Rosalind Eleazar, 38, had a harrowing flight from New York to Los Angeles where the captain admitted they landed with only one quart of 24 required, prompting her to thank God it wasn't over the Atlantic. She had a premonition about messy flights while promoting Chris Rock's new drama "Misty Green" and tried using psychic persuasion on Rock in London. At the end of the interview, she impulsively asked for a hug, commenting on the interviewer's good energy.
Eleazar is best known as the sharp MI5 operative Louisa on Apple TV+'s "Slow Horses" and starred in the 2019 film "The Personal History of David Copperfield" with Dev Patel. She has interspersed screen work with well-received theater performances, including "Small Hotel" opposite Ralph Fiennes. In person, she is laid back and charming, dressed in an oversize denim shirt and black pants, sharing peppermint tea in West Hollywood.
She prepared extensively for her role as Misty, a fallen star with a prickly attitude, cocaine problem, and bad reputation, by walking Los Angeles streets, visiting the Santa Monica boardwalk, Cedars-Sinai hospital, and the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel lounge. Rock wanted her for the role because she embodies Misty's contradictions but is too smart to self-destruct. Eleazar loves the humanly flawed, volatile yet vulnerable nature of Misty, hoping for more female characters allowed to be "[expletive] up and wild.".
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