I actually like Alexandra Daddario? Overall, she seems pretty harmless and kind of cool. The photos from her New Orleans wedding were amazing. She’s beautiful in a girl-next-door sort of way. She got famous for her small role in the first season of True Detective, and she was great in the first season of The White Lotus. She’s just a jobbing actress, and she’s not pretending to be the second coming of Meryl Streep or anything. Well, Daddario was recently asked what outrageous rumor she’d heard about herself and her answer was… somewhat odd.
Alexandra Daddario is setting the record straight that she is “not a bad actress,” despite what some critics might say. The Mayfair Witches star, who has appeared in dozens of projects throughout her career, was recently asked by Elle magazine to name the “most outrageous rumor you’ve heard about yourself that won’t go away.” Daddario quickly responded: “That I’m a bad actress.”
Looking straight into the camera, she went on to defend herself and her talents. “I’m not a bad actress,” The White Lotus star explained. “I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased. OK? Directing and the writing is everything. Sometimes I’m lit poorly, but I’m not a bad actress. I got an Emmy nomination. How do you think I did that?”
In 2022, Daddario scored an Emmy nod for best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie for her role as Rachel Patton in season one of Mike White’s hit HBO show, The White Lotus. Following her first onscreen role on the soap opera All My Children in the early 2000s, she went on to appear in numerous projects, including Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Baywatch, True Detective, Texas Chainsaw and San Andreas, among others.
Elsewhere in her interview with Elle, Daddario was also asked about an “acting gig you regret doing.”
“I have a lot of acting gigs I regret doing. This is a hard one, but I’ll be vague,” she said, deciding not to name the movie. “With all due respect to everyone who worked hard and who I worked with, there was an independent film that I shot that was a disaster. A lot of infighting, producers walking off set, just chaos. I don’t want to say the name though, because you can’t, but I hated working on that. The movie doesn’t have to be good, but you know, fighting is not something that I’m into.”
Yeah, I don’t think she’s a bad actress either. Again, not the second coming of Meryl Streep, but Daddario can do some stuff. She can play sexy, she can play innocent, she can play nervous-breakdown. It makes sense to me that she seems to be focused more on television work nowadays – that seems to be her wheelhouse, and I’m sure she’d love to do another prestige-show like The White Lotus again. All that being said, “Sometimes I’m lit poorly, but I’m not a bad actress”– GIRL!! Just threw every lighting department under the bus!! HOW DARE YOU LIGHT ME IMPROPERLY, now I’ll never get a second Emmy nom!
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Idk, I always think she looks stunning. I remember her first from the Percy Jackson movies. She’s never struck me as bad at acting? Anyways, I’ve worked on sets before and the way she described that one of people fighting and walking off and drama, yeah, been there, and it’s miserable.
I’m pretty sure of the movie she’s talking about.
She’s gorgeous and I think she was great in White Lotus. But LOL at “small role in True Detective.” I mean, one scene in particular.
Alexandra is not a bad actor by any stretch. She’s not only talented she hits those beats where she really lets the audience go along the ride with her characters. Like Kaiser said, she was great in White Lotus.
Here is where I’ll allow the critique of “pretty privilege” — people can be such haters.
She was impressive in Why women kill, where she definitely showed range. Being drop-dead gorgeous doesn’t hurt either.
This might be a tacky thing to say, but maybe someone like her would excel in a proper erotic thriller.
I sat through a Hallmark Christmas movie that filmed around where I live because I wanted to see the filming locations. THAT had some bad acting – the lead had written the screenplay, and I’m guessing, cast herself.
AD has played some poorly written /annoying characters, but she never came across as a fundamentally bad actress, even if she’s not the most complex, compelling
Alexandra is my absolute Hollywood crush and she was really great in Why Women Kill season 1!
I loved her in the Percy Jackson movies and in San Andreas. She’s definitely not the next Meryl, but she’s got talent.
ROFLMAO… My husband was the Chief Lighting Technician (aka Gaffer) on both seasons of Why Women Kill, including the first season where Alexandra Daddario was one of the stars. He’s retired now, but I’m sure she’ll get razzed on set for this!
She’s a good actress, however the Mayfair Witches, which she stars in now, is terribly written.
I agree Sankay, I loved Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches books but whatever this series is does NOT do them justice.
I’ll confess I didn’t like the Mayfair Witches books–but this adaptation is truly terrible. As well, it’s hard to solve that Talamasca-is-usually-annoying problem, eh? 😉
She’s saying things in jest so perhaps she’s not putting *all* the blame at the writing, directing and lighting. Frankly, if there’s something to add to what she said, she hasn’t been taking roles and projects that feel like passion projects for her and/or anyone else involved.
I wish her career would evolve past jobbing actress. She was a jobbing actress prior to The White Lotus and she has indicated multiple times that The White Lotus was supposed to help her career evolve, but it hasn’t evolved at all despite how much she says things have changed. She really should try finding her way back to studio movies, if only because that would guarantee being in movies that make it to theaters instead of straight to VOD, and she should also look to develop her own projects if it’s an issue that she’s frequently not showcased properly.
She must have lousy agents!
Such a weird take. Whether someone can act or not is entirely subjective opinion, not “rumour.”
I don’t think she meant literally lit poorly by the lighting department. Probably she meant certain roles/direction didn’t put her in the best light- as in, it wasn’t her fault she wasn’t a great actress in that instance.
This will probably be an unpopular take around these parts but…can this site maybe ease off some of the royal stuff (like, literally who cares about Sophie and her husband) for some more TIMELY daily gossip?? I read this headline and was like wait…I swear I’ve heard about Alexandra’s comments before…and I click on the THR link and SURE ENOUGH it’s from FEBRUARY!! Like, what pressing royal story bumped actually CELEBRITY gossip off the docket for that day this interview actually ran?? I really like H&M but it’s getting pretty frustrating that this site is dominated by royal story nothingburgers in lieu of actually CELEBRITY GOSSIP.
I agree, when I see anything on them, I always quickly scoll down to find the story that is not about any of them
I love her answer, “Sometimes I’m poorly lit, but I’m not a bad actress.” I’d love to use that phrase for everything, just deleting the “actress.” Like, “Sometimes I’m poorly lit, but I’m not a bad mother.” It takes so much of the sting out of the criticism (whatever that is).