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SXSW: Live with Chloe Sevigny
Chloe Sevigny excused herself from the Q-and-A session after the screening of her comedy “Barry Munday” on Saturday afternoon at the Paramount.
“I have stage fright,” she said, seemingly hiding on the theater’s mezzanine as a huge ovation erupted inside the auditorium while writer-director Chris D’Arienzo and co-stars Patrick Wilson and Judy Greer took the stage.
“They always tend to ask the main actors all the questions, so it’s kind of like why do it?” she added.
Sevigny has a small but assertive role as a libidinous bad-girl in “Barry Munday,” a highly entertaining offbeat comedy about a rudderless guy (Wilson, hilarious) who, in a drunken haze, gets a mousey, 30-something virgin (Greer) pregnant, upending both of their loserish lives. Festival audiences are historically a generous lot, yet “Munday” earned its laughs and applause.
“I was surprised how well this played. It’s really funny,” said Sevigny, who hadn’t even seen a clip of the movie until today. “I thought it was great. I was really amused.”
The faces of Sevigny, at the Paramount on Saturday. (Photos: Chris Garcia)
Sevigny — known for “Kids,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” “American Psycho,” “Zodiac” and HBO’s “Big Love,” for which she won a Golden Globe this year— loved D’Arienzo’s script for “Barry Munday,” finding it “charming, humorous and very tender.”
She originally went for the lead role, Ginger, played to comic perfection by Greer. “There aren’t a lot of great parts for females out there, obviously,” Sevigny said.
When Greer got the part, “I said, ‘I want to be in it even more now that Judy’s in it.’ She’s one of my favorite actresses. Since ‘Jawbreaker’ I’ve been a huge fan of hers.”
Sevigny’s character, Ginger’s salacious younger sister, secretly dances at a strip club that Wilson’s character frequents.
“That was me dancing, sadly,” Sevigny laughs. “I always promised myself I’d never play a stripper or a hooker, but I did this because it was comedic.”
She dances to Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again,” ‘80s hair-band pop that can either be loved on its own terms or in a protective Snuggie of irony.
“I love that song!” Sevigny says, and we believe her.
“Barry Munday” plays again at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday and 7:15 p.m. Thursday at the Alamo South.
Sevigny also stars in “Mr. Nice” at SXSW. It screens at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Paramount.
Sevigny will also appear on the “Mr. Nice” panel with co-star Rhys Ifans at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Studio SX at the Austin Convention Center.
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