![]() Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain-that's the peak, the climax of everything. Did you see yourself moving into performing? You've worked in fashion and as an artist. She'll always love Howard and she'll always keep the tattoo. So she runs away, and restarts her life, and eventually has a family of her own. She has to flee New York because all these gangsters are looking for her, all the people he owed money to. Howard had life insurance, his family's going to be great, and she gets away with the money. Rachel Luna // Getty Images How do you think Julia reacts to news of Howard's death? I really felt like the set was my home and those people were my family. He's so humble, so chill, and such a pleasure to be around. But then after meeting him and spending time with him, I was like, oh, this is gonna be a walk in the park. I was like, oh my God, how am I going to have this intimate scene? I just met him an hour before. ![]() The scene in the bathroom with the Weeknd. Was there a specific scene that intimidated you? The energy would shift because toward the end I was giving orders, keeping the momentum going when everyone else is tired. Toward the end, they were like, Julia's here. told me that at one point, when I would come to set, it felt like a movie star was coming. Sometimes you just got to perform, even in life, so I got used to it pretty quickly. I'm used to things changing, I'm used to having to keep going and not really stopping to think and stress out. But being a New Yorker, I adapt really well. When I got to set the first day and I saw 200 people, I was like, "Oh, shit! This is a major movie." I thought it was just going to be us and the homies. Julieta Cervantes What was your first day on set like? She would've tapped out a long time ago, whereas Julia is like, okay, what's happening today? All right, we're going to get through this.Īdam Sandler as Howard Ratner and Fox as Julia in Uncut Gems. A small town girl from Ohio couldn't do what she does. She carries the weight of all his tragedies that occur every day, so she has a lot on her shoulders. She's at his mercy because he's so crazy and she's always trying to pick up the pieces. Then at the end you're like, oh my God, she's actually the only redeeming character of this movie. It doesn't really seem like she likes him that much. She's with this older married man and he's a train wreck. In the beginning, the audience is like, hmm, she's a little seedy. Below, Fox opens up about her first-ever onscreen role, adopting a movie-star attitude, and where her energy is going next. Have you been stalking me?'" The result is a meta-performance, a marriage of Fox's past with the Safdie's frantic impulses that's garnering awards season buzz and landed the actress a Breakthrough Actor nomination at the Gotham Awards. "At the time I was dating a rich older man and we were together for five years, so I was kind of known for that." By the time Fox got her hands on the final script, she was the only option for the role. "I think they had already known that Howard was gonna have a mistress, but then when Josh met me he was like, it has to be her," Fox, whose past incarnations include artist and fashion designer, tells. ![]() Uncut Gems is based on the time the Safdies' father spent working in New York's Diamond District, but the role of Julia was written for Fox. And it's Julia who ultimately emerges as the last player standing as the film winds to a jerky close Howard dispatches her to place a bet on a Garnett game with his latest profit, a wager that leaves Howard with a bullet in his head and Julia absconding with the winnings. ![]() In a moment so pathetic it circles all the way back to endearing, Julia unveils a new tattoo for Howard in an effort to cheer him up after a gamble goes bad. ![]() She's flawed, for sure-a pivotal scene in Uncut Gems sees her publicly brawling with Howard over a chance encounter with The Weeknd in a club bathroom-but Julia is compassionate and loyal to a fault. His Howard Ratner can't stop placing bets with the money he owes other people and cheating on his wife (Idina Menzel) when his rare, uncut opal attracts the interest of the Celtics' Kevin Garnett, money changes hands faster than Howard can register the dollar signs, and he sinks further into debt in pursuit of the next, bigger bet.īut as Howard concocts scheme after asinine scheme to make more money off his next cash influx, it's his mistress, Julia, played by magnetic newcomer Julia Fox, who emerges as the film's unexpected hero. Their latest, the 10-years-in-the-making Uncut Gems, is a raucous journey through the gambling addiction of a Diamond District jeweler played by Adam Sandler. Directors Josh and Benny Safdie have built a career on cultivated chaos, crafting characters so addicted to self-sabotage, their decisions elicit audible dissent from a packed movie theater. ![]()
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