Zoe Kazan on Fighting Donald Trump, Living With Anorexia, and Her Relationship With Paul Dano

The pun is truly unintended. “She’s very thorny,” I said to Zoe Kazan about Rose, the character she is playing in Mike Bartlett’s acclaimed play, Love, Love, Love, at New York’s Laura Pels Theatre. Bartlett’s brilliant comedy-drama follows a British family—in which Kazan plays the daughter—through 40-plus years of big and small history, and the big and small hurts that shape it, informed by the political and cultural cross-currents of intervening eras. The gloriously familiar pop music between acts will gladden any music fan’s heart, while the baby boomer generation, and the Gen-Xers they birthed, are both celebrated and mercilessly satirized. On stage, the 33-year-old Kazan—whom I met backstage on a recent weekday evening, before a performance—skillfully embodies an all-too believable stroppy, anguished tangle of teenage energy, whose selfish, lackadaisical parents cannot see the harm they are doing to her and to themselves. Rose, who we both laugh at and feel for, comes to be a moral fulcrum for the craziness she grows up around, her eventual maturity appearing careworn rather than warm. Kazan’s English accent is impressive, and she says that Bartlett helped in rehearsals by asking her to put more “embarrassment into her body when I was young—that… Read full this story

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