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Rose Byrne Under Wraps How She Charmed the World with Her Hidden Talent JULY 31, 2016 + TALL ORDER: DOES YOUR DATE MEASURE UP? SHIFT YOUR CAREER UP A GEAR DECADENT PEANUT BUTTER DESSERTS ROSE BYRNE UNDER WRAPS HOW SHE CHARMED THE WORLD WITH HER HIDDEN TALENT SNS31JUL16p001 1 22/07/16 3:27 PM (cover_story) Roses She’s no garden-variety star. Rose Byrne is now in full bloom as a sought-after comic actor, says Tiffany Bakker 10 | SUNDAYSTYLE.COM.AU 11 SVS31JUL16p010 10 22/07/16 4:48 PM ose Byrne is pondering like I’m a big name,” she says. “I feel like her day job. “Acting is I’ve been very lucky in the people I’ve embarrassing, absolutely,” been able to work with.” she says, with a hearty laugh. In recent years, of course, there has R“Just the vulnerability it requires, whether been her much-vaunted emergence as in a performance or doing interviews. It’s a big-screen comedy superstar (more an odd thing, and it’s also a bit of a silly job. on that later), but she has just as easily I mean, it’s a great job, and I take it navigated indie drama (Adult Beginners), seriously and I’m passionate about it, but dramedy (The Meddler), horror (Insidious), I know I’m not curing cancer, so you have musicals (Annie), tent-pole franchises (the to have some perspective on it.” X-Men series), and television (Damages). When we meet, Byrne is mid-pedicure Ask her to reflect on her extraordinary at a downtown New York hotel, apologising success and she squirms slightly. “I don’t profusely to everyone, including Sunday Style know many people who ever relax and go, and the woman bent over her feet. “I’m sorry ‘God, I’ve arrived,’” she says. “You have to do all of this at once,” she says, slightly your good years and you have your bad flustered (like most of us Australians, she years, but you need to have a certain sort has an innate need to apologise). “But I’m of moxie to keep going. You still worry starting to run a bit short on time.” about where the next job is coming from, The reason for the multitasking is this: but you probably get a thicker skin; your aside from the fact she has a six-month-old battle scars are a little thicker.” baby at home, the actor is in the middle These days, the Sydney-born and bred of prepping for the new S/S ’16 campaign actor calls New York home. Byrne made shoot with Australian luxury goods brand the move in 2006 when she was cast in the Oroton – her fourth – for which she’s also role of young lawyer Ellen Parsons, opposite a brand ambassador. “They approached me Glenn Close’s alpha-female Patty Hewes, in to collaborate with them and I was thrilled,” the brilliant television legal drama Damages. “THEY KNOW AUSTRALIANS HAVE A HEALTHY SENSE OF HUMOUR. WE TAKE THE PISS” she says. “It’s one of the few heritage brands “Talk about great roles for women,” she in Australia and I’ve always gravitated says. “Here was a show that had these towards it. They’re always looking each two fantastically written female parts.” season to push it further and open up the When Damages ended in 2012, Byrne brand more, whether it’s internationally, felt “disoriented”. The longevity of the or to buyers of all ages. It’s that kind of show had given her something she hadn’t iconic brand for us as Australians. I feel really had before as an actor – stability. proud to have that connection to it.” “It was weird, I sort of didn’t know where Indeed, after a decade based in the I had to be, day-to-day,” she says. US, Byrne is keen to keep her Australian What Byrne did know was that she connections close. “I miss home,” she says. wanted to shake things up in more ways “It’s that strange thing of getting used to than one. She also knew she wanted to find being away from it and then, as a result, material that was less emotionally taxing. missing it. So when I go back, it’s more (Between the murders, manipulation and emotional each time, because time has subterfuge, her Damages character did not passed and everyone’s older, and I’m older enjoy a lot of laughs, let’s be honest.) So she and have a child now. It just has a different decided to give comedy a go, even though resonance than it did when I was younger.” her agents weren’t convinced. “I think they And though she may downplay it were a bit surprised,” she says. “But they (something she is wont to do), at just 37, know Australians have a healthy sense of Byrne is one of our most internationally humour. That’s what Aussies do – we take recognisable acting faces. “I don’t feel the piss out of each other.” 10 | SUNDAYSTYLE.COM.AU 11 SVS31JUL16p011 11 22/07/16 3:28 PM (cover_story) So Byrne auditioned for the role of Russell Brand’s on-screen girlfriend, British pop star Jackie Q, in Get Him To The Greek. The film’s director, Nicholas Stoller, initially wondered, “Why is she here?” when the “serious” actor turned up to audition, but Byrne was a revelation – reportedly even rendering renowned motor-mouthed Russell Brand speechless on set. Then a funny thing happened. Byrne became one of Hollywood’s most sought- after comic actors. Post-Greek, there was her brilliant performance as Kristen Wiig’s frenemy in Bridesmaids (the largely improvised scene between her and Wiig over who was a better friend to Maya Rudolph is, frankly, brilliant); followed by a performance as Seth Rogen’s wife in the frat-house comedy Bad Neighbours, and Melissa McCarthy’s coiffed foil in Spy. Byrne betrays a hint of crankiness as to why critics still seem surprised she can be so funny on-screen. (New York magazine put it down to the fact she is “naturally melancholic, with downturned pout and wounded Bambi eyes”.) “Well, they have to write something,” she says, bristling slightly. “Look, it’s nicer to surprise people rather than be predictable, so I take it as a compliment. But at this point, I’ve done a few [comedies].” Yet when it comes to women’s roles, “PULL QUOTE PULL QUOTE PULL there’s “still a lot of progress to be made”, she says. “It’s always money that will do the QUOTE” “PULL QUOTE PULL most changing in terms of what is a success and those sorts of things, but it’s tough QUOTE PULL QUOTE” when every other movie is a robot film.” “I STILL READ MOST SCRIPTS AND GO, ‘YOU KNOW, I’D REALLY RATHER PLAY THE GUY PART’” Not that she’s dissing her role as Moira in and behind the camera, that led Byrne and doing with their own production the blockbusting X-Men films. (“Around all four Sydney mates – actor Krew Boylan, companies. “Reese is probably my biggest those young actors, like Jennifer Lawrence director Shannon Murphy, writer-director inspiration,” she says of Witherspoon’s and Nicholas Hoult, you feel old, so I was Gracie Otto, and publicist-producer Jessica production company, Pacific Standard, just happy to be asked back!”) Carrera – to found collective The Dollhouse which has produced massive hits Byrne reckons there’s been a subtle Pictures. “We started to reach out to one including Gone Girl and Wild. change in the roles she’s being offered now another and say, ‘We’re stronger as a team The learning curve, however, has been as compared to five years ago. “Obviously than we are separately, so let’s try to come steep. “It’s definitely been challenging,” I’m less likely to be playing the ingénue, up with a think tank where we can bandy says Byrne. “Being on the other side of so you’re offered more parts of the wife ideas around,’” she says. “It was really things and discovering how projects are or the mother or friend,” she says. “I still about gearing roles towards women, and developed, and how difficult it is to find read most scripts and go, ‘You know, I’d developing projects for and by women.” funding – it’s a whole different way of really rather play the guy part.’” Byrne concedes the group is inspired by working for me, but I’m learning a lot.” Indeed, it was this frustration over the what actors, including Reese Witherspoon, Byrne says her female friendships are work available for women, both in front of Nicole Kidman, and Drew Barrymore, are “everything” to her. “They keep me honest, 12 | SUNDAYSTYLE.COM.AU 13 SVS31JUL16p012 12 22/07/16 3:28 PM they’re loyal, they challenge me. And I’m reasons my parents thought it would be Byrne met Cannavale in 2012 (when he very close to my mum and two sisters, so so good for me. I’d encourage every kid to won an Emmy the following year, he gave I’ve always had that bond with women.” do it, because it’s all about collaboration her an onstage shout-out as “the love of my Comedy is a central part of the Byrne and imagination, and I think it’s really life”). And while they manage to keep their family discourse (brother George makes beneficial when you’re growing up.” private life relatively low-key, they’re not shy her laugh “more than anyone”).
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