![]() ![]() “It was a huge role, and we knew it was going to be very, very hard. Metzler, who spent time at domestic violence and emergency shelters in preparation for Maid, is the first to admit she breathed a sigh of relief when she first met Qualley. She even installed a car seat in her own car for when they went on drives, during which the two would have sing-alongs. They’d go out for ice cream (which luckily can never taste bad), and Qualley had crayons and snacks on hand for Rylea at all times. They tasted bad because I’d never cooked vegan pancakes before,” she says. If we were supposed to go to the grocery store, we’d go to the grocery store. “We’d go through the scenes for the week together. “So my mission was focused on Rylea the whole time.to make sure that she felt cozy and safe in my arms.” That meant spending time with Rylea and her family off set and on weekends for the majority of the production. “The biggest hurdle to get over to be a believable mom,” says Qualley, who is 26. Needless to say, Qualley’s work didn’t end once the cameras stopped rolling. The raw and gut-wrenching drama centers around Alex (Qualley), the resilient single mother to three-year-old Maddy (played by Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) who escapes an abusive relationship, experiences homelessness, and scrapes by as a house cleaner. She was simply busy appearing in every single scene of the 10-part series, based on Stephanie Land’s memoir, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. Qualley’s lack of mother-daughter time with MacDowell had nothing to do with regressive teen angst or a craving for independence. “That was the only time I saw her at all during the week.” She would come over and have soup with me, and we would get massages,” says MacDowell, who plays Qualley’s mother on camera too. “On Sundays, I would make bone broth from scratch with loads of vegetables. Her mother, Andie MacDowell, says that she hardly ever saw her daughter off set while they were filming their first project together, Netflix’s Maid-out October 1-over the course of nine months in Victoria, British Columbia. Margaret Qualley is one hell of a hard worker. ![]()
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