Stacy Martin on risky roles, Oscars tequila and a Jurassic Park dream
A piece in Theguardian reports that Stacy Martin discusses her role in Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, playing Jane “Mother Jane” Wardley, a leader of the Shaking Quakers who influences Ann Lee. The film is described as a wild movie musical that portrays 18th-century Shaker devotion through song, dance and ecstatic choreography.
Martin says she has deliberately pursued director-led independent cinema since her breakout in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and often works with Fastvold and Brady Corbet as part of their recurring troupe. She recalls attending the Oscars for The Brutalist with Fastvold and Corbet and notes the ceremony provided alcohol under seats — “I think it was tequila,” she says.
Martin has written and directed a short and is attached to projects including The Queen of Fashion and a studio adaptation of Sense and Sensibility in which she plays Fanny Dashwood.