He was like, ‘OK, this is where you live. To confirm the use of that particular adjective, Fox tells the following story: “The first thing my dad did when I got to New York was walk me to the corner and point to the street sign. My family is Italian, traditional Catholic, and suddenly I was living with a crazy man in New York.” “It was just a total 180 from what I was used to. Her father, meanwhile, was “living in New York, like, figuring it out, trying to get an apartment and living on a boat.” When he landed a construction job and signed a lease, Fox left Italy to live full-time in Yorkville, a posh neighborhood on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. I don’t ever want to limit myself based on what other people have told me I am.”īorn in Milan to an Italian mother and American father, Fox’s early years were spent living with her grandfather near Milan because of her parents’ strained relationship. “I want to explore myself in every facet. (In 2017, she accused notable artist and photographer Chuck Close of lewd conduct during a 2013 shoot. She’s been a New York City teenage troublemaker, It girl, muse, club kid turned club owner, poet, author, artist, photographer, painter, provocateur, domestic violence survivor, a Page Six headline-maker and someone who has raised her voice to say #MeToo. From any other ingenue, the latter sounds like a publicist talking point - but not from her.įox lived many lives before making her way to the big screen, and this corner booth inside the bar where she sips a Coke and recaps the journey. The role has given her a shot at a Hollywood career, one she hopes will include more acting and, later, producing, directing and, somehow, a way to further infuse art with activism. After the film’s TIFF world premiere, she earned buzz for her portrayal of his rough-around-the-edges mistress, signed with WME and, in October, earned a Gotham Award nom for breakout actor. The 29-year-old took on her first acting job in Josh and Benny Safdie’s two-hour adrenaline rush, Uncut Gems, playing a jewelry store employee and girlfriend of Howard Ratner, a gambling addict played by Adam Sandler. That driver isn’t the only one who’s been unable to take his eyes off Fox as of late. “He couldn’t stop staring and just slammed into another car.” “It was crazy traffic, and I was wearing the Gucci with all these slits up here,” she says, waving a hand - the one with the cigarette - in front of her chest, which is now covered in a black Cactus Jack hoodie. She was posing next to a freeway for a magazine shoot (Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book) when she saw a male driver unable to avert his gaze from her. A freshly lit cigarette in one hand, cellphone in the other, Fox delivers the fender-bender details like a lunch order. It was an hour ago, somewhere in Hollywood, about a mile from where she’s standing on this late November Friday night in front of a charming watering hole called The Broadwater Plunge on L.A.’s divey theater row.
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