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Behind The Blinds (2022)

May 1, 2022
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There’s no denying that Imogen Poots is prolific. The 32-year-old actress has starred in over 40 films since her breakout role at 17. Perennially busy and cheerfully versatile, she’s gone from playing teenage survivor Tammy in 2007 post-apocalyptic horror 28 Weeks Later to a primary school teacher forced to raise a creepy child in suburban hell for 2019 sci-fi thriller Vivarium. But her latest project might just be her most mysterious yet. In Outer Range (out now on Prime) she plays Autumn, a curious backpacker who shows up on a ranch one day around the same time that a strange void appears. The western sci-fi thriller asks big questions about time, philosophy and the unknown. Mysteries unravel but some questions are left unanswered. It was this complexity that drew Poots to the role. Here, she discusses playing unpredictable female characters, being a woman in Hollywood and taking risks.

Outer Range is a twisty mysterious sci-fi western in which you play eccentric backpacker Autumn. What initially drew you to the project? How did you feel when you first read the script?

I couldn’t immediately understand it. When the script came in, we only had the synopsis and the first episode. Reading it through, it felt like a western and I’d always been really obsessed with that genre of literature and movies but had yet to get a chance to be in that world. At the beginning, it was such a huge leap of faith, but I trusted in it.

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Photoshoots > Pictorials & Portraits > 2022 J Cano
Press Library > 2022 > Interview Magazine (2022)

Imogen Poots Keeps Everyone Guessing in ‘Outer Range’

Apr 24, 2022
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The British actor plays an enigmatic interloper in this new science fiction Western on Amazon. “The trickery of it is what made it so fun,” she said. When Imogen Poots arrives in the premiere of “Outer Range,” a trippy new science fiction Western series, the first impression is of an ingénue. “A pretty blonde with long hair and big blue eyes,” Poots said in a recent video interview from Los Angeles, “and strange, sturdy teeth.” Poots, who first made a splash, at 17, in the 2007 zombie sequel “28 Weeks Later,” is uncomfortable with playing the designated girlfriend, she said. While she has taken advantage of such roles, matching the searing intensity of powerhouse actors like Michael Shannon (“Frank and Lola”) and Mark Ruffalo (“I Know This Much Is True”), she has been actively seeking more layered parts. “Outer Range,” premiering Friday on Amazon, excited her because a series offers a potentially more complex character arc than a two-hour movie. But she was determined to avoid sliding into love interest territory. [Read more]

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Photoshoots > Pictorials & Portraits > 2022 R J Caruthers

Imogen on the cover of ES Magazine

Apr 16, 2020
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Imogen Poots is tired of walking on eggshells. ‘Being English, being polite, it’s exhausting,’ she says, sipping sparkling water which, to her chagrin, has arrived with lemon wedges, not lime (although she’s too polite to complain). We’re at Soho’s Dean Street Townhouse and the 30-year-old actress, dressed in a frill-collared Isabel Marant blouse, once blonde hair newly light brown, is letting loose on the fact that women who speak up get a bad name. Qualities such as ambition are coveted, but in men, not in women.

Poots thinks that Hollywood’s sexual abuse problem — which she describes as ‘systemic’ — is inseparable from the idea of women as submissive. ‘Still I come up against it a lot, where if you come to work and you’re quite opinionated in a good way for the benefit of the project, that can often be perceived as “you have an attitude” or that you’re hostile.’ The way that female characters are imagined on the page is still ‘pretty shocking’, she says, and women have been expected not to fight this. ‘You go along with the plan,’ she says. ‘You don’t question things.’

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Photoshoots > Pictorials & Portraits > 2020 L & Nik
Magazine Scans > 2020 > APRIL 2020 – ES Magazine
Press Library > 2020 > Evening Standard

Imogen Poots on RTE Guide

Apr 16, 2020
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Michael Doherty chats with Imogen Poots about her latest film, the sci-fi thriller, Vivarium. Directed by Dubliner Lorcan Finnegan, Vivarium is a dystopian drama in which Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg play a young couple whose search for the perfect suburban home quickly turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare. With echoes of Get Out and Black Mirror, the movie received its Irish premiere at the recent Dublin International Film Festival, where we caught up with the lead actress. Best known for her starring roles in movies such as The Look of Love (2013) and Green Room (2015), and TV series such as Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010), Imogen is the daughter of Belfast TV producer, Trevor Poots.

You once remarked that you love a sense of the absurd and the uncertain in acting jobs. You certainly got your wish with Vivarium…

Imogen Poots: Oh, yes! I really, really loved it, even if I didn’t totally understand it at first. I was intrigued by it. I met up with Lorcan and he was telling me about movies that would be a good reference for this film. It was all so interesting and I couldn’t wait to get started. It’s always fun when you’re working on a project which, in one sense, is an art experiment; but we had a budget, which is cool!

 

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Photoshoots > Pictorials & Portraits > 2020 J C Cooney
Magazine Scans > 2020 > APRIL 2020 – Rte Guide
Press Library > 2020 > RTE Guide

Imogen talks anger, nudity & new play

Mar 8, 2017
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Would you ask a male actor that?” says Imogen Poots, peering at me suspiciously. I’ve just asked when she realised her looks opened up the board for her in terms of roles. I would, I say – Steve Buscemi is a great actor but he didn’t get to play that many romantic leads. “But he works with Jim Jarmusch all the time,” she responds, “and that’s what every actor wants!”

Poots may not have worked with the celebrated indie director yet but she’s certainly been busy over the past few years, since she made a splash as a teenager enjoying a one-night stand with sexagenarian Michael Douglas in Solitary Man (2009) and was the apple of daddy’s eye in the 2010 ITV remake of Bouquet of Barbed Wire. She went on to play porn baron Paul Raymond’s daughter in The Look of Love in 2013 and an endearing would-be suicide in the Nick Hornby adaptation A Long Way Down the folllowing year.

Since then, she’s mixed critically acclaimed films, such as last year’s violent thriller Green Room, with blockbusters like Need for Speed (2014), and worked with another director that every actor would kill to be cast by, Terrence Malick, on his 2015 film Knight of Cups. That was “wonderful but mad”, she says, recalling the day she thought to ask Malick where her character was from. “He said, ‘Oh well, she’s essentially like smoke; she’s from nowhere and, uh, everywhere’, and I said, ‘Right, OK, great…’.” READ MORE

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Press Library > 2017 > The Telegraph