“This looks crazy that that’s in the background, sorry,” Chase Infiniti says as she sits in front of a “One Battle After Another” poster featuring herself.
She’s trying to find a place in her Los Angeles home to prop up her phone for our Zoom interview on an April afternoon, and she’s had to settle for a spot that immediately recalls her performance as Willa in Paul Thomas Anderson’s best picture Oscar-winner.
“It’s just going to have to stay; we’ll pretend that it’s not there,” the 26-year-old star of “The Testaments” says with an embarrassed smile.
That’s a pretty hard thing for those in Infiniti’s orbit to do these days, as her critical acclaim and popularity has only increased since her breakout role in “Battle” last year.
But when she was filming Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” last spring, Infiniti was able to maintain a level of normalcy around her peers. She’d done some theater and counted Apple TV’s “Presumed Innocent” as her one previous screen credit. And then “One Battle” began its marketing campaign.
