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At 25, Julia Garner has already carved out a career by playing anything but the girl next door.
Now shes gotten her first Emmy nomination for her role as Ruth Langmore in NetflixsOzark.
The first place that I was getting recognized was in coffeehouses in Brooklyn.
It was film students and hipsters in Brooklyn referencingElectrick ChildrenorWe Are What We Are, she tells me.
The drama received three Emmys in 2018 and nine nominations this year, including a second for Batemans directing.
But shes quick to correct that its not about Harvey Weinstein.
This girl is fairly new in the business, Garner explains about the role.
Its not about Weinstein.
Fuck nugget is one of my favorite swears from Ruth.
Do you have a favorite?Skinny bitch.
She was like, Shut up skinny bitch!
That was pretty funny.
But it has to always come down to fuck nugget.
I know this person.
Whose idea was that accent?
Or was it written into the script?The accent happened by accident.
Its really nerve-racking and terrible.
I had memorized my lines with an accent, and I just couldnt do it without it.
I thought that I wouldnt get the job because of it.
Then, a week later I got a call back.
Now, it makes perfect sense that she has an accent.
Do you think audiences feel conflicted about Ruth?
It kind of naturally happened.
When you play a character for so long, you start feeling what that persons feeling.
Ruths arc has changed so much from between seasons.
Whats it been like to develop her like that?I love it.
You dont want the same arc.
I feel my characters are not characters; I see them as people.
You cant really judge them.
And I love that [the writers] change her all the time.
Well, I dont want to say change because every year, people evolve, good or bad.
Last year, she was losing her sense of self, which is kind of an identity crisis.
But this year, shes conflicted about whether shes a Byrde or a Langmore.
She hasnt processed her fathers murder, but then again, thats a given that she wouldnt.
Ruth doesnt process anything dramatic that happens to her then it catches up to her and she explodes.
Its going to be a similar thing in season three, but in a different way.
Youve been acting for less than a decade, but you have done so much in that time.
Has there been a method to the madness?I feel very lucky.
You know what I mean?
Im really happy that Ive never gotten those.
At an early age, I knew that I wasnt going to get those roles.
Not that Im ugly, but Im not Hollywood-standard beautiful or that simple beauty.
I was kind of weird looking, different looking.
Especially at 16, I had weird curly hair and I had a gap tooth.
I still have my gap tooth.
I still look the same.
So, I get cult members.
I get pregnant Mormon girls.
I got a girl who was in love with a KGB secret agent who wore weird glasses.
And even now, Ive got Ruth.
Another word for weird is complex.That is a better word complexparts.
My most normal part was probably inGrandmaand still, something was off with her.
I still had to get an abortion.
And now youve got your first Emmy nomination.
How does it feel?Its just so surreal, I cant even wrap my head around it.
It just doesnt feel real.
And then two days before [the nominations], I got really nervous.
That would be terrible.The day of, I put my phone on airplane mode.
Later that day, my friends FaceTimed me and they told me.
