ANNE RICE’S MAYFAIR WITCHES Star Alexandra Daddario Covers INSTYLE’s ‘Self Love’ Issue

Posted on February 09, 2023

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 Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches star Alexandra Daddario sat down with InStyle for InStyle’s Self Love Issue to admit that she doesn’t actually have a plan for her career; discuss the evolution of her career that began at age 16, her New Orleans wedding last year, and her changing views on fashion and aging.

Daddario also gets real about her new role, dropping out of acting school, and the improvements she’s seen in Hollywood regarding gender representation and intimacy scenes, as she’s moved from the “Percy Jackson” movies, to the remakes of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Baywatch,” to her current roles.

 

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Daddario’s career path and her lack of a plan: “I’m not super-strategic,” Daddario admits. “For the majority of my twenties, no one was throwing offers at me,” she explained. “There’s stuff I’ve done that people don’t take super seriously, which is fine, but I’ve always taken my characters seriously, and so I’ve always found something in each project.”

“I take it day by day. I think it’s hard to make plans because you have to adjust them so much. I’m feeling that if you make plans, then you get laughed at by God or whomever,” she concludes. “Anything can happen.”

Her feelings on landing the lead role in the Percy Jackson movies early in her career:   “I never was like, ‘I’ve made it,’ even now I don’t feel like, this is it, I’m good for life now. I’m very, very proud of what I’ve accomplished, and I’m grateful, but it’s a ladder. You’re always sort of trying to figure it out,” she says. “When you reach a certain age, and you’re still doing it, you go, ‘Well, I’m not going back to Marymount now to get my degree and figure out what to do; this is my job.’”

Daddario and her new character Rowan in Mayfair Witches both struggle with growing up and aging: “I think a lot of us feel [like Rowan],” she says. “You have your survival mechanisms, things that you do to help yourself be happy. Sometimes you make bad choices, but you have this other part of your life figured out.” Rowan is freshly 30, which Daddario described as a pivotal and difficult time for anyone trying to link the person they’ve become as an adult with the one from their youth they don’t want to lose. “It feels epic, and it feels scary,” she explained, referring to her own experience with aging. “We get lost, and we become a mess. We have the darkest moments.”

The improvements she’s seen for women during her tenure in Hollywood: “It shouldn’t be a touchy subject, but when I started out, I wasn’t meeting with female directors. It was all men that you met with,” she recalls. “There’s been a huge shift [in Hollywood] as far as how we want to portray women, the number of women working behind the scenes, the number of leading roles for women is increasing.”

 

[Photo Credit: Emma Anderson for InStyle Magazine]

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