How Eve Hewson Proved She’s Funny by Playing Irish Women

TheWrap magazine: With “Flora and Son” and “Bad Sisters,” the actress “feels seen for the first time”

Eve Hewson
Photo by Jeff Vespa for TheWrap

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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