Given Qualley’s illustrious profession working with a few of up to date cinema’s biggest auteurs—Claire Denis, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Quentin Tarantino amongst them—was moving into the director’s seat a long-held ambition? “It wasn’t actually,” Qualley admits, laughing. “I imply, clearly I’ve spent plenty of time on units and I’ve had a front-row seat to among the finest administrators, however I consider myself as an actress. I simply felt like I might execute this particular video.”

Actually, for Qualley, engaged on the video mirrored among the most fun experiences of her performing profession to date—particularly, those who allowed her to showcase her talents as a dancer, and steadiness that very completely different efficiency ability set together with her love for performing. There was her breakout second because the star of Spike Jonze’s jaw-dropping perfume advert for Kenzo again in 2016, which noticed Qualley step away from a ritzy gala dinner to fling herself across the lobby of Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with livid abandon; plus, after all, her acclaimed flip as one in all her heroes, the Broadway star and Bob Fosse muse Ann Reinking, in FX’s Fosse/Verdon.

“I grew up doing competition-style dancing,” she explains. “So You Suppose You Can Dance is perhaps the simplest reference I can consider for those who don’t know that world: rhinestones and tights and eyelashes, that sort of factor, and going to those tiny little cities in North and South Carolina and staying in motels and doing these competitions on the weekends. It was my favourite factor to do however it sort of had an expiration date to it. At first, I attempted to determine whether or not I needed to be in a ballet firm or one thing, however it wasn’t fairly proper, after which I turned an actor—so to nonetheless have these alternatives to precise myself via dance is all the time actually particular for me.”