Meet Alexis Floyd, Who Plays the Scene-Stealing Neff in Inventing Anna
glamour.comBy In Inventing Anna, aspiring filmmaker/New York City hotel concierge Neff Davis controls access to the hottest restaurants, clubs, and event spaces for a few hundred hotel guests at any given time.
But it's who has control over Neff every time she slides a $100 bill across her desk. Money talks in this profession, but so does power and exclusivity.
In Neff's eyes, Anna has all that and more.It's a fascinating cat-and-mouse game that, along with obsessive journalist Vivian Kent, is the through-line of each episode.
Just when they think they're out, Anna pulls them right back in. , who plays Neff, was just as fascinated by the power dynamic when she booked the role over two-and-a-half years ago. “[The real-life] Anna has sort of felt almost mythical to me, like she has supernatural powers that would give me the shivers a bit," the Cleveland native tells me from her apartment in New York City. "But I think—and this is telling of Julia’s performance of her—there was a real love and relationship between Neff and Anna, even if it didn't penetrate to the point where Anna fully exposed all of the details of her identity with her.”Julia Garner and Alexis Floyd are seen filming a scene for Inventing Anna in the Upper East Side on November 02, 2020 in New York City.While Inventing Anna goes on a quest to discover just who the real Anna Delvey is, perhaps just as interesting are the actors who have entered the universe.
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