‘Women Talking’ star Jessie Buckley: ‘You don’t realize how vulnerable you are when you’re filming a scene’
Jessie Buckley, born in Killarney, Ireland, trained at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, an Oscar nominee for her performance in the excellent Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed Netflix drama “The Lost Daughter,” has in a few short years gone from “Who’s she? She’s good!” to simply and reliably being among the very best screen performers working today.
She brings an air of clean, piercing curiosity and resolve to every complicated woman she takes on, and when they’re relatively simple on the page, she makes them complicated and interesting on screen. The feverish accolades for a recent West End stage revival of “Cabaret,” in which Buckley co-starred with Eddie Redmayne, asserted her theatrical chops as well as her excellent taste in collaborators.
“Women Talking” is one of those collaborative gems, screen division. Now in
