“She knows how to interact with the person onstage, and emotionally she has a really deep well.” “She was capable of improvisation, which is to say she was emotionally available, and she was spontaneous even though she was very disciplined,” Lavey said. Lavey, artistic director of Steppenwolf, recalled Brosnahan as being “very present.”
(That spring Brosnahan was also up for a role on a CBS pilot but turned it down for the chance to act with Steppenwolf.) Jones called Brosnahan’s performance “guileless” and “long on charm and honesty and short on cutesy contrivance.” In 2009, Brosnahan booked a role in Steppenwolf’s “Up,” playing a pregnant teenager opposite Martha Lavey. She approached her work in a very no-nonsense way and without fear.” There was just something ingrained and organic about Rachel. Rachel had “a maturity and a commitment to the process of acting that very few kids have at 16,” Dibo said. Brosnahan’s dedication to the craft was apparent from their first meeting, Dibo said. When Brosnahan was 16, she took a class with Carole Dibo, director of Wilmette’s Actors Training Center and now Brosnahan’s manager. She did it all on her own, and we were really just in the background.” “She wanted to teach herself from the beginning. “She is very self-motivated and always has been,” her mother Carol Brosnahan said. As a teen, she saved her baby-sitting money to attend Broadway Bootcamp, an acting camp. While they were supportive, they didn’t exactly encourage her to focus on acting, they said. Neither of Brosnahan’s parents noted a serious interest in performance until she was in Northwood Junior High School’s musicals, they said during a phone interview. I found I could so easily imagine those worlds.” “I think there was something about that imagining that made me want to act. “I would listen to these amazing narrators (telling) these stories using all different voices, and I used to imagine what the worlds would look like,” she said. … She is that quiet kind of smart.”īorn in Milwaukee, but raised in Highland Park since age 4, Brosnahan points to the books on tape her mother used to play as she fell asleep for giving her an actor’s imagination. I think she is incredibly powerful, and I think she is underrated. They are fighting for agency in their lives and having varying degrees of success. “She is not in a position of power, and I think something that the show explores is that all of these characters are fighting for power. “I think she is incredibly calculated because she has to be,” Brosnahan said of her character. Speaking over Skype, Brosnahan is composed and mature beyond her years, a modern day version of Shakespeare’s Rosalind. Season 2 sees Posner push back against Stamper and attempt to create a life of her own. Since finding herself tied up in Underwood’s plans, she’s been pushed around by his chief of staff Doug Stamper, played by Michael Kelly. The first season revealed that Posner dropped out of high school as a sophomore and strongly implied that her father abused her. At the end of Season 1, Posner was the only person who could connect Underwood to Russo’s tragic end, the only person outside his inner circle who could bring down the eponymous “house of cards.”īrosnahan’s Posner is tough, cunning, untrusting and emotionally worn. The second season of “House of Cards” was released in its entirety on Valentine’s Day.
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