![]() ![]() And I really am enjoying the fact that I’m part of a generation of women in film where we can just tell interesting, complicated stories about people who happen to be women.” Whereas traditionally, if female characters put one foot out of line, from the sort of patriarchal ideals of what a perfect woman is like, then you have to watch them being punished for it. Male protagonists get to quite literally be serial killers and the audience still loves them. Paquin feels passionately that stories about “complicated women” should be told. Oliver Lansley, who wrote and created Flack, told Deadline Hollywood that with Robyn, he wanted to create a female character who could stand alongside “difficult men” such as Tony Soprano, Mad Men’s Don Draper and Breaking Bad’s Walter White. “I want people to absolutely love it, or, possibly, be violently like: ‘ How could you?’” Would she take that as a compliment? “Oh, yeah. “Some people will be offended, other people will be laughing so hard they’re going to snort coffee through their nose while they’re watching it.” That’s a state of affairs that suits her. In the first episode, Robyn has to cover up a philandering TV chef and a footballer’s drug-fuelled gay tryst, all the while juggling her own issues, which seem to involve a lot of cocaine. “Oh, it goes places, and it keeps going places,” Paquin says with a smile, admitting that it speaks to her sense of humour. It’s outrageous, a little bit camp and darkly comic in tone. The show is a lot of fun, and reminds me what good TV was like before shows developed grand cinematic ambitions. In Flack, Paquin is Robyn, a hard-living, self-destructive type who works in the crisis-management area of public relations. “I do have the luxury of being a little more choosy because of the circumstances of my career.” “I did one job, won an Oscar, and then people said: ‘Ooh, you have a career now.’” She points out, though, that there is a wealth of talented women in her age group, which means she will “still have to audition my arse off for stuff I really want”, but it does mean that she can generally work on things that she wants to. “I entered this industry in a very backwards sort of way,” she says. She has been in front of the camera since she was nine, when she was cast in Jane Campion’s film The Piano. She was born in Canada in 1982, but grew up in New Zealand, then moved to the US as a teenager for work. In person, Paquin is brisk, earnest and articulate, and careful with her words. I’m involved in every single aspect of every single decision.” She has spent five years trying to get it off the ground, in stops and starts, and they finished filming it just four days before we meet. She is dipping into her free time to talk about her new TV series, Flack, because she is not only starring in it, but executive-producing it, too, and it is co-produced through her own company, Casm. She has been working for two weeks straight, with no break at the weekend, and she has six-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. She stood, wide-eyed and gulping for breath at the microphone for a full twenty-something-odd seconds before delivering a gracious, though rather breathless thank-you speech.Anna Paquin is supposed to be having a day off. On Oscar night in 1993, Anna Paquin was the surprise (and surprised) winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Paquin's parents separated while she was filming Fly Away Home (1996) in Canada. "In the end", she says, "it's my decision". She has two agents, Gail Cowan in New Zealand, and the William Morris agency in Los Angeles, but neither these nor her parents have much influence in deciding what she films. Paquin's rising stardom has often been a cause of charming media shyness, where it is obvious that she is an ordinary girl who happens to posses an extraordinary talent. With a well-developed vocabulary and gentle sense of humor, Paquin proves herself to be the most enchanting young talent working today. ![]() Anna Paquin is the star of several major motion pictures, including her first Oscar winning performance in The Piano (1993), the role of the young Jane in the 1996 film Jane Eyre (1996), and the role of Amy Alden in the charming family film, Fly Away Home (1996). ![]()
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