The Irish actress reflects on Charlie Kaufman’s mind-bending I’m Thinking of Ending Things and other upcoming projects.
The less I talk, the better."
Unfortunately for the 30-year-old Irish actress, her rich lineup of new projects demands discussion.
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So here she is, sitting in her garden in London, trapped on a Zoom call with EW.
“I’m much better at talking in somebody else’s shoes than my own,” she insists.
“I need other people’s shoes.”
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She’s got good taste in strange footwear.
“There was just no valve for expression.”
You might say her other new movie has the opposite problem.
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“It’s a questions film.
It’s an art piece.
You don’tgetthose pieces,” Buckley says of her fortunate casting.
“It’s such a thrill to be challenged like that.
Immediately you feel like you’re creating.”
“It was a very stressful experience for everybody,” Kaufman admits of the wintry 24-day shoot.
“In the midst of all that, Jessie was justpresent.”
The grand affair ofI’m Thinking of Ending Thingsexhausted her, but it was worth it.
It can feel like there’s nothing finite about the present moment, either.
“I guess none of us really know who we are, anyway.
“An imagination can be a survival, in a way.”
And thank God for that.
“I hope that will happen,” she says.
So many different pairs of shoes!
It’s more of just a feeling, I guess.”
I like those things in life.
I like the crunchy things in life."
Indeed, she’s giving us plenty to chew on.
