![]() The Florida Project is a perfect demonstration of this, as protagonists Moonee ( Brooklyn Prince) and her mom Halley ( Bria Vinaite) live in a run-down motel near Walt Disney World. They’re just removed from physical manifestations of prosperity. Set Design by Gary Card at Streeters.The characters in a Sean Baker movie tend to be so close to iconic locations or lavish domiciles, but they never quite get there. Hair by Ali Pirzadeh for Dyson Hair at CLM makeup by Daniel Sallstrom for Chanel at MA+ Group manicure by Michelle Saunders for Nailtopia. I think Sean saw my username and he liked that I was a Strawberry. And I picked serial killer because I just thought it would be funny and creepy. You just type it in on Google, and you can have a fairy name generator, or elf name generator. I really just needed a name, and I couldn't think of one. My Instagram username came from a serial killer name generator. Your character in Red Rocket is named Strawberry, and your Instagram handle is Did you do that because of the film? I think that's one of the last men I really liked. Brought me into the wings of the performing arts center and took me by the hand, and then we made out for like seven hours and skipped all of our classes, and it turned into a whole fiasco, but it was beautiful. What do you want them to be?" And one of the wishes was, "Could I have a kiss, please, before I leave?" He was so sweet. I was moving to a different school, and this boy said, "You have three wishes. My first kiss was in the wings of a stage, and it was beautiful. So take with that what you will, whatever that means. I had a poster of Hannah Montana on my ceiling. What posters did you have on your wall in your bedroom growing up? From what I remember, I think my mom turned it off when she found me watching it. I saw a real inappropriate one when I was probably too young: Barbarella. I would work out with my mom to her videos. No, but I really liked Jane Fonda's workout videos. Was there a movie that you saw when you were young that made you want to start acting in films? I feel like I probably should join and learn something. ![]() So I can't, just for the principle of it, but I feel like I'm missing out. No, because it's just so trite, and everyone expects me to do it. Sean just sent it to me the night before and said, “Learn this.” I had heard “Bye Bye Bye” before, but not this version. It’s beautiful, though.ĭid you get to pick the song, *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye,” or was that in the script? They're Strawberry's, too, but they're also mine. When you're singing, you're so yourself, and Strawberry's accent kind of goes away when I sing, and those are my breasts. What was it like to have so many nude scenes in one film?Īcting naked was free. I didn't make them, but the wonderful ladies who owned Donut Hole, they made them fresh every morning for us. ![]() I was in a wheelchair, but I didn't even care because I was so happy. He told me it would be like a guerrilla film. What did you think when you found out about the character you’d be playing? I went to Cornish College of the Arts, and I studied theater, but he didn’t know that I was an actress. Sean and his wife, Sammy, just came up to me and asked if I'd like to audition. So I was holding his cigarette kind of away from me while he was on the phone. I was on a date, and he asked me to hold his cigarette, and I was very upset about that because that's very stinky. ![]() I was seeing Don’t Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot. ![]() I ran into the director, Sean Baker, at the ArcLight. How did you get cast as Strawberry in Red Rocket ? For W’s annual Best Performances issue, Son opens up about filming in a donut shop, hitting the Cannes Film Festival red carpet in a wheelchair, and why her nude scenes in Red Rocket didn’t shake her. In the film, she plays a teenage donut saleswoman who gets wrapped up in the seedy world of Mikey Saber (Rex), a former suitcase pimp visiting Texas from Los Angeles. When his Red Rocket project finally took shape, she sent in a self-tape and landed the role of Strawberry, opposite former model and MTV VJ Simon Rex. Suzanna Son was on a date at the movies three years ago when she ran into director Sean Baker, the filmmaker who has a knack for plucking people off the street and turning them into stars. ![]()
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