SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN Star Camila Morrone Is PORTER’s Latest Cover Star!

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Camila Morrone is PORTER’s latest cover star. The 28-year-old American-Argentine actor and model is best known for her breakout role as Camila Dunne in the mini-series DAISY JONES & THE SIX. She is currently starring alongside Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman in the second season of Amazon Prime Video’s THE NIGHT MANAGER, and opposite Adam DiMarco in the newly released Netflix series SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

After recently wrapping filming for the period drama THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, the actor talks to PORTER about her younger self, showing up, her recent work and navigating her private life in the public eye.

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Camila Morrone on preparing for her role in Netflix’s Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen: “Horror is a genre that really terrified me, because you have to be a very good actor to be believable in these far-away scenarios. You don’t have an analogy [to draw on] in your life. Everyone can relate to being in love, but I’ve never had a generational curse planted on me, thank God.”

On the earlier version of herself: “I overthought everything. There’s this massive fear that lives around going after something you really want – because, what if it doesn’t come true?

 How devastating will that be? I just had to rip off the Band-Aid and start going on auditions. Acting couldn’t be this thing I just ruminated on all day in my apartment and envisioned and hoped and dreamt for. I had to go to classes. I had to show up.”

On her work ethic: “I prepare obsessively. Script analysis, homework, studying – like I’m still in school. I’ve never taken any role for granted. Being cast in a project is a privilege.”

On accepting different roles: “When I get a job opportunity, I think, ‘Is this easy for me? Could I do this with my eyes closed? If it is, then it’s not the right job. Unless I’m feeling like I’m growing, I’m stagnant, and I don’t want that.”

On playing Countess Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence: “Olenska is so cool because she’s a true anarchist. She’s this very innovative, modern, artistic, bohemian, free woman, who just happens to live in a city at a time where that’s not allowed. She’s always questioning things – why women should be forced into marriage, why they shouldn’t be allowed to work. She provokes thought and conversation. She’s a breath of fresh air in a world that is so stuffy.”

On what playing Countess Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence taught her: “To question everything. Tradition, conformity, what’s expected of us. I’m inherently a feminist. I question things – like this idea that there’s a time clock on women, that you have to make it or you’ll lose it all. We’ve been trained to fear getting older, especially in Hollywood. But I look around and the possibilities are just expanding. I love that the norm now can be first-time moms in their forties. I’m all about breaking up with what we think we know. And being pro-women at all costs – it really is that simple.”

On how she navigated having her private life in the public eye: “I always went back to the work. The noise always dies down. It doesn’t always feel like that when you’re in the thick of it, but this too shall pass. I just want to make really good work, grow professionally and personally. The opportunity I have right now is very fragile and never guaranteed.”

On her fashion philosophy: “After spending hours getting dressed in corsets and petticoats for The Age of Innocence, I like my real life to be really easy. I’m trying to simplify everything in my life; that includes fashion. Everything else is chaotic enough.”

On what she sees for her future: “Martha Stewart – minus the ability to cook.”

[Photo Credit: Sam Hellman for Porter Magazine]

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