Sweet comedy’s serious heart.

Michael Bodey of the Australian speaks to Rose Byrne about her career and her thoughts on the different personalities of Ellen (Damages) and Beth (Adam).

“I really like Adam and with the smaller films you never know whether it’s going to have a life — I’ve been in plenty of films that haven’t — but it played very well at the Sundance Film Festival and I think it’s a real crowd pleaser,” she says.

Byrne says the film arrived “pretty randomly” after the first season of Damages, and was shot “on a wing and a prayer”. It doesn’t feel cheap, though, and has a cinematic quality, even if it was made in 25 days in what Byrne describes as “pretty basic conditions”.

“It was also freezing in New York, so there was those sorts of things to whinge about,” she laughs. “But I was just so drawn to the script, I thought it was such a great opportunity to do something different to Damages.

“The character’s spontaneous and instinctive and (Damages’) Ellen is a lot more restrained and controlled in a lot of ways, and the TV show’s a bit more restrictive.”

The 30-year-old also wanted to do more comedies, and this qualifies as a quirky kind of comedy. The film is essentially a two-hander, with Dancy’s Adam an intense, socially awkward young man who initially doesn’t appreciate the gift of Beth as a neighbour.

Full article and interview can be found here.