In I m Your Woman, Rachel Brosnahan Runs and Guns with a Baby on Her Hip

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star leads her first feature and helps tell a story usually never seen onscreen. When Rachel Brosnahan first read the script for Im Your Woman (Amazon Studios), a 70sinflected crime thriller inspired by Tuesday Welds character in Michael Manns 1981 Thief, she was alone in a hotel room. She responded to the way cowriterdirector Julia Hart (Fast Color) and cowriterproducer Jordan Horowitz (La La Land) gave the genre a feminist twist, a shift in perspective. Even after her breakout success on House of Cards and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Brosnahan doesnt get scripts like this, she said in our Zoom call, above. Im not seeing the kind of threedimensional, bold, and dynamic women I want to play, she said. This script leapt off the page. Its a story about motherhood, for one thing. After thief Eddie (Bill Heck) drops an infant in the arms of his sad suburban housewife Jean, she brightens up. But then he suddenly takes off, leavin