Andie MacDowell could also be benefiting from some favoritism within the trade as her daughter Margaret Qualley‘s star has risen all through the years.
In a current spot on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, the veteran actress joked she was experiencing “reverse nepotism” due to Qualley.
“She’s crushing it,” MacDowell gushed. “She’s nice, so good in The Substance, and the film is improbable. And he or she takes so many possibilities, she’s a lot braver than I may have ever been. She actually carved her personal highway, I’m tremendous happy with her.”
Qualley cemented her star energy in Netflix’s Maid, a restricted sequence adaptation of Stephanie Land’s best-selling memoir of the identical identify, which garnered her second Emmy nomination after 2019’s Fosse/Verdon. That very same 12 months she was in Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and has since made a concerted effort to headline extra area of interest initiatives, like final 12 months’s queer comedy-thriller Drive-Away Dolls and Yorgos Lanthimos’ twisty Sorts of Kindness (her second collaboration with the auteur, following her flip within the Oscar-winning Poor Issues). A lot of shops and movie lovers on-line thought of Qualley’s lack of an Academy Award nod for her supporting efficiency in The Substance a snub.
“They at all times accuse the youngsters of [nepotism], however I’m now cool, as a result of I’m Margaret Qualley’s mother,” MacDowell, who co-starred together with her daughter in Maid, mentioned, “and likewise, I’m Jack Antonoff‘s mother-in-law, so it’s a double-whammy. Letters within the mailbox, like ‘I believe you’re great,’ they usually’re 13.”
Elsewhere within the interview, The Method Residence star mirrored on Groundhog Day, recalling an occasion on the set of the 1993 temporal-warping comedy during which co-star Invoice Murray randomly drove off throughout filming together with her within the automobile.
Watch the interview beneath:
