In The Country & Town Magazine SEPTEMBER 2024

Pictured: (L-R) Natasha Lyonne as Rachel, Elizabeth Olsen as Christina and Carrie Coon as Katie

“I really liked that there is such a distinct portrait of three completely different women,” Lyonne, 45, reflects.

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“And I loved getting to do it with these two extraordinary women, so that each of us were really carved out in our own way.” Lyonne plays Rachel, a stoner who has never moved out of her father’s apartment – decisions which her stepsisters look on with displeasure. The other sisters – Coon’s Katie and Olsen’s Christina – share a different mother and a different worldview, putting Rachel on the outside of the sisterly dynamic. “It’s so rare – you know, usually it’s kind of a template, a type of a girl, or an amalgamation of what it might be like… Here was the inverse of that – (writer-director) Aza had built this world of three fully realised singular women who… each had their own reason to believe that they were the ones that were in the most grief,” Lyonne adds. The intimate story of sisterhood in the most difficult of times was inspired, in part, by writer-director Jacobs, 51, returning to New York City and reflecting on the lives of strangers, while also finding himself confronting the mortality of his own parents – including his 91-year-old filmmaker father Ken Jacobs.

His Three Daughters is raw ex- ploration of grief, say stars Na- tasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen By Rachael Davis, PA Entertainment Features Writer Grief can be felt long before someone dies. It’s often just as hard to come to terms with a loved one’s declining health, knowing that the final goodbye is just around the corner, as it is to deal with the loss itself. His Three Daughters, a new film from French Exit director Azazel Jacobs, follows three sisters through the period of pre-mourning by their father’s bedside. Fargo’s Carrie Coon, Marvel’s Elizabeth Olsen and Orange Is The New Black’s Natasha Lyonne come together in this family portrait, portraying distinctly different sisters whose relationship is tested by the heightened emotions, unthinkable decisions and painful admin involved in preparing for their parent’s death.

“I wanted to tell this story for a few reasons,” he explains.

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