Morfydd Clarks breakout moment was supposed to come last year.
Shes been too busy shootingThe Lord of the Ringsto worry about it.
Saint Maudis now in theaters and begins streaming on Epix on February 12.
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These days, the Welsh actress Morfydd Clark frequently wakes up disoriented, wondering how she got here.
Not far from the set are mammoth green mountains, a 500-foot waterfall, and a bubbling mud pool.
As we speak, I am confronted by six eyes and ten brows.
She begins with an apology for her technological struggles and for being late.
(I was just lying in bed anxiety-ing about it!)
(Its finally in theaters now, to be followed by a mid-February streaming release.)
The production house has been a launchpad for such actresses asAnya Taylor-Joy,Saoirse Ronan, and Florence Pugh.
The idea of scores of interviews and glad-handing in Los Angeles felt destabilizing.
Over the past few years, the 30-year-old has steadily accumulated capital in the industry.
Critics have lauded Clarks performance as nerve-shredding and mesmeric.
Glass first noticed Clark in 2016s Jane Austen adaptationLove & Friendship.
She was inspired by the ways those films deal with terror.
When the fear is so real you could easily be dominated by it, Clark explains.
Shes able to get moments in the silence with her reactions.
Its a gift that she has.
Clark has ADHD, and the stage was the first place it didnt feel like a burden.
You are often having to pretend to be someone else, she says.
Lots of the characters Ive ended up playing have kind of put on a face of respectability.
As she has gained the respect of her peers, that feeling of inevitable failure has stuck.
ADHD feeds into impostor syndrome because youre always fluking doing well and then crashing and burning, Clark says.
Theres always a feeling that youre tricking everyone like you occasionally tricked your teachers.
In her mid-20s, she was certain that, after a big break, things would feel different.
She knows better now.
But also you remain the same anxious person.
She speaks haltingly of all thingsLord of the Rings,afraid to let slip any unauthorized news.
At times, shes in a state of the sublime until she remembers shes 11,000 miles from home.
In September, Clark attended aSaint Maudpremiere at Aucklands Hollywood Avondale.
And I think thats kind of perfect.
