Monolith strips it back to basics – one woman alone in a house, with a microphone – but it might just be this actor’s biggest role yet.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.There are no small parts, only small actors, the great drama coach Konstantin Stanislavski famously said, giving succour to every bit player who has ever wondered when they might land a lead.– and it’s hard to imagine one bigger than Lily Sullivan’s in the inventively claustrophobicLily Sullivan stars alone in the new film Monolith.“It was a nutty, nutty experience,” says Sullivan, whose film career began at the age of 17 in P. J.
Though hard to peg – it’s not quite a thriller, it has the merest hint of sci-fi, and a good dollop of mystery – the film is all about that central performance. And with nothing more to aid her than a microphone, a variety of disembodied voices on the other end of the phone and a spectacular house in the Adelaide Hills, Sullivan absolutely nails it.“It was the challenge of a lifetime, a one-woman show,” she says, with no risk of exaggeration.
“We were shooting in the house, and my green room was the bedroom, and I was just, like, ‘what is real and what is not?’” She had just booked a role in a big production for a streamer, but who knows where that project will sit when the dust settles. But she’s sanguine about the uncertainty, which is part and parcel of the working life of most actors even in normal times.I would say the odd cigarette. But it keeps my voice husky, which is half the reason why I bookedBeing murdered by a shark. It’s a weird fear that I am also kind of fascinated by. I have this desire to swim with sharks.
“It’s so nice to take control and be on that side of the creative process, instead of jumping on so late, once everything’s developed,” she says. “It’s so nice to be at the foundation point.”It’s a move she was always destined to make, she thinks, but the strike has simply afforded her the time and space to have a crack. Eventually, she might just write roles for herself, too. “I like the idea that if your career goes one way you’re able to palate-cleanse and manoeuvre into another,” she says.
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