Parker Posey
Parker Posey
Parker Christian Poseyis an American actress and musician. Making her feature debut in Richard Linklater's 1993 cult hit Dazed and Confused, she became known during the 1990s after a series of roles in independent films such as Party Girland The House of Yesthat gained her the nickname "Queen of the Indies". She later played improvisational roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentaries Best in Show, A Mighty Windand For Your Consideration. Her other film appearances include You've Got Mail, Scream 3,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth8 November 1968
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.
I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.
Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense and you can commit a lot and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.
As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.
You're making a fantasy. You're making something real out of a fantasy. And then it no longer exists. It's heartbreaking to leave behind. I was devastated after Waiting for Guffman. I had never gotten so close to people I've worked with.
My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.
People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'
But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake
I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like