She knew what was coming, but still hoped it never would.
Memphis Eve Sunny Day Iris Hewson likes to say shes the daughter of hippies.
It explains the name, she smiles.
Hewson and Joseph Gordan-Levitt.Apple TV+
If music was the obvious vocation, drama was the hobby… until it wasnt.
She spent two weeks in North Carolina shooting the movie, and something just clicked.
I fell instantly in love with acting, she says.
I knew I wanted to study acting, to go to college for it.
They were like, Good luck, basically.
I thought, If I fuck this up, Im screwed.
Im never going to be able to move to New York and go to college.
I swallowed my nerves, rushed the audition, and went home and puked all night long.
The nerves came flooding back.
I kind of learned that Im good under pressure; the anxiety comes after the fact.
He gave her the part the next day.
I said to myself, You know what?
Ill figure out how to sing.
For two months she worked to get in shape, and it built her confidence.
But it was funny, John and I didnt even really talk about the part for that whole time.
Finally, it was like, Shall we rehearse?
And we decided, Nah, lets have a few dinners and then start shooting.
Momentum, then, became her guiding light.
During the shoot, it was five weeks ofkeeping going.
Dont think about what you did today, think about what youre doing tomorrow.
Get it done, dont second-guess yourself.
And then after, Im like, Oh my god, what did I do?
Whats going to happen?
He describes his movies as rickety, like a stool with only three legs.
Full of character and lovable, but far from perfect.
Flora and Sondefinitely feels imperfect, and I love that about it, Hewson says.
It feels scrappy, like its an emotional outburst.
It feels like the story has come out of him involuntarily.
So, Flora doesnt need to be a perfect singer.
So, its wildand important for me, actuallythat this happened to me, and that I overcame it.
One friend sent me a video of her and her husband dancing to High Life and Dublin 07.
It has been so much fun.
Hes quite childlike as a director, she says.
If he gets an idea, its like, Ooh, lets try this.
He creates an atmosphere where everyones having fun, and everyones involved.
The whole thing is so playful.
Ill never forget the day we all got together to write that song, she says.
It was also the first day shed met Gordon-Levitt.
It was like we all got together, and magic happened.
We all met in the middle.
It comes from Carneys openness to collaborate, she insists.
You get the best ideas out of everybody.
His approach creates the space for that to happen.
Theres strings and an orchestra, and it just goes off into this beautiful middle eight, Hewson notes.
The plan is to shoot a little music video and put it out as a single release.
Itll make you cry, she says.
We actually feel like sisters.
The bond is so deep when we work together, and you dont realize how much you miss that.
One of her castmates, Sharon Horgan, also co-wrote and developed the show.
Working with her, and with director Dearbhla Walsh, has inspired Hewsons own ambitions behind the camera.
Yeah, not until last year, thats true, she laughs.
Hewson has no grand ambitions to forge a second career in music.
But under the right circumstances Id do it again.
I just dont know if I could write an album or become a pop star.
Yeah, she laughs, But thats just what its like in my house.
Have you written an album?
Is it number one in the charts?
Then get out of here!
