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Havana Rose Liu is doing everything she can to keep the United States’ job numbers at a respectable level. She not only has two movies in theaters at this very moment — Daniel Roher’s Tuner and John Carney’s Power Ballad — but she also has a third one coming in July, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell. If that hat trick of films wasn’t enough, she’s already reteamed with her latter co-star, Sophie Thatcher, for the Cate Blanchett-produced Peaches, and then she has three A24 films in the pipeline from filmmakers Jesse Eisenberg, Arkasha Stevenson and Alex Garland.
The Brooklyn’s native’s prolific run of seven new features is all the more impressive when you consider that she never set out to be an actor. Discovered on the street when she was a student at NYU, her career largely materialized during the pandemic. A starring role in 20th Century’s No Exit (2022) and a head-turning part in the critically acclaimed high-school comedy Bottoms (2023) seemingly opened the flood gates from there.
“When you lay it all out like this, it makes me overwhelmed,” Liu tells The Hollywood Reporter in response to her list of recent work. “I still feel imposter syndrome all the time. But I’ve given up a lot to live this life, and that makes me feel less outside of it. I’ve found a home here.”
