Video Interview: Zoe Kazan (Meek’s Cutoff)

Zoe Kazan is a unique talent. She’s somehow managed to work quite constantly over the past few years without needing anything close to a typecast. Normally, actors establish themselves as doing one thing well and getting hired repeatedly for it. Not Kazan though. She played the nice, safe, but not too adventurous or glamorous love interest in Me and Orson Welles and then a blonde bombshell who opens Jason Schwartzman to exciting new worlds of sexuality in Bored to Death and was selected for Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, based on  perhaps “look” and her performance in The Exploding Girl.

Here she plays alongside her real life boyfriend Paul Dano as her half of a young privileged couple who previously led a sheltered life, until their foray on the Oregon trail. This period piece feminist western is another feather in the cap of Kazan’s early career. Soon look for her screenwriting debut for Dano starrer in the works He Loves Me. In the interview we discuss her growing up in a household of writers before becoming an actor, and what direction her future is heading nd to top it all off, we also discuss our traditional Jewish allergies. Oscilloscope Laboratores releases the Venice preemed Meek’s Cutoff is in New York tomorrow.