Alexandra Daddario is setting the record straight that she is “not a bad actress,” despite what some critics might say.
The Mayfair Witches star, who has appeared in dozens of projects throughout her career, was recently asked by Elle magazine to name the “most outrageous rumor you’ve heard about yourself that won’t go away.”
Daddario quickly responded: “That I’m a bad actress.”
Looking straight into the camera, she went on to defend herself and her talents. “I’m not a bad actress,” The White Lotus star explained. “I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased. OK? Directing and the writing is everything. Sometimes I’m lit poorly, but I’m not a bad actress. I got an Emmy nomination. How do you think I did that?”
In 2022, Daddario scored an Emmy nod for best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie for her role as Rachel Patton in season one of Mike White’s hit HBO show, The White Lotus.
Following her first onscreen role on the soap opera All My Children in the early 2000s, she went on to appear in numerous projects, including Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Baywatch, True Detective, Texas Chainsaw and San Andreas, among others.
Elsewhere in her interview with Elle, Daddario was also asked about an “acting gig you regret doing.”
“I have a lot of acting gigs I regret doing. This is a hard one, but I’ll be vague,” she said, deciding not to name the movie. “With all due respect to everyone who worked hard and who I worked with, there was an independent film that I shot that was a disaster. A lot of infighting, producers walking off set, just chaos. I don’t want to say the name though, because you can’t, but I hated working on that. The movie doesn’t have to be good, but you know, fighting is not something that I’m into.”
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