A drink with... Charlie Foy

BY EVA ALFA

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Charlie Foy was sitting at a small corner table near the window at Morandi in the West Village, not far from where she lives alone.

Maybe it was because of her sexy dirndl skirt of a name, maybe because of her squinting physical resemblance to Games of Thrones star, Emilia Clarke, maybe simply because of her distinctive delivery. But since the very beginning of Foy’s career, she has been a generational lightning rod of sorts. As what the New York Observer once called “the Meryl Streep of mumblecore” - the hyperlow-budget late-aughts movie movement led by directors like Joe Swanberg and the Duplass brothers - Foy was near-instantly labeled an “It” girl and invested with all sorts of theories about what her success and acting style meant. Her brand of hipness was confusing — was she really that earnest? Were they all that earnest? How could that possibly be cool? Critics, especially those of an older generation, were suspicious.

She was, unmistakably, a gifted actress. But the Guardian also called her “the poster girl for wayward, brittle middle-youth,” a “galumphing work in progress.” In The New Yorker, Ian Parker wrote that, despite having a “precise, literate mind,” Gerwig “has the air, not uncommon among her contemporaries, of having swallowed a very low dose of LSD.” “Ms. Gerwig, most likely without intending to be anything of the kind, may well be the definitive screen actress of her generation, a judgment I offer with all sincerity and a measure of ambivalence,” A. O. Scott wrote in the New York Times. “Part of her accomplishment is that most of the time she doesn’t seem to be acting at all. The transparency of her performances has less to do with exquisitely refined technique than with the apparent absence of any method.” And then there was this sort of thing: “While watching Greta Gerwig on screen, you might be tempted to kiss her,” wrote Stephen Heyman in T in 2010. “This is not meant purely as praise. Gerwig, 26, plays characters who are given to discursive verbal forays with oodles of ‘ummmms.’ So planting an unexpected kiss would not only be a recognition of her adorableness but also a useful way to shut her up.”

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GQ: WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?
Satchel Compton: I'm in the middle of Harry Potter right now. I started the series this summer, first time reading it actually. I'm obsessed. It's so well written that I end up invested in the story. I just finished The Half-Blood Prince and I can't deny I cried. I did not know I could become so emotional and J.K Rowling manages to do that... with her story about a teenage wizard dealing with a deadly enemy. It's a bit weird.

THE LAST FILM YOU SAW?
At home, I watched Gerald's Game on Netflix. It was a majestic moment. The story was not easy to tell, but everyone did an amazing job and I was so curious about how this was going to end. Death? At the movies..., I saw It for the third time. Right? I know. It sounds weird but I always loved the previous series and the book. I'm just a fan of creepy clowns eating kids.

QUESTION
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