Andrea Riseborough never wants to make another blockbuster following “bad experiences” filming Tom Cruise movie Oblivion.

In a new interview, The Battle of the Sexes star has described how she felt isolated on the set of the 2013 film and worried about her body, as there was a constant debate over whether she was the right shape for her role as a communications officer and romantic partner of Tom’s hero.

“Oblivion was a bad experience for me,” she told British newspaper The Times. “It was hard because it was quite an isolated experience. There were only two ladies on set and a small female presence on the crew.

“There was quite a lot of talk about whether my body was the right size or not – too big or too small, not muscly or long enough. I can almost laugh at things like that now but at the time it was very lonely.”

Andrea, 36, added that the experience taught her how to “take care” of herself on set and talk to people about her problems – but she had another rough experience on a different movie when the script was changed without her approval to diminish her character’s role.

Her negative feelings about the two films have left the actress, who now produces female-led movies through her Mother Sucker production firm, vowing never to sign up to star in a blockbuster again. “I think that (making another big-budget studio movie) would kill me,” she insisted. “I am up for really anything in the fight for the ovary but I do think it would f**king kill me. I don’t know if I could deal with the misogyny.”

Tom didn't get her to convert to Scientology?

Who? Honey... that dopey hipster hat... the platinum hair... the red lipstick... the bangs. All of it? Really?

Her production company is really called Mother Sucker?

I wonder what the "different movie" was where she had the other bad experience. BIRDMAN perhaps? She's barely in it.

She was the only thing about Madonna's W./E. that was worthwhile.

You know what? I forgot to mention it here in the TV recommendations thread. Fucking watch National Treasure with Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, and Andrea Riseborough. It's a series, on Hulu I think. Five or so episodes. Imagine how great Coltrane and Walters are. Riseborough gave one of the greatest performances I've ever seen.

I've seen her in a couple things, including that IRA thriller with Clive Owen (Shadow Dancer?) and she's terrific. But in the OP pic she's scarily thin.

[quote]Andrea Riseborough never wants to make another blockbuster

Translates into "Nobody is ever going to hire me again to make another blockbuster"

She seems like she would be a real pain in the ass to work with.

I like her in the films I've seen her in. she was in that tom ford movie with jake gyllenall and arron johnston. I thought she would have been better than amy adams in the lead role. I wanted risenbourgh to have a career like ruth wilson.

She was great in Bloodline.

She was absolutely fantastic in The Pride. Incredible performance.

I think this quote from the story OP linked to is worth posting:

[quote]“When I first met M (Madonna) I was in awe of just how ‘woman’ she is,” Andrea explained. “So powerful. And that gave me a lot of confidence in myself. She was a really good example for me of someone who just owned being a woman on a really basic level that I couldn’t do for a long time.”

Well, I still like her, despite that.

She was fucking atrocious in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. I think she was stoned the entire time.

"Who? Honey... that dopey hipster hat... the platinum hair... the red lipstick... the bangs. All of it? Really?"

Wise up Miss Crawford, you're dead already.

She blew me away in "Black Mirror" last year.

She was impressive in [italic]the Devil's Mistress[/italic]. And it covers a period of English history Americans don't study in detail: the Commonwealth. We just learn that Charles I was executed, Cromwell took over for a while, then there was the Restoration with Charles II. This 2-part movie starts with Riseborough's character and her husband being part of the court of Charles I, then being part of the political factions at play.

She was fantastic in [italic]Satan's Concubine[/italic]. The scene where she destroys the Hourglass of Souls and beheads the Dark One to become the new ruler of hell still gives me chills!

she's such a great actor she was amazing in Black Mirror episode

Andrea Riseborough's scouse accent in Black Mirror was great.

she delivered two perfect, very different Irish accents in Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go and James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer. There are, perhaps, few accents harder to perfect than Northern Irish. (Consider Mickey Rourke being terrible in A Prayer for the Dying and Billie Piper being erratic in Penny Dreadful.) In Shadow Dancer, Andrea manages the eccentric swerves without — unlike so many — overdoing the “how now brown cow” sounds. Quite uncanny.

She had a small part in Never Let Me Go (great movie) as well. Very talented actress.

Look at her in OPs pic...

"Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"

she had a supporting role in Sally Hawkins film Made in Dagenham and she was great in that film too

I couldn’t believe I liked Mandy a Nick Cage movie she was in. It was very much like Death Wish and she played the Hope Lange part.

Doesn’t “blockbuster” mean successful?

I loved directing Ahhn-drea in the film that I directed. I also wrote the songs for the film that I directed. I am a director.

Love her Love her Love her.

Gotta be one of the best actresses working today.

Devil's Mistress is a must see.

Her take on Margaret Thatcher is a screech.

She doesn't need to waste her time and immense talent on crap characters like in Oblivion

I agree, she is one of the best actresses around. I'm going to rewatch her Black Mirror episode and catch up on her other performances. Could she have topped her performance in National Treasure, though?

She's one of those talented British actresses who never seems to catch on fire, despite doing consistently excellent work. Another one is Anne Marie Duff. Both of them should have careers comparable to Emily Blunt or Claire Foy, but they just don't.

Just because they don’t have have careers in USA doesn’t mean they don’t have good careers This statement has been repeated many times at DL.

Was she on the Black Mirror episode that she played a woman who killed many nice people including a baby but not a dog that proved her guilt ?

[quote] Devil's Mistress is a must see.

It's actually The Devil's Whore

Is The Devil’s Whore streaming somewhere?

Yeah, you keep telling yourself that, R7. Couldn’t be misogyny or anything.

Think it was released in N. America as The Devil's Mistress, R32. Curious beast but interesting and Andrea Riseborough does very well in the lead role. Maxine Peake, John Simms, Michael Fassbender and Dominic West. (And Peter Capaldi as Charles I.)

Amazon Prime has the Devil's Mistress, r34.

It was released in Spain as the Devil's Whore and this is the youtube link for it. You don't have to watch with the spanish subtitles.

SEXBY!!!!! John Simm is awesome as Sexby and Tom Goodman-Hill plays his own ancestor.

She is so good. I have actually not yet seen her give a bad performance, even if her projects are often a bit B-list (not just in terms of being low profile but also the quality). Reminds me of Samantha Morton, who was also the best British actress of her generation despite not getting the same offers as the more conventional likes of Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, etc.

Wasn't this poor Riseborough thing involved in a Madonna movie? For that alone she deserves an award!

r6 considers herself "curvy" at 325lbs.

Has any woman ever had a good experience when it comes to anything involving Tom Cruise?

[quote] "...political factions at play."

R16, only children or cute little animals are "at play." Political factions may be said to be AT WORK or IN PLAY, but not "at play" (nor "in work," for that matter).

[quote] "Andrea Riseborough never wants to make another blockbuster. Translates into 'Nobody is ever going to hire me again to make another blockbuster.' She seems like she would be a real pain in the ass to work with. —Anonymous"

Says R7, taking a break from incinerating ants with a magnifying glass and running after and stabbing neighbor children with her hatpin.

R31, yes, that was it.

Andrea Riseborough's US counterpart in terms of "where the fuck is her leading role" is Robin Weigert.

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