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Press | Life After Television, October 2009 Lauren Ambrose didn’t spend much time grieving the end of Six Feet Under four years ago. “Literally the day the show was over, I ran back to New York so I could work in the theatre again,” she says. “I try to do a play a year and I didn’t quite get to do that in Los Angeles.” So it’s no surprise that since the HBO series about a family of morticians ended, the 31-year-old has worked mostly on stage, although she co-stars (sort of) as one of the titular beasts in Where the Wild Things Are. The movie has been years in the making, with reports of clashes between director Spike Jonze and the studio over the film’s dark tone. “From what I gathered, Spike fought to make the movie he wanted to make and do Maurice Sendak’s book justice. And that’s what a great adaptation should be - which is taking nothing from the original work but only building on it and making it its own piece of art.” As for future projects, Ambrose doesn’t rule out a return to the small screen, although she admits, “Six Feet Under was an idealized version of working in television, or so I’ve been told. I was spoiled.” |