![]() You’ve always seemed like the type of person who isn’t solely focused on acting, so what is it that gets you interested in a role or a project? I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. Does that type of emotional work come easy for you, as an actor? You and Mark Webber have some intensely emotional moments in this film. ![]() She’s kind of kooky, but he let me go there. Maybe it’s not even so healthy, and I liked that about it. I was excited to really throw myself into Lydia and her daughter and have them dress alike. I’m a little bit more of a relaxed, lazy mother. I would love to play the mother of a girl, and I would love to make this character a type-A mother who puts her whole life into her little girl.” The fact that Lydia owned a daycare was very telling to me. I would rather play a character, and I think it will be great for your movie because it very subtley blurs the line without being too in your face.” And then, I said, “I don’t feel comfortable having my son in the movie, but his best friend looks a lot like me, and she’s the same age. I said, “I’m right in the middle and I think it will work. But, I convinced him that I’m not that known, in this way. If you were even slightly known in the industry and your work was known, Mark wanted you to play yourself because he was portraying his struggle in this business. But, in his synopsis and outline, it was a character named Lydia and I think he was planning on casting a complete unknown, so that there was no baggage with her. At first, I think Mark wanted me to play myself and use my son, who was 7, at the time. How much of this character did you know about beforehand? Did you have discussions ahead of time about who she would be? Check out what she had to say after the jump. She also talked about her role on the new ABC drama series Mistresses, premiering on May 27 th, what she enjoys about working on television, her short film for Jaguar with Damian Lewis ( Homeland), and her upcoming feature film The Jesuit, with Tim Roth. When the mother of his two-year-old son Isaac (played by Webber’s real-life son) suddenly passes away, the struggling actor is forced to face his inability to grow up and begins to realize that he can no longer remain in denial about the real-life consequences that his choices have.ĭuring this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, actress Shannyn Sossamon – who plays Lydia, a young single mother that Mark finds himself drawn to – talked about why she wanted to get involved with this unique project, how exciting it is to work without a set script and be able to improvise the dialogue, how they determined just what kind of character Lydia would be, how being a mother herself made her really comfortable about working with the young children in the film, and how inspiring Mark Webber was to work with. Set in Los Angeles, The End of Love is an intimate, honest and raw portrait of a young father (played by writer/director Mark Webber) in transition between the life he’s been working for and the one that’s already waiting for him.
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