Me: Recently you’ve chosen to take on different roles than you have in the past, how does the Miseducation of Cameron Post reflect that decision?

Chloë: Well, the Miseducation of Cameron Post was the first movie that I chose to do off the back of a year and a half break in my career. This movie, for a multitude of reasons, it reconnected me with my new iteration and this new chapter in my career, which is to be able to partner in my art with my activism. To have this be a movie that is not just entertaining and funny and exciting and thought provoking, it’s also socially conscious and socially aware and it’s socially progressive, especially in this political climate. If you’re not taking that on as a piece of who you are- and I think a lot of people in our generation are doing that now, you know we’re not really able to do anything without being some sort of socially impactful. It was a wonderful opportunity and to go from this movie to Suspiria and to show that versatility, but both being incredibly progressive movies, it’s fun. It’s a fun thing to play with.

Me: Also, without being too intrusive, I know that you’ve recently opened up about your mental health in this industry. How does that effect the work that you do or how you approach it?

Chloë: I mean I think it’s always a conversation, I think there always needs to be an open dialogue with yourself first and foremost. I found it incredibly important as a young person to start that open dialogue with myself at an early age. I’ve used my work and my acting as a form of therapy, as a catharsis for walking through really dark moments. I think it’s really important not to silence yourself, silence your own voice in your head. It’s a really beautiful, big conversation that I feel like a lot of people try and disconnect from that, but it’s something you should not.

Me: How have your roles in Cameron Post, in Suspiria, challenge the skills that you’ve already developed?

Chloë: Well I think, you know, it’s really interesting to play Cameron because in a lot of ways she’s a very passive character. She kind of sits back and a lot of the characters I’ve played in the past have been very outspoken and forward thinking and kind of the progressive character in the story, and to have the character that is the lead of the movie but the most silent in the movie, most of it I had to play in subtext. That was a beautiful challenge and it was a really wonderful thing to just sit in moments and sit in experiences and have everyone saying things to me and around me and just have to process through that. And that was, in a lot of ways, a real learning for me and a nice thing. In Suspiria I had to speak in German, so learning German for that I would definitely say was not the easiest think I’ve had to do.

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