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I don’t have an answer, and I think that that was one of the reasons why I think playing the character and exploring the show is so interesting, because you just have to do your own assessment, and try and find pieces of these specific people and stories that, maybe do make sense, or if you were to make up a backstory about somebody and maybe why they got to this place, it’s hard, because there isn’t just an answer for that, that we’re aware of.ĭEADLINE: What struck you about Claire’s complications, and her past? But, it’s not like I could go and talk to one of these people. I definitely did research into these stories, and specifically the Mary Kay Letourneau one, and there’s a documentary that I watched that I found really fascinating. KATE MARA: Well, that’s complicated, because I really don’t have an answer.

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Mara brings a subtle sympathy to the intricacies of Claire Wilson, forcing viewers to ponder who’s guiltier: The predator or the prey? A Teacher is another notch in Mara’s belt of elevating material in a resume which includes such complicated characters as compromised journalist Zoe Barnes in Netflix’s House of Cards and Hayden McClaine in season one of American Horror Story: Murder House.Ģ023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & StreamingĭEADLINE: When it came to the psychology of high school teachers who are involved with their students, what did you learn? It’s a more-often-than not scandal that has frequented headlines since the 1990s with such teachers as Pamela Smart and the late Mary Kay Letourneau, and it’s an arresting subject to cover in the throes of #MeToo.

Mara portrays such a protagonist – or antagonist depending on how you view it, which only underscores her canniness with her craft-in FX’s Hannah Fidell limited series A Teacher, which follows the build-up and fallout of a scandalous affair between an older woman and her pupil. The “Umbrella Academy” star, 36, claims Minghella, 37, was supportive of him and the “House of Cards” alum, 40, exploring their feelings for each other and that Mara told the “Handmaid’s Tale” star at the time, “‘I never thought I could be in love with two people, and now I know I can.It takes audacity for an actress to play a high school teacher who grooms her student, but it’s someone such as Kate Mara who embraces the challenge to meticulously play such knotty femmes with no sweat results. Page and Mara became entangled when he was filming the 2014 film “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” “She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella.” “The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara,” the “Juno” star writes in “Pageboy,” per an excerpt obtained by People Friday. Where is Olivia Thirlby now? All about her life after ‘Juno’Įlliot Page claims in his upcoming memoir that he had a relationship with Kate Mara while she was dating Max Minghella.

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Elliot Page claims director stroked thigh, told him to ‘make the move’ as a teen: He ‘groomed’ meĮlliot Page declined movie role to avoid wearing feminine clothes: ‘I would want to kill myself’Įlliot Page: I had secret relationship with closeted co-star for two years

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