American actor Greta Gerwig is lensed by Marlene Marino with styling by Gro Curtis for Dazed Digital./ Makeup by Emi Kaneki; Conrad Dornan

Gerwig was interviewed about her new film ‘Mistress America’, where she plays a Times Square resident and adventurous young New York woman who befriends Tracy, a lonely college freshman soon to become her stepsister.

In addition to starring as Brooke, Ms. Gerwig co-wrote the screenplay with director Noah Baumbach, and also served as one of the producers. Some of the wittiest or most insightful lines sound as though they were ad-libbed or mined from sensational scribbles in a notebook, but they were carefully plotted.

“The movie is very precisely scripted. We don’t allow for any improvisation or deviation from the script,” she said in a phone call from Philadelphia during a publicity stop.

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