For her latest role, Natasha Lyonne had to change how she personally processed grief. The Golden Globe nominee recalled the questions she asked herself while playing Rachel in the upcoming Netflix drama His Three Daughters, a role created for her by writer-director Azazel Jacobs. “We found these new, untapped depths, like a reservoir,” she explained to CBS News. “For me, the question became, why?
Why am I always smoking and shutting it down and trying to self-destruct it away? What is that feeling underneath the feeling that I’m running from?
And really being allowed to sit in that grief in a way was a whole new idea.” Lyonne continued, “Grief is a crazy concept. It’s something that we don’t talk about enough. … Because it’s happening every moment.
We’re grieving what happened eight minutes ago, two minutes ago. You’re in a constant state of grief. In His Three Daughters, which premieres Sept.
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