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'Ozark' Star Julia Garner Calls Herself A 'Big Dreamer,' Says She Wants To Continue Playing 'Strong, Complex' Female Characters
After Julia Garner wrapped filming for the first half of Ozark's final season, the actress had just a three-week break before taking on her next role of Anna Delvey, who's the subject of Netflix's upcoming series Inventing Anna.
The show tells the real life story of Delvey, a woman who conned her way around in NYC to become a socialite, only to get caught and convicted in 2019. To prepare for the role, the 27-year-old star worked with a dialect coach to perfect her German accent and even visited Delvey in jail.
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Mimicking Delvey's voice was the "hardest accent I’ll ever do," the New Yorker revealed to Town & Country, but her hard work clearly paid off, as producer Shonda Rimes noted, "Julia spent a lot of time perfecting it, and ultimately I think it was one of the biggest pieces in helping embody this character."
Though Delvey and Garner don't have much in common, the Emmy winner shared that "she’s a big dreamer, and I would consider myself a dreamer. In the business that we’re in, you have to be."
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Whenever the Americans alum takes on a new role, she likes to become fully immersed in the character and keeps a journal by her side throughout the filming process. While her technique helps her put on a stellar performance, there are also a few downsides.
"When I really know the character, I start feeling all their feelings," she noted. "My anxiety was through the roof, and I realized it was because Anna had really bad anxiety."
At one point, Garner started sleep-talking in Delvey's accent. "My husband was like, 'This has gotten out of control,'" she recalled.
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Going forward in her career, the blonde beauty wants "to continue playing strong, complex women."
"I love switching people’s minds when they’re going back and forth about a character," she said. "People don’t necessarily have to agree with what [Delvey] did, but I want to help people try to understand why she did it."
Inventing Anna starts streaming on Netflix on Friday, February 11.