to share, and what not to share so in interviews, such things.”
Wright grew up in Texas, but moved to Southern California, where she began pursuing roles in John Hughes films as a teenager. “That’s all you wanted: you wanted to be in a John Hughes movie!” she said.
“Sixteen candles?” Breakfast Club ‘?’
“Oh yes! I read to everyone several times. And got none of them.”
“Damn, Molly Ringwald!” Lag Cowan.
But before the 80s ended, she landed the part of a princess in ‘The Princess Bride’.
Cowan asked, “Is there anything you did not ask about that movie after all these years?”
“I always get the same question over and over: do you believe in true love, as the movie says?” she said. “Yes, I do. And they always ask about Andre the Giant. Everyone wants to know what he was like.”
“Well, now I have to ask, how was he?”
“The sweetest puppy. Massive, gentle giant.”
A few years later comes her role as Jenny in “Forrest Gump.”
“It definitely opened a lot of doors for you, I think.” Cowan said. “Was it a little overwhelming?”
“This is what you want, but I was so immersed in being a mother. Why not just speed up your career? You have to become a star, and then dull the star? If you do too much, you become too “I knew I never wanted to be that.”
She did pace herself. When “House of Cards” first appeared, she was in her late forties, but before she took it, she still had questions for executive producer David Fincher: “I just do not have the desire to take time out of my life. take to be just not the poor candy of a senator on a show, or a governor. And he said, “I promise you, it will not be.”
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Her latest role is a different kind of strong. Her skills as a director are also different. But she is also barely finished.
Cowan asks, “Do you know what’s next?”
“I want to direct more,” she laughs.
“Do you see yourself being the camera forever?”
“For good? No. For good, no, I do not think so.”
After all, the view from her career mountaintop is pretty good.
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Story produced by John Goodwin. Editor: Joseph Frandino.