Hollywood keeps losing Laura Linney’s phone number
In a recent interview, Ozark star and one of America’s best actors Laura Linney talks Congo, Love Actually and why we don't see more of her

Laura Linney has had a lot of success. Having just wrapped the final season of Ozark, which she still hasn’t watched, the three-time Oscar-nominee and four-time Emmy-winner tells Vulture in a wide-ranging, must-read interview that she’s going through Ozark “withdrawal.” But that’s nothing compared to the withdrawal we Linney-heads have experienced during her career.
Per Vulture, a distinct lack of Linney is due to a distinct lack of offers, apparently. Take her role in Congo, a modest ape-based Michael Crichton adaptation made in Jurassic Park’s wake that Linney was cast in after the Ellie role in Jurassic Park went to Laura Dern. After its release, roles in blockbusters didn’t come in. “I’ve just never been offered one,” Linney says. “There’s a myth that you’re offered a ton of things. And I am offered some things. If a huge blockbuster came my way.” She was in one, Vulture notes, 2016's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows.
Yeesh, what about after The Truman Show? Surely, Linney got a few calls after that critical and commercial success, right?
“I had a bit of a dry spell after The Truman Show,” Linney says. “I remember thinking, Maybe that was just it. Maybe it was just that one nice little movie, and that was that. And that’s just what a career does. It ebbs and flows.”