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In 'Her Smell,' Elisabeth Moss 'Turned It Up To 11,' Then Turned It Up Some More

In her new film, Moss plays a punk singer struggling with addiction. "The only mistake we could make was not going far enough," she says.
Elisabeth Moss plays Becky Something, a punk singer struggling with substance abuse, in the new film <em>Her Smell. </em>"It was the hardest dialogue I've ever had to learn," she says.

In her latest film, Elisabeth Moss felt that the only mistake she could make "was not going far enough."

Written and directed by Alex Ross Perry, Her Smell imagines the chaotic personal life of a drug addicted musician. Becky Something is the head of a fictitious all-female rock group from the '90s.

"Becky Something

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