Julia Garner is in costume because the fashion-savvy, society wannabe and con artist Anna Delvey once I sit down with the Emmy winner in Marrakech, Morocco. And we’re not simply wherever in certainly one of Africa’s busiest and hottest cities—we’re at La Mamounia, a world class resort that is a vital setting for the sixth episode of Inventing Anna. We additionally occur to be sitting within the Riad, a personal bungalow, subsequent to the one the true Delvey stayed at when her large con began to unravel within the spring of 2017.
Once we speak, it is February 2020—unbeknownst to Garner and I, we’re lower than six weeks away from the world shutting down due to the coronavirus. However on the time, it is enterprise as normal, and Garner has been burning the candle at each ends between filming Anna, beginning manufacturing for the ultimate season of Netflix’s Ozark (the place she’s a double Emmy winner for her portrayal of Ruth Langmore), and selling her movie The Assistant at Sundance. “It is like I am dwelling Anna Delvey’s life,” she jokes of the extreme schedule that has taken her the world over. “After which in three weeks I’ll have [Ruth’s] Southern accent when Ozark begins up.”
However for now, it is all Delvey on a regular basis. A number of occasions all through our dialog, Garner—who’s sporting a printed kaftan that completely matches her lengthy, pink wig—does Anna’s accent for me. It is a journey to observe and take heed to, not only for me, however for Garner as properly, who retains interested by what it was like for the true Anna to remain right here.
“It is available in waves,” she says. “I am so busy interested by what is going on on with the scene and the way I am feeling in that second because the character, however at present it type of hit me. After I was leaning towards the wall ready because the shot was being arrange, I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m wondering if Anna was leaning on this very same spot on this very same wall as me. After which like, ‘Anna pressed this elevator button additionally.’ It is simply bizarre, you understand?”
On the time, it was laborious for me to completely perceive; however after seeing all 9 episodes of Shonda Rhimes’ restricted sequence, I get it greater than ever. Garner absolutely immerses herself as Delvey in a efficiency so charming that despite the fact that this explicit story ends after one season, I already want there was extra.
“It is nice being a part of the Shondaland household, however actually it is the half [that drew me in], it is that straightforward,” Garner says. “I used to be excited once I learn the scripts as a result of they have been actually good. If the half was simply good and the script weren’t, that will be dangerous. However that wasn’t the case.”
Clearly. Garner went to nice lengths to make that occur, whether or not it was advocating for pretend tooth to fill out her face, spending hours perfecting Delvey’s amalgamation of a Russian/German/American accent, and even assembly with the convicted socialite herself. “I used to be terrified despite the fact that I wished to fulfill her,” Garner says. And by all accounts, so was Delvey/Sorokin (her precise identify).
Supply: Glamour
