Chloë Sevigny Career Retrospective | SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations

Chloë shares stories from her performances in Kids, Last Days of Disco, Boys Don't Cry, If These Walls Could Talk, Big Love, Bloodline, Russian Doll, and We Are Who We Are, as well as the role she turned down in Legally Blonde, in this interview about her acting career. In the Q&A she also shares advice for emerging actors and discusses non traditional artists in this career spanning interview moderated by Stacey Wilson Hunt. This interview is part of the SAG-AFTRA Conversations series, an essential resource for actors, filmmakers and students of discussions with performers, exploring the process and profession of acting.

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0:00 - Intro
2:35 - Upbringing
8:10 - Kids (1995)
12:18 - Roles after Kids (1995)
14:12 - Last Days of Disco (1998) and Whit Stillman
19:05 - Boy Don’t Cry (1999) and Kimberly Peirce
26:27 - If These Walls Could Talk 2
29:25 - Turning Down Legally Blonde
30:40 - Non-Traditional Art and Artists
34:21 - Big Love
38:10 - Bloodline (2015)
42:08 - We Are Who We Are (2020)
46:22 - Russian Doll Season 2
48:40 - The Girl From Plainville (2022)
52:39 - Future Projects
54:59 - Final Advice