Ronan Farrow ‘Gently Nudged’ Mia Farrow to Return to Acting After ‘Periods of Time Where She’s Reluctant to Come Back to It’: ‘That’s a Gift for All of Us’
Ronan Farrow revealed at the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance that he was the one to gently nudge his mother, Mia Farrow, back into acting. Farrow spent last fall on Broadway opposite Patti LuPone in Jen Silverman’s play “The Roommate.” Prior to that, she had a supporting run on the Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix series “The Watcher.” But she’s otherwise been off screens for nearly a decade.
“I look at a career like my moms and she’s such an incredible talent,” Ronan tells Variety’s Tatiana Siegal. “I run into directors and writers in my generation who are obsessed with her body of work and want her to share that and share her talent. Understandably, she has gone through periods of time where she’s reluctant to come back to it. Lord knows she’s had go of it in this industry, highs but also the dark side of it. [Getting her to act again] did take some conversation.”
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Ronan says that after Mia’s successful Broadway run and the reviews she earned, she may have once again caught the acting bug.
“So many actors came up to me and said, ‘It’s one of the great performance,'” he adds. “I am happy to say that, while I did gently nudge her and said, ‘I’ll read the script and if it’s good then it’s worth doing,’ she is now in a place that if it’s the right thing and a rich, fulfilling part then she’ll say yes. That’s a gift for all of us.”
So what will Mia act in next? Ronan tells Variety he’d love for his mom to pop up in the next season of Hulu’s comedy series “Only Murders in the Building.”
Farrow is in Park City with Audible as the host of the upcoming “Not a Very Good Murderer.” The journalist signed a multi-project deal with the company earlier this year. The show is billed as “a wild, genre-bending investigative podcast” and is set for release on March 20.
Based on several years of reporting, “Not a Very Good Murderer” follows Farrow as he sets out to vet a political lead and instead stumbles into a series of cold cases in one of America’s wealthiest gated communities — and an “explosive relationship” with the “colorful central source who holds the key to solving them.”
Farrow’s projects for Audible join a growing slate of investigative reporting podcasts from Audible including Jon Ronson’s “The Debutante” and Leon Neyfakh and Prologue Projects’ “Think Twice: Michael Jackson” and the “Backfired” series.
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