HBO’s new show about the music biz in the 1970s is brought to you by some of the biggest names on the planet: Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger. But it’s someone you’ve probably never heard of before—Juno Temple—who steals it.
Juno Temple is on the porch of her house in Los Angeles talking about Vinyl, HBO’s new workplace drama/rock ’n’ roll dreamscape/ode to cocaine and private-jet misbehavior. Empire meets Boardwalk Empire, basically, plus about seven other shows, and that’s just in the pilot. Temple plays a young assistant trying to elbow aside the dim men above her—the show’s Peggy Olson.
At just 26, Temple has already made a career of playing badass (and often naked) women in films like Killer Joe and Kaboom. Because of this, she’s earned a deserved reputation for being fearless, but also an annoying reputation for taking her clothes off on-screen—as if the latter weren’t just a manifestation of the former. Like her character on Vinyl, she’s used to ignoring those who underestimate her: “Like, ‘Oh, my God, Juno has three movies at Sundance, and she’s got her tits out in two of them!’ ” From her porch, she takes a weary breath. “Who gives a flying fuck, dude?”
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