Julia Garner who plays Ruth Liang more
in the Netflix series Ozark won an Emmy
for her role in the suspenseful drama in
2019
however garner has since revealed that
some scenes in the show weren't easy to
film Garner's character on the show is a
beloved rebellious badass with a
penchant for speaking her mind and
finagling her way out of sticky
situations and there's plenty of those
to go around when she's working for
money launderers Marty and Wendy Byrd as
the New York Times put it there aren't
many actors who can break your heart or
break your nose with equal aplomb but
that's the block garner has claimed in
her still burgeoning career but in real
life garner told W Magazine that she's
pretty different from Ruth who lives in
a trailer in the backwoods of Missouri's
Ozark Mountains talking about the stark
differences she said are you kidding me
I'm from Manhattan I'm some Jewish girl
from the Upper West Side like I should
not be here in fact garner couldn't even
face one of her biggest fears in order
to shoot a pivotal scene something she
will remember forever specifically she
can't stand Rodin's during season 1 of
Ozark Gardner holds a mouse by its tail
so her character can test out a plot to
kill Marty involving a metal boat the
lake and an electric current the problem
with the scene for her was the mouse I
thought I could do it and I nearly got a
pant I couldn't hold the mouse from even
thinking about it just makes me cry she
told w magazine the crew urged her to
just think of the tail as a phone
charger or a piece of spaghetti to that
she said I was like I'm never going to
want to charge my phone or eat pasta
ever again this is gross that wasn't a
case of a privileged diva making a fuss
over something she deemed beneath her to
her the fear was real Gardner explained
I went to the bathroom to wash my hands
and then I realized I couldn't breathe I
was like oh my god I was seriously going
to faint from this little mouse garner
felt embarrassed by her reaction but she
could not overcome her phobia so they
had to take a double and that was not my
hand it's I could do everything else I
just couldn't hold him mat I was it was
terrible garner may not have been able
to nail that
from a scene with a mouse but she's
earned critical acclaim for mastering
the other elements of Ruth Lang Moore's
complex character including her Missouri
drawl she told W Magazine I wanted to
make sure that I did it right garner
said she worked hard before auditioning
for the part to try to ace the southern
dialect but she second-guessed her
efforts when she realized others weren't
auditioning with an accent
she told fashion magazine and I couldn't
remember my lines when I wasn't doing
the accent so I just had to do the
accent and it worked
putting on Ruth's accent helps garner
transform something she says it's quote
like almost wearing a wig you spent $900
on Jack Daniels and fireworks and for
the record life's not fair
you'll be thanking me when I parlay that
coin into a better roof over your head
she also keeps a fascinating fictional
journal of sorts telling W Magazine I
don't write a journal personally but I
have an acting journal where I write as
the characters that I'm playing garner
also said something very telling in an
interview with meta Porter the young
star quipped I think art is most
interesting when it contradicts itself
in many ways Garner's journey has melded
together contradictions she may have
been too afraid to hold the mouse but at
the same time she's matured and grown up
alongside the character of ruth blaine
moore in season 1 ruth was a child in a
lot of ways now she's becoming more of a
woman I can say this because I am at
that age myself that's really weird
you're transitioning from a young adults
to an actual adult she may be garnering
rave reviews for her role but garner
doesn't let it go to her head no matter
what she believes artists need to work
hard and be kind considering the New
York Times called the actress the quote
tough but tender heart of Ozark it's
clear she's been heating her own advice
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