"I don’t want to say it was easy because it wasn’t, but it came naturally. Once we were rolling, I was in character,” says Julia Fox of her first role in 'Uncut Gems.'
That driver isn't the only one who's been unable to take his eyes off Fox as of late. The 29-year-old took on her first acting job in Josh and Benny Safdie's two-hour adrenaline rush,playing a jewelry store employee and girlfriend of Howard Ratner, a gambling addict played by Adam Sandler. After the film's TIFF world premiere, she earned buzz for her portrayal of his rough-around-the-edges mistress, signed with WME and, in October, earned a Gotham Award nom for breakout actor.
Born in Milan to an Italian mother and American father, Fox's early years were spent living with her grandfather near Milan because of her parents' strained relationship. Her father, meanwhile, was "living in New York, like, figuring it out, trying to get an apartment and living on a boat." When he landed a construction job and signed a lease, Fox left Italy to live full-time in Yorkville, a posh neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
She credits a solid work ethic as one of the keys to getting out alive. "My dad didn't give me money, so I always had to work." She started off at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. "That's where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything," she says. She worked in an ice cream shop and pastry shop. "Then I got into the sex industry pretty young, doing S&M stuff.
She took her own advice and quit after a six-month stint to settle down with a boyfriend in a relationship that lasted six years. During that time, she partnered with friend Briana Andalore to launch a successful women's clothing line, Franziska Fox, until she outgrew that business and segued to a series of provocative art projects using trauma as inspiration., published in 2015, and 2016's— and hosted the art exhibit "R.I.P.
Fox threw herself into the role as much as she did any of her other projects, even going method for a scene in which her character stays up all night. "She looked beat, and I don't think she realized that we'd be shooting the same scene all day long. So like an hour or two in, she said, 'Oh my God, am I tired,' " Sandler recalls, laughing. "She was incredible. Very instinctive, and she played everything so real. I never knew what the heck would happen.
stop the activism, nobody cares
Is she still in the dominatrix game? Asking for a friend..
If she’s walked a long path, then her success wasn’t exactly “overnight” now, was it?
Dominatrix 😉
Uncut gems was kind of trash IMO
davidachanel thanks for putting me in to her and her journey my friend. ♥️
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