The march issue of Interview Magazine features Brit Marling's interview with Malcolm Gladwell.Craig McDean/Interview Magazine
Interview Magazine has revealed its March issue featuring Brit Marling, creator, executive producer, writer and actress on Netflix’s hit show, "The OA."
The avant-garde issue features Brit’s interview with Malcolm Gladwell about her experience and process in working on "The OA" — not to mention her incredibly stunning photos by Craig McDean.
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Brit Marling is a creator, executive producer, writer and actress on "The OA."Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"Zal has an incredible imagination and a very specific point of view on the world," said Marling, referring to "The OA" collaborator Zal Batmanglij. "And he has the ability to articulate that point of view. I have been deeply enamored by that point of view since the very first days of knowing him in college, and with the sincerity in his pursuit of becoming more able to translate it."Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"Every day of writing this, every day of shooting it, we felt genuine terror," said Marling of the risks of storytelling in long form. "And I’ve started to realize that if you’re not in that space, it’s actually dangerous; that there’s something about being on the knife’s edge that keeps you hypervigilant, hyperalert."Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time," said Marling of staying in the moment. "I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro. And what I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That’s not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down.Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"For better or worse, I have pretty sophisticated armor that makes me feel like the thing I’m most interested in is trying the bold thing I believe ... that ... in and of itself is worth something, even if nobody gets it in the moment," said Marling of developing a thick skin for critique.Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"That’s, to me, the most interesting version of art, which is when it becomes a communal activity, like a tribe trying to dig up a skeleton, a group of voices trying to purify what’s coming through," said Marling of art being collaborative.Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive," said Marling on her connection to science fiction. "Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there’s mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don’t. I feel very alone when I don’t feel that."Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"It’s thrilling. I think I got very lucky to have encountered someone that made me feel that way so young" said Marling on working with Zal Batmanglij, co-creator and co-executive producer of "The OA." Craig McDean/Interview MagazineIt’s really great because when we were in the writers’ room — we worked with three very gifted playwrights — we all forgot that I was going to play the character," said Marling of acting in work she wrote. "You kind of have to, otherwise you wouldn’t put that character in so many difficult situations, you wouldn’t take so many risks. And then, on set, it was very important that the actors were in a tribe together."Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"'The OA' is our attempt at writing and making a new human language through movement, this mythology we’re inventing," said Marling. "And yet we will of course fall short. But it’s in the falling short, it’s in the failure, in that gap that the audience feels the slightest wind of the unknowable, the unsayable, which is what we all basically feel all the time: that life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp, and that that’s an extraordinary thing to sit inside."
Craig McDean/Interview Magazine"The OA" is an American mystery drama Netflix series with science fiction, supernatural and fantasy elements.Craig McDean/Interview Magazine
