Another trope the duo were eager to dispel is the fraught relationship often portrayed between mothers and daughters.
“I worry about when we see so many teenage daughters having a really difficult relationship with their mothers in lots of stories,” Angourie said. “I worry that it becomes this sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Angourie, whose film credits include Marvel’s Spider-Man movies, Mean Girls and Ladies in Black, said the notion of Hollywood actors as vain and arrogant is not entirely fair, either.
Kate Winslet, her co-star in the television show Mare of Easttown, is “amazing”. So, too, is Ryan Gosling, who she performed with in action-comedy film The Nice Guys.
Angourie’s acting won plaudits before she was a teenager, yet mother Kate was initially very wary of letting her daughter perform.
“I was quite against it because of my own experience, which hadn’t been great,” she said. “But Angourie loved it. And she had some really wonderful experiences very early on.”
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Angourie grew up around storytelling; as a young child she recalled her mother speaking the dialogue of characters she was writing for the stage.
“I think I liked telling stories. I liked acting, I loved dancing and singing,” she said. “We would put on shows and I would drag my sister into doing a dance show.”
Besides writing and acting, Angourie also has a podcast about reading, The Community Library, that she began after graduating from high school in Melbourne.
“I love it because I get to connect with other readers and I guess there’s something really sort of fulfilling about doing something all by yourself and just for fun and not to make money from it,” she said.
She said the rise of social media communities focused on books – BookTok and bookstagram – showed literature remains integral to popular culture.
“I don’t think reading is dying,” she said. “I have a lot of positivity about people continuing to read.”
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