Filipina breakout star Dolly de Leon leaves audiences cheering as an underdog turned top dog in Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness, out in theaters this week.
’s uproarious Palme d’Or–winning movie,In the film, it’s a crew of impassive and fastidious Filipino women cleaners, who are only briefly seen and scarcely heard while the outrageous wealthy characters aboard the luxury yacht hog all the attention. But a third-act twist flips all of the film’s power dynamics, and from that chaos emergesfrom May’s Cannes Film Festival that “her every line has so far prompted cheers in press and public screenings alike.
Östlund points out the “very steep curve” that Abigail had to transition from near invisibility to a central character, across only a few scenes. “It was hard to make that believable,” admitted the director of 2014’sin an interview. But de Leon succeeded—and brought to Abigail a tinge of hostility. “There’s a subtle aggression when she takes command,” Östlund notes. “She enjoys finally being like, ‘Fuck you, this is not okay.
Yet within a film that functions as a large-scale allegory, the role is a surprisingly personal one. Here, de Leon talks about her mother’s decades of working as a housekeeper in the United States, her efforts to not make Abigail “exaggeratedly Filipinized,” the of costar Charlbi Dean in August, and the humanizing and heartbreaking details she wove into her performance as a character who’s rarely truly seen.Dolly de Leon:
I was drawn to it immediately. She’s a woman who doesn't have much opportunity, but then the tables are turned. To me it was very important that a voice is lent to a character like her. The story has so many twists and turns, and I found it to be very rich, like watching three films in one.I asked Ruben how he envisioned my character, and he said it depended on the actor. So we built her based on my physical appearance and what I bring to the table.
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