The future of Oona Chaplin (Madrid, 1986) was written even before his birth and weighs as much as an immaterial and intangible heritage can weigh, which has moved people across the world, generation after generation, and continues to do so: a lot, sometimes too much. Great-granddaughter … Nobel Prize winner for literature Eugene O’Neill, granddaughter of Charles Chaplin, daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin and cinematographer Patricio Castillo. If he doesn’t have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he should do so by right of inheritance.
“Who compares me to Chaplin? He’s a genius. He did everything. He directed, composed, wrote, edited… It’s a myth, there is no comparison. For me, this is not a problem. I am very grateful, I admire him. When I have to do a casting, I concentrate on giving the best of myself. Because if I start thinking about him… I’m done. There is no competition there. For me, the important thing is the legacy of hard work, effort, heart in everything I do,” recognizes the actress, who worked on four films with her mother, in an interview with ABC in Madrid.
“When you come to work, you have to work. Maybe I’m more used to it because I have the last name I have.”
Because descending from true legends did not help Oona Chaplin to escape castings reserved for the most common of mortals. The last signature of James Cameron got the “gift” of playing the indomitable Varang in “Avatar: Fire and Ashes” thanks to the scene with Stephen Lang (Miles Quaritch) in the yurt. “I don’t know what the take was like, but I passed the test,” he jokes. It also reached those of other international projects. It is, he says, “a mixture of luck and intuition”, which he does not do “on purpose”. It’s hard to imagine where he would end up if he did.
Currently, Oona Chaplin was Talisa Maegyr, Robb Stark’s wife in “Game of Thrones”, who died in red weddingone of the most shocking episodes of the series. She was also the girlfriend of Martin Freeman’s Dr. Watson in an episode of “Sherlock” and the sister and lover of Tom Hardy in “Taboo”. He also appears in the credits of the fourth film “Avatar”, in the air while waiting for the broadcast of “Fire and Ash”. “Of course you have to participate in these projects, but in the end, when you get to work, you have to work. Maybe I’m more used to it because I have the last name I have,” she says.
The actress admits that her goal, always, is to “honor the legacy” of her family, even if she has sometimes felt that they open “doors” for her that she does not deserve. “But here, in this world, no one deserves anything. This whole merit thing… No one deserves anything in this world. This is what you must do… This door opens for you. Are you coming in? How to enter? What will you bring? That’s what matters. I focused on that because I can control it,” he says.
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