![]() ![]() Garner said, “It’s kind of weird because, on the one hand, she carries around that fake pink leather handbag because she wants nice things, but at the same time, sometimes she dresses like a boy. “For a stripper job, you probably should’ve come dressed a little more provocative,” he lectures. Bobby Dean calls her out on her odd wardrobe choice: battered jeans and a sleeveless Tupac t-shirt, which is what she was wearing at her earlier job as a dishwasher. Read More: ‘Atlanta’: Donald Glover Says Season 3 Will Be Like Kanye’s ‘Graduation’Īnd yet, Ruth doesn’t exactly dress the part for a woman who wants to get a job that’s all about exposed flesh. “It hurts, yeah, because no girl wants to be told that they’re ugly,” said Garner. You know that, right?” she’s quiet, but can’t shake off the insult easily. When Bobby Dean tells her, “Well, you know you’re not a fucking beauty. Ruth is a young woman of contradictions, and that scene also reveals her ambivalence when it comes to her vanity. You really see her, who she is in that scene.” “When she turns around, she has a completely different face, and then she turns back she turns it back on. “She’s doing something to get her way, whatever she’s going to do to manipulate Bobby Dean,” said Langhorne. It’s not am extreme, Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation, but she allows herself that brief respite of dropping the facade before putting it back on when she faces him again. Julia Garner, “Ozark” Jackson Davis/NetflixĮvery time she turns away from him, however, Ruth’s face shifts just enough - her eyes and jaw tense up - to reveal her true feelings of annoyance and resentment. Nevertheless, she doesn’t blink an eye when Bobby Dean leers at her body and mansplains stripping. Furthermore, she’s not the kind of woman who puts up with sexist crap in her everyday life - not from her all-male family members nor from Marty, either. The audience knows Ruth’s meekness is suspicious since earlier in the episode, she’d been hired by her real boss Marty to rob Bobby Dean’s safe. “It’s my favorite Ruth scene, character-wise, because she always has a mask on and then the mask comes off.” “There are two scenes in Season 1 that really describe Ruth so well, and that’s one of them,” Garner told IndieWire. ![]() She’d rather be anywhere but in the office of owner Bobby Dean (Adam Boyer), but fortunately, he can’t tell that from the docile expression on her face. In the fourth episode of the series, Ruth has a far less pleasant audition when she tries out to be a dancer at the Lickety Splitz strip club. ![]() We’re smart enough to start feeding that as much as we can.” Julia was so much better than what we could’ve imagined that really grew. He said, “As soon as Julia started, we were like, ‘Oh, this is going to be a much bigger character than was even in the bible.’”Įxecutive producer Chris Mundy added, “In the writers’ room, Ruth was our favorite character - just the idea of this sort of feral 19-year-old girl in the world of men that still dominates it. Once Garner opened her mouth, Bateman - who executive produces, directs, and stars in “Ozark” - knew Ruth was destined to be a breakout character. You kind of get a sense of the character. “I wanted to sound authentic, so a month before doing ‘Ozark,’ I would only speak in the accent,” she said. Everyone’s doing a regular accent.’ I guess it ended up working.”Ģ023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction SpecialĪt an Emmys For Your Consideration screening and panel on Saturday, Garner revealed that once she landed the part, she made sure that sounding like Ruth would become effortless. I was like, ‘I’m not going to get the job. “And I’m like, ‘Oh my god, no one’s having an accent.’ I couldn’t do the lines without the accent because I was so used to doing the accent already. And I remember there were other people with no accent,” Garner said in an interview with IndieWire. “When you go to a New York casting office, a lot of them are really tiny, so you can hear the other people that are reading their lines. Once she arrived for the audition, however, she had second thoughts. She had just used a Missouri accent for her role in the film “Tomato Red” and decided to dust it off to read for the Netflix crime drama. When Julia Garner went out for the “Ozark” role of 19-year-old Ruth Langmore - a no-nonsense local girl who gets mixed up with newcomer and money launderer Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) - the actress had a secret weapon at the ready. ![]()
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