Parker Posey is opening up in regards to the challenges she confronted when making the soar from indie movies to studio films earlier in her profession.
The White Lotus star made a latest look on the Smartless podcast, hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, the place she was requested for her response to being labeled the “indie queen” within the ’90s, due to her iconic roles in Celebration Woman, Flirt, Dazed and Confused and The Daytrippers. Nevertheless, Posey admitted that it truly hindered her from getting roles in main studio tasks.
“I felt like I used to be known as a reputation, in a means,” she defined. “My path was extra like, ‘Oh, [The Daytrippers director] Greg Mottola did a studying of his film that he was making an attempt to get financed,’ after which I launched him to Liev Schreiber who was in Celebration Woman, after which we do The Daytrippers a 12 months later. It was such a group again then. I felt like proper once I received uncovered, and the entire indie motion received uncovered, it additionally received co-opted by the studio system, after which it grew to become this different factor. Unexpectedly, I wasn’t viable to get a film financed, and it was such a head journey as a result of I must audition for Hollywood films once I’d carried the lead in unbiased films that have been shot in 23 days.”
Wanting again, Posey believes she was “gaslit” into pondering she wasn’t on the identical taking part in discipline as different notable Hollywood names. Posey has previously spoken about dropping out on large roles to Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock, equivalent to 1994’s Pace, which in the end noticed Bullock land the function of Annie, as a result of she was “too indie.”
“[I would say], ‘I can promise I can memorize these traces within the script, and we’ll have a blast, belief me!’” She added. “So I had, like, a very good 20 years of that after, after which working with nice auteurs and doing these [films], not getting paid lots, however having the ability to work and fulfill my creativity.”
Earlier this 12 months, Posey reentered the zeitgeist due to her standout function as Victoria Ratliff in Mike White’s The White Lotus. Whereas lately receiving the Legend Tribute on the 2025 Gotham TV Awards, she praised the present creator, saying, “Thanks, Mike White, for scripting this character for me, for believing in a middle-aged girl and believing in a legend.”