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Annie Hägg where passion meets talent Photographer + Glam David Goddard Written by Justine Duclaux

The talented Annie Hägg is from New York and a former student of the renowned Yale School of Drama. Passionate about foreign languages, she has a gift for roles that require an accent or a fluency in a foreign language. The actress is the most electric talent to storm into Hollywood on Amazon’s original series, “Hunters.” She worked hard to get into character. In this intimate interview, Annie Hägg offers anecdotes about her life, the “Hunters” series and her future projects in other films to push herself out of her comfort zone.

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What inspired you to pursue a career as school. It is a pretty important rite of pasan actor? sage in the acting program, and students spend months searching for their subject, From an early age, I loved pretending to as did I. be other people. I was constantly creating characters and taking them out into I probably conducted about two dozen inthe world. One of my favorite things to do terviews in five different cities until I realized was to dress up as my mom—stuffed bra, that the ideal subject was right under my floral dress, lipstick, the works—and walk nose: Jeanette. Jeanette is my mom’s best around impersonating her. I would take our friend, my de-facto godmother, and the cat Snuffy and go to the grocery store in greatest storyteller I know. So I took the full mom regalia. I walked down the aisles train down to New York and went to visit cradling Snuffy like a baby in one arm and her. carrying a shopping basket in the other. I I had struck gold. Jeanette regaled me with realized that because I took the character stories for hours about growing up in New seriously, other people did too and played York in the 1950s, about Beatlemania and along. So when I would ask the prices of the Vietnam war, about having to get an ilthings and order half a pound of smoked legal abortion in New Jersey, about the men turkey I was responded to and treated as who had broken her heart, about raising her the ‘mother with child’ that I was playing. daughter alone, and finally, about what it Pretending to be someone else brought me felt like to be an older woman and feel inso much joy that I just never wanted to stop visible. She told me her story, with all the doing it. pain and all the triumphs, with the sort of Share with us a fun anecdote about your openness and vulnerability one can only time at Yale Drama School. offer to the dearest of friends. And it was heart wrenching. I got back to New Haven, Our final year at Yale culminates with sometyped up the full text and began the diffithing called “The Interview Project.” For the cult task of cutting it down to ten minutes assignment, we are tasked with interviewing (which seemed criminal, but necessary). As someone and then creating a ten-minute for the lilt of her voice, her facial expressions performance using our subject’s words and and her gestures—I had been studying them physicality. We then bring this person to life unconsciously since my infancy. in front of not just our class but the entire

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Finally, on the day we gave our presentations, I invited Jeanette up to New Haven to watch the performance. After I finished, I looked up and there she was in the front row, with tears in her eyes. Which of course, made me cry too! But the best part was afterward watching everyone go up to her and thank her for sharing her amazing life with us.

I can’t express how meaningful it was for me to be the conduit bringing Jeanette’s story to the world. As actors we are tasked to bring our whole selves–all our experiences, all our joys and sufferings, all the people we’ve loved and who’ve loved us–to every role.

So what happens when the person you’re playing is already part of you? During the performance, I was not only speaking her words and using her gestures but in some sort of cosmic way channeling her essence through years of interactions from some very deep place inside me. It was one of the most rewarding performances of my life.

Natasha in a very experimental production of The Three Sisters helmed by the great Russian director Dmitry Krymov. Natasha is this sort of harsh and vulgar provincial girl who marries into this highly-educated, refined and sensitive family and eventually takes over the entire household. She is vicious and manipulative and everyone hates her so what was interesting for me was figuring out how to not just play her as a villain. I really loved exploring her fragility and vulnerability, and she’s also very funny!

I guess I loved playing her because I had to advocate for the parts of her that no one can see or understand, but are there beneath the surface, like a secret.

Tell us what you love about your role in the “Hunters” series.

What I love most about Ruth is how she never loses sight of who she is and what she stands for, no matter the circumstances. Her entire family has been killed, she is imprisoned, dehumanized and starved, and Of all the roles you have played in the yet, she somehow maintains hope. Can you past, which one is your favorite? And imagine having hope in Auschwitz? I love why is that? her because she is a beacon of light in unimaginable darkness.

Right after I got out of drama school I played

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What are some challenges you faced Where does your passion for foreign lanwhile on set? guages come from?

I would say the biggest challenge was figuring out how to let go of being Ruth once the cameras were off. It’s not something you just snap out of. On the day we shot the scene where I had all my hair cut off, I came home and broke out in hives. Even though your brain knows it’s pretend, your body doesn’t.

Now, what was your favorite moment and why?

Something that really sticks out is the day we shot the chess scene in the pilot. In the scene, I see my little sister Chava (played by Cassidy Layton) about to get killed in front of me, and Young Meyer (played by Zack Schor) has to restrain me from intervening to save her. I went to some very dark places in my imagination that day and in between takes, my scene partner Zack held my hand in a death grip – almost like a lifeline tethering me to something safe even though internally I was in a real place of horror. I found Zack’s generosity and support for his fellow actor so moving. We shot practically every scene together and I’m so grateful to him. We really had each other’s backs.

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Language allows you to connect to people who are different from you. I think I understood this intuitively at a very young age.

When I was in elementary school in New York in the ‘90s, I happened to be in class with large numbers of children whose families had fled the Balkan region because of the war in Kosovo. So every day I was constantly hearing Albanian, Bosnian Serbian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian. I was always very drawn to the way these languages sounded, and would try to repeat what I heard my classmates saying, and because I have always been a good mimic, I was generally successful. I asked them to teach me how to say things (and of course I especially wanted to know the curse words because I was that kind of girl) and the result was that these kids accepted me into their group in a way that the other American kids weren’t.

That’s purely because of language. And even though I was a kid just trying to make friends, I understand now that I’ve been using language my whole life to connect to people who are different from me.

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You speak Spanish, Swedish, German What’s the best advice you’ve ever and English… What language would been given in this industry? you like to learn next?

“We have very little time, so we must Russian. I’m a bit of a Russophile. I love slow down.” My Shakespeare teacher all things Russian: the history, the litera- at Yale Peter Francis James says this. It ture, the theatre, the culture, the music, seems paradoxical, but the point is that the food, and I think the language itself we burn lots of time just by being imis stunningly beautiful. patient, which leads to sloppiness and mistakes. You get lost because you’ve Please name an actor that has inmissed the street signs by trying to move spired you in your own performances quickly, so you’ve got to slow down. He and explain why. was talking about Shakespeare, but it apGiulietta Masina as Gelsomina—the plies to anything, really. child-like clown in Fellini’s La Strada — What sort of acting roles will you be is one of my favorite performances of all seeking in the future? time. Surrounded by brutality, she never ceases to move through the world with Oh I would love to do a comedy. It’s joy, wonder, and openness. Her vulner- funny, I played lots of comedic roles in ability is her strength. There is a scared drama school but since I’ve been out little child inside all of us, and of course, working I have been cast in almost excluinside every character ever written. To sively dramatic roles. I’ve been playing a not forget the child inside, no matter lot of victims recently–victims of abuse, who I am playing, is something Giulietta of violence, of war. I think it’s the eyes.

Masina taught me.

But I can be funny too. I’d love to do something where I get to be funny.

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