“The Cleaner” appeared on Netflix in early October 2021 and quickly gained the interest of viewers around the world, although it is not an easy-to-watch series. The production script was based on the novel by Stephanie Land entitled 2019’s “The Cleaner. How to Survive America as a Single Mother Working for Pennies”. he took an interest in the book for a reason: it gained critical acclaim, and what’s more, it quickly made it to number three on The New York Times bestseller list. Work on the screen adaptation began in November 2019.
The phenomenon of the series “Cleaner”
The main character of the series is Alex, who we meet in a difficult moment in life. The start of the girl was not easy: she was brought up in a dysfunctional family, her father treated her to quite a few childhood traumas. She also got married too soon and became pregnant: her husband turned out to be an alcoholic who does not avoid domestic violence. After several years of living in a violent relationship, he decides to run away from his alcoholic partner along with his two-year-old daughter, Maddie. No job, no clothes – only $ 18 left in her pocket. So he looks for support from social welfare. To make ends meet somehow, she works as a cleaner.
For the next year, it will fight not only poverty and tragic random events, but also soulless bureaucracy. As someone summed it up: Following her, you can see seven removals, seven government support programs, 348 clean restrooms, and a night spent on the ferry terminal floor. And on top of that, psychological and financial violence, the sulks of the rich and unimaginative, as well as the compassion of the rich, and the painful struggle for human dignity.
The main role was played by Margaret Qualley – the daughter of Andie MacDowell and her first husband, Paul Qualley. Let us add that “Cleaner” is the first production in which they both played together. MacDowell plays the role of the liberated Paula, the mother of the main character. The report they showed and the truly terrifying scenario with all possible misfortunes fascinated viewers so much that the series remained on the list of the 10 most watched English-language productions for 13 weeks after its premiere. From December 20 to 26, viewers watched it for 8,750,000 hours, the previous week for 10,620,000 hours and even before 12,540,000 hours.
Kariera Margaret Qualley
Qualley was born in 1994 and has already been nominated for an Emmy (for her role in the series “Fosse / Verdon”, where she played her idol, choreographer Ann Reinking) and a Golden Globe (for “The Cleaner”).
And her career in the world of film began quite casually. For years she trained at a ballet school, worked as a model. She got her first role in the film by accident – she went to visit her boyfriend Nat Wolff (“Our Wine Stars”, “Paper Towns”) on a film set. There she liked her so much that she got the role herself. It was Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto movie. She was so good at it that she never stopped playing. He has played roles: in the HBO series “Left bank”, Netflix’s film “IO”, “DeathNote” and “Novitiate”. She also starred in Nice Guys with Russel Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Also on the list is “The Chain” and “My Salinger Year”. Viewers can also perfectly associate it with “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” by Quentin Tarantino. There, she portrayed the mad hippie from the Charles Manson sect and seduced the hero Brad Pitt. According to many viewers, she even surpassed Margot Robbie with her performance.
He appears on the screen almost all the time with Brad Pitt, who was awarded for his creation. “The scenes with her were so good that they weren’t cut or re-edited,” said Tarantino. This is an absolute exception, because the rest of the actors had to come to terms with the fact that a large part of their photos had been rejected during editing.
Source: Gazeta
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