And when Venus in Fur opened on the Great White Way last November, she headlined again, this time taking home a Tony for her performance.
In just one audition, she won a career-making role: the title character of David Ives's provocative play Venus in Fur at the Classic Stage Company, off-Broadway.
And as with the beginning of "Venus in Fur" in which the actress explodes into the audition room sometimes it's not the words that matter but how they're delivered.
This is the quintessential rock and roll bar: cheap (as in barely drinkable) vodka in plastic glasses, Venus in Fur posters, and long-haired bad boy barmen who double as djs.
As well-versed in his craft as he is, he saw a new gear when going over the script of "Venus in Fur" with director Roman Polanski, who is making a film from the play.
And while I loved "Venus in Fur, " I'd also like to see what miracles of the imagination Mr. Ives would conjure up were a fearlessly deep-pocketed producer to place a cast of 25 at his disposal.
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Only God Forgives, which reunites Drive star Ryan Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn will be in competition this year alongside Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Roman Polanski's Venus In Fur and Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen brothers.
Sure, it belongs off-Broadway, but if you don't see it now, you won't get to see Cristin Milioti, who is giving the kind of performance that in a just world would do for her what "Venus in Fur" did for Nina Arianda.
Film director Roman Polanski had invited him to a snazzy cafe to talk more about adapting his Tony Award-nominated play "Venus in Fur" into a movie when the pair spotted the chic "God of Carnage" playwright Yasmina Reza sitting with a distinguished-looking gentleman.
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