Interview with Actress Parker Posey: “It’s not easy as a woman in this business to have integrity”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck
- Germany -
• In Happy Tears, Parker Posey (left) and Demi Moore play sisters caring for their elderly father.
Photograph courtesy of The Berlinale. •
In her quest for authentic storytelling, she has opted for riskier projects. Barely forty, Posey already has 53 movie credits to her name. Some of her most memorable and celebrated roles have required taut emotional performances, portraying mostly eccentric and conflicted women. She is well known for her turns in Party Girl, where she played a hard partying 20-something in New York City, Best in Show as a hilariously high-strung dog owner and the controversial art film, House of Yes which deals with incest. Her sporadic appearances in blockbuster movies can be counted on one hand with small parts in Scream 3, Superman Returns and You’ve got Mail.
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