Imogen Poots has been thinking about a Sam Shepard quote: “People here have become the people they’re pretending to be.”
Those 10 words, from a poem in his Motel Chronicles collection, are kind of about her character in Hedda, the quietly courageous Thea. But they are also kind of about everything.
After 20 years of acting in films, television and on the stage, Poots is having a clarifying moment. And Shepard’s words somehow get to the heart of it all: the disorienting paradox of attempting to work as an artist in a big industry like Hollywood and preserving your soul in the process.
