Moss says she wasn’t “cool enough to be” in Jolie’s “camp.”
Before she was an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning leading star, Elisabeth Moss was developing her acting skills in smaller roles. In 1999, she co-starred with Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder in the Oscar-winning film Girl interrupted. Now Moss, 41, is opening up about what it was like working on the acclaimed film saying it was a bit “intimidating”.
“There were two types of camps. There was Winona Ryder camp and there was Angelina Jolie camp,” Moss told Kelly Rip on the show’s latest episode. Let’s talk off camera podcast. Moss explained that the “camps” in question were “off-camera but based on what was filmed,” and that she “was in the Winona Ryder camp and the Angelina Jolie camp was really cool.” She added: “They were really cool girls.”
When asked if she “secretly wanted to be in” Jolie’s camp, Moss said she really didn’t because she “was so intimidated by” the group. Ripa asked, “Did you say to him, ‘Why didn’t you let me into your camp?’ » Moss replied: “No, I never talked about it. I never brought it up and I’m sure she would have no idea what I was talking about anyway. But I definitely wasn’t cool enough to be in his camp.”
Girl interrupted follows the lives of a group of troubled women held at Claymoore, a local psychiatric hospital, in the late 1960s. Moss plays Polly “Torch” Clark, a teenage burn victim who suffers from schizophrenia and is both “very childish and easily upset.”
At one point, Georgina (Clea DuVall) – who is a pathological liar – tells Susanna (Ryder) that “Polly was admitted to Claymoore after her parents told her she would have to give up her puppy because of her allergies , and in response, she poured gasoline on the affected area and set it on fire, leaving her face horribly scarred. » Later in the film, it is revealed in Polly’s file that she was actually the victim of a fire in her house.
Reflecting on the film, Moss told Ripa, “I’ve spoken to Angelina since and she’s lovely, but at the time it was incredibly intimidating.”
