“She’s almost like the clown who runs away with the circus. “She’s a woman who hasn’t found where she fits in and overcompensates for not being taken seriously,” the actress says. “It was so hot up there, and she’s wearing these giant wigs…” Webber explains.Įventually, an onstage epiphany sees Red shed the bells and whistles to lay the real Raylene bare, literally, with Boylan’s enchanting and anarchic delivery ensuring the hot mess of a character is always utterly charming.
The first week I couldn’t really eat and had a headache,” she says of filming in northern New South Wales, Australia. “Yeah, holding up in the corsets and the hair. “I had to get ‘Dolly-fit’,” jokes Boylan. Throughout the film, set to a catchy soundtrack of Parton’s greatest hits, we see the evolution of Red as she loses herself behind a façade of blonde wigs, elaborate costumes and the social acceptance found in a giddy sub-culture of tribute acts (featuring an unrecognisable Byrne as a bitter Elvis Presley and her husband Bobby Cannavale as a former Neil Diamond impersonator). In some ways is one of the more grounded people in the story, while also being completely disconnected. “He’s got that Southern gentleman quality about him, which I really wanted to have and thought was funny. “He’s got such gravitas,” Webber says of Rogers, another country music icon and frequent collaborator of Parton’s. The film, which premiered at SXSW Film Festival on March 13 to critical acclaim, follows Red’s journey from office clown to in-demand tribute performer, ultimately pairing with (and falling for) Kenny Rogers impersonator Mark (Webber). Read Popcorn Podcast’s interview with Still Working 9 to 5 director Camille Hardmanĭaniel Webber ( Escape From Pretoria), Boylan’s Seriously Red co-star, adds: “From the outside in, it’s so rare to see a group of women in every position the directing, writing, starring, producing… I’ve never experienced that.
We want to tell stories, and good stories, stories that we’re not necessarily seeing that hit home for us. We’ve all got different strengths, but we all have a similar vision. So what’s it like working on a project you’re passionate about with your mates? “Unreal!” Boylan says. All five women collaborated in some capacity on Seriously Red, the company’s first major release and Otto’s directorial narrative feature debut. It’s that inspirational ‘create your own opportunities’ cup of ambition that’s also at the heart of Boylan’s recently launched production company, The Dollhouse Pictures, co-founded with friends, directors Gracie Otto ( Under The Volcano) and Shannon Murphy ( Babyteeth), actress Rose Byrne ( Irresistible, Bridesmaids) and producer Jessica Carrera ( The Last Impresario). So that was the first quote I held onto and went, ‘OK, I’ve got a dream, I guess I’ll do what Dolly tells me to do and put some wings on that thing!’” “I was an actress wanting to get more jobs, or not getting them or getting close, and I didn’t want to sit by the phone waiting for a job to come, or not ever come, to me. The Australian actress also has a starring role as Raylene ‘Red’ Delaney, a raucous sometimes clumsy redhead who impulsively trades in her nine-to-five real estate job to become a jet-setting Dolly Parton impersonator. “If you’ve got big dreams, you’ve got to put feet and wings on them – that was one of the first Dolly Parton quotes that really started me off on this journey,” Krew Boylan tells Popcorn Podcast of writing her irreverent musical comedy Seriously Red.
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