FYC: Julia Garner in "The Assistant"
by Ben Miller
This year’s Best Actress race is filled with powerful women going through big things. Viola Davis and Andra Day portray groundbreaking artists dealing with systems stacked against them. Frances McDormand and Vanessa Kirby are women trying to work through immense grief. Carey Mulligan is exacting revenge for monumental wrongs.
In The Assistant, Julia Garner portrays Jane, an assistant to a Hollywood big wig. Jane is not going through something big. She is just doing her job. Something big is happening nearby, she recognizes, but she can’t do anything about it...