, Alana Haim gives one of the best debut performances in recent memory. The 30-year-old L.A.-based musician—one third of the Grammy-nominated bandalongside her older sisters Este and Danielle—plays Alana Kane, a listless 20-something from the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s who meets a charming 15-year-old actor named Gary Valentine . He asks her out to dinner and to her own surprise she agrees, marking the start of a joyous and frequently hilarious will-they-won’t-they romance.
Now, many months later, with the film in theaters and a spate of critics’ prizes under her belt, the shock still hasn’t worn off for Haim. When I speak to her on Zoom, on the eve of the BAFTAs and Critics Choice Awards, where she’s nominated for two best-actress prizes, she’s buzzing with nervous energy, quick to laugh, and forever resisting the urge to pinch herself.
One was the Shabbat dinner scene. [Editor’s note: In the film, Alana brings Lance, the guy she’s dating, to meet her parents and sisters, and he declines to say a prayer at the table because he is an atheist.] In real life, it was Passover, not Shabbat. My sister Danielle had a boyfriend who [we thought] was Jewish, but I guess he was an atheist. We didn’t know that until he refused to read the Haggadah.
Even though I had never acted before, Paul loved it when I followed my gut. If I could add something that would make people laugh, that would excite him. So the end of the Shabbat dinner scene is one example. What was supposed to happen originally was that after Lance refuses to make a prayer on the bread, I take him to his car and I cry. I say, “How could you do that?” I physically could not do it []. I did it four times and it just came out so angry.
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