Joey King is reuniting with her co-star Patricia Arquette! The actresses, who played Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Dee Dee Blanchard in 2019′s The Act, came together on stage during Powerhouse Performances: An Evening With Joey King & Riley Keough as part of Disney FYC Fest at the DGA Theater on Saturday (June 1) in Los Angeles. “I’m very happy to be here tonight.
And I’m going to bring out an actress who I have an incredible amount of respect for. I worked with her on a show called The Act.
And she’s one of the most talented and generous actors that anyone could ever hope to work for,” Patricia said as she introduced Joey to the crowd, via People. Keep reading to find out more… The two discussed Joey‘s role in We Were the Lucky Ones, as well as her experience of losing weight and changing her hair color for the role. Patricia then spoke about oactors taking on roles in pieces based on historical events and people. “I think when your heart is in the right place, and you care about the material, and you want to honor the material, you have to open your heart in a way to this collective experience.
That is like one of the awful things of humanity, you know, that man does to men, and I think that’s why historical things I think are very intense,” she said, before asking Joey about The Act. “I know in The Act, you played Gypsy-Rose, and… now she’s out of jail.
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