The Hollywood industry is rapidly changing post-pandemic. Since her breakout performance in 2013’s The Great Gatsby, Elizabeth Debicki has suddenly become one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood. This point was reaffirmed in early 2019 when celebrated auteur Christopher Nolan cast Debicki as the female lead of his mystery project Tenet.
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Whether it’s her upcoming role as Princess Diana on The Crown, her debut portrayal of a modern icon, or Widows director, Steve McQueen, being the first director to help her embrace her 6-foot-3 height on-screen, Debicki also believes Nolan for her most permanent and most physically demanding role yet. In Tenet, Debicki’s character, Kat, is forced by her estranged husband, Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh), and she must comply with his numerous wishes if she wants the freedom to see her son, Max, as she pleases. The role has led some critics to label Kat as a “damsel in distress,” something Debicki agrees with to an extent but ultimately and rightfully rejects.
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Debicki tells a leading media house: “Some people have said things to me about how she’s captive or that there’s a kind of victim situation. And I don’t deny it because what I loved, in a way, was that it was really drawn into her in the beginning and we do find somebody who’s become victim to the circumstances of her relationship with her husband. But what I also found intriguing and what I found to be really there, written into the character, was someone who had sort of becoming a victim or almost prison to her own thinking about herself, what she was capable of and what she could or couldn’t do.”
