Before Sunday’s first episode, the HBO miniseries already had plenty of buzz. And Sharp Objects, which stars Amy Adams, is based on Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s novel, and is directed by Big Little Lies‘ Jean-Marc Vallée, is tipped to be Scanlen’s own breakthrough. And then Brad Pitt! Wasn’t that his breakout role?” When we arrived to the apartment we’re staying at, I researched it-apparently, Jodie Foster and Meryl Streep were going to play Thelma and Louise, but timing didn’t work out. “I watched Thelma and Louise for the first time,” she said. But rather than catch up on sleep ahead of a very busy week, Scanlen had used the flight to catch up on the classics. It recently took the 19-year-old actress from Sydney, Australia a 14-hour flight to Los Angeles, where she attended the premiere of her new miniseries, Sharp Objects, which debuted on HBO Sunday night, and then another six hours to New York for additional press. Nine thousand, nine hundred, and twenty-nine miles far, give or take. It’s a summer morning in New York, and Eliza Scanlen is far from home.
