Julia Fox broke big in late 2019 with the intense Uncut Gems (5 stars!). In the actor’s telling, she was writer/director Josh Safdie’s muse, and her pronunciation of the film title comes with a rather looser use of vowels and consonants (“Awncuht Jahms”).
A role in Steven Soderbergh’s enjoyable No Sudden Move followed but mainly she has become a permanent, if confusing, fixture in memes and minds.
Fox was a designer/model/dominatrix/mover/shaker before finding wider attention, and follows the classic trajectory from Manhattan scenester to celebrity, as traversed tragically by Edie Sedgwick in the 1960s, and effortlessly by Chloë Sevigny in the 90s.
Sevigny can be seen in the new series of Russian Doll (Netflix), but back before the controversial Kids, her 1992 screen debut was in Sonic Youth’s video for Sugar Kane (that rabbit-holes us to Marilyn Monroe, but stay focused).
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