The actress stars alongside Adam Driver in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel.
“I had a sense of what she was meant to look like,” she says.
“I saw her hair, her acrylic nails, her wardrobe.
Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig in ‘White Noise’.Wilson Webb/Netflix
I just could visualize all of it, and I wanted very much to play her.
Like, sure, it’s me, in this world that doesn’t exist.
I can’t even leave the apartment.
‘White Noise’.Wilson Webb/Netflix
[Laughs] I might as wellnotplay Babette too!
And then it became real.”
“I’ve known Adam since I was about 21- or 22-years-old,” says Gerwig.
“I was friends with someone who was in his first professional play.
Yeah, he’s extraordinary.
Gerwig’s interest in DeLillo’s novel long predated her relationship with Baumbach.
“I think I underlined two things on every single page and I kept writing ‘Ha!’
I think I had remembered exact passages from it because I loved it so much.”
“It had been 15 years since I read it, more,” she says.
“We shot around different areas but mostly college towns,” she says.
“It was like living in our own crazy miniature circus for months.
It was really extraordinary in that way.
I was like, well, that’s genius.
White Noiseis screening in select theaters and on Netflix Dec. 30.
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