Lucy Russell: How To Embrace The Highs And Lows Of Being An Artist

Was there a role that you really wanted but didn’t get? How did you feel about that experience? It’s ok to have a good cry about it! Actor/Coach/Creative Lucy Russell enlightens us in this week’s episode that when we lose a role that we really want, it’s the same as losing a person; our hearts do not know the difference. Let’s be kinder to ourselves and allow these feelings to come up in a wave and get them out of our body. You are not alone in going through these seasons of rejection; what’s meant for you will come to you.

In this episode:

Lucy’s journey in being her own compassionate critic when watching her performance.
The biggest and most beautiful thing about films is that any story can touch people in really unexpected ways.
How the uncertainty brought by the pandemic lead us to crave for stories with predictable endings.
Lucy’s plan of developing the incredible stories created by actors who didn’t think they could write.

by Chelsea Johnson | Cue to Cue

A little about Lucy:

Lucy Russell started acting in her late twenties, having tried too many other jobs to count and having got a degree in Italian and Business at UCL in London. Her first feature was also Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas’s first film, Following. After a couple of years of drama school, she played the title role in Eric Rohmer’s French language film The Lady and the Duke, (which had the most insanely beautiful hand-sewn costumes designed by Pierre-Jean Larroque).

She played Missy LeHand in CineNord’s Atlantic Crossing, which won the 2021 International Emmy for TV Movie/Miniseries and Steph in Toni Erdmann, the German nominee for Best International Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, named best film of 2016 by Sight and Sound magazine, by Film Comment and by Cahiers du Cinema.

She’s worked across genres with incredible directors in French and English: she’s been head of the CIA and MI5; a trophy wife; a serial killer; a UN delegate; a toxic mother; leader of a galactic empire; a cult member; generally been like a pig in sh*t exploring as many facets of human expression as she can get her dirty paws on.

She’s also a real person outside acting and has a life there, too, which, frankly, is not to be sniffed at.

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