She shares her West Village apartment with Gracie, her 14-year-old bichon frisé-poodle-Maltese mix; her friends are fellow artists — actors, comedians, directors — and her tastes are eclectic. Her idea of a good movie, she said, would be something from “the Estonian film festival I saw 10 years ago.”Like her best-known characters, Ms. Posey carries herself with a blithe spirit that conceals a cutting sense of humor. She spent a walk through her neighborhood on the lookout for starlings and blue jays, and when asked for the address of a restaurant she recommended, she answered: “I’m not going to tell you. I’m a practicing psychic and I want to see if you can read my mind.”For Ms. Posey, playing Dr. Smith is an opportunity to cavort among the stars on a big-budget series and to put her unique stamp on a beloved cult-TV character. But it’s also an acknowledgment of how challenging it has become, even for an actor of Ms. Posey’s stature, to make a living solely from small prestigious films in today’s industry.

Source: New York Times April 16, 2018 16:30 UTC