Interview: Louisa Krause (Martha Marcy May Marlene)

[Editor’s note: This interview was orginally published during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.]

Louisa Krause plays a key supporting role in Sean Durkin’s directorial debut Martha Marcy May Marlene. MMMM happens to be blessed with an uncharacteristically star packed cast for an indie of this size, so Krause and Julia Garner (see my other interview here) are not the ones most would think to write up for this film that received major post-festival buzz. Krause has already made her mark in Sundance past for her leading lady perf in Toe to Toe and being part of the Sundance family meant working in the labs with Myna Joseph on My Favorite Nightmare which then in turn led to an early read of MMMM.

Krause somehow combines middle-American blonde hair, blue eyes girl-next-door with a partly Asian background, giving her eyes you can’t, um, take your eyes off of. Thankfully she’s been keeping it real on the indie track. Krause’s next two roles come in much anticipated films, Jason Reitman’s Young Adult and Liza Johnson’s Return. No doubt she was taking some notes working with Charlize Theron and Michael Shannon, and it doesn’t hurt to be reading Diablo Cody dialogue.