Brit Marling Is Queen

BRIT MARLING ON UPENDING EXPECTATIONS

Also, I wonder if there are hidden clues in every movement… I don’t think they’re random.

Brit Marling reacting to Ellen talking about The OA

Brit Marling’s First Paid Acting Job Was Kissing Gillian Jacobs

Brit Marling, photographed by Sandy Kim for Wonderland, summer 2017.

“I remember sitting with Zal at Atwater Village, eating pho, and we hadn’t heard anything back yet. And I just started to cry into my pho, because I was like ‘Oh, shit. We just spent the last three years believing in this story, and if nobody wants to make it, this is the first thing we’ve written we can’t go make at Mike [Cahill]’s mom’s house for like ten dollars.’ ” {inbound 2017}

“Goldman Sachs was your near death experience.”

The OA (2016– ) created by Zal Batmanglij & Brit Marling

“I got to see another version of my life here. One in which I was given everything: fulfillment of dreams, my father who loved me. As Prairie, I had none of these things. My life was one hardship after another, and then I met you. Nina saw the whole world. But I saw underneath it. I was pressed down like coal. I suffered. That’s what an angel is. Dust pressed into a diamond by the weight of this world. You crushed me. Before I had the chance to become anything. You crushed me. But you didn’t destroy me. I died and came back to life with something you’ll never have.”

The OA: Part II (2019)  |  2x02 — 2x08