When Eve Hewson started thinking about Flora, the young single mother she plays in John Carney’s “Flora and Son,” it didn’t take her long to come to a realization. “I thought, she’s an ostrich!” Hewson said, sitting on a couch in Los Angeles not long after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike made it safe for actors to talk about their movies again. “And then I knew how to play her.”
But what, exactly, is an ostrich, apart from an eight-foot-tall flightless bird? “An ostrich is beautiful,” she said. “They look great, they move gracefully.” She grins, just a little. “And they will f— you up.
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