{"id":66741,"date":"2026-02-22T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/rose-byrne-on-playing-a-woman-at-the-end-of-her-rope-in-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:51:40","slug":"rose-byrne-on-playing-a-woman-at-the-end-of-her-rope-in-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/rose-byrne-on-playing-a-woman-at-the-end-of-her-rope-in-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Byrne on playing a woman at the end of her rope in &#8220;If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>You might know Rose Byrne as a condescending bridesmaid, or as a dramatic actor going toe-to-toe with Glenn Close, or maybe as half of a Hollywood power couple with actor Bobby Cannavale.<\/p>\n<p>But now, in &#8220;If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You,&#8221; Rose Byrne is just a woman at the end of her rope. <\/p>\n<p>Her character&#8217;s life is a smorgasbord of disaster: a working mom with a demanding job, with a very sick kid, who&#8217;s been forced to live in a motel after a plumbing disaster ruined their house. Not even her therapist (played by Conan O&#8217;Brien) is much help.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch a scene from &#8220;If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You&#8221;:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/S1-JkhKsTls?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"\u201cIf I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You\u201d clip: Linda\u2019s phone call\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/S1-JkhKsTls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cIf I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You\u201d clip: Linda\u2019s phone call<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBSSundayMorning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS Sunday Morning<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a portrait of a woman stretched to the limits, and Byrne says she just had to play her.<\/p>\n<p>She says the script by writer-director Mary Bronstein was &#8220;really like nothing I&#8217;d read before. It was very unique. And then I gave it to Bobby, my husband, and he&#8217;s always my first sounding board. And he was like, &#8216;Oh, she&#8217;s got something to say. You should find out what this is.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/21\/ba358975-e813-4906-9a46-efd7766457aa\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/3e1e811a247f2f28651b5f30e72bf4aa\/rose-byrne-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-a24-1280.jpg#\" alt=\"rose-byrne-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-a24-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/21\/ba358975-e813-4906-9a46-efd7766457aa\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/3e1e811a247f2f28651b5f30e72bf4aa\/rose-byrne-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-a24-1280.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/21\/ba358975-e813-4906-9a46-efd7766457aa\/thumbnail\/1240x930g2\/24c23c67fd980c8ccf37fabd474559e9\/rose-byrne-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-a24-1280.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">At least there is wine: Rose Byrne as a woman whose life is an uphill battle in &#8220;If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                A24<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Byrne says she had a sense she had to do the film: &#8220;Oh gosh, where to begin? It&#8217;s incredible, what a gift. Like, how could I <em>not<\/em> do this, you know? Like, why wouldn&#8217;t I do this? I just didn&#8217;t wanna mess it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t mess it up. Byrne&#8217;s performance earned her a nomination for the best actress Oscar. She&#8217;s already won a Golden Globe, for which she was genuinely surprised: &#8220;I was, yeah. I mean, oh my gosh, there&#8217;s performances, actresses in my category, I really was very surprised, and my speech was ridiculous and I was, like, totally unprepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Born outside Sydney, Australia, Mary Rose Byrne first got noticed in a big way for her role opposite Heath Ledger in the 1999 crime comedy &#8220;Two Hands.&#8221; People in Hollywood saw something in her that was captivating, and with the help of Ledger, her career began to take off. &#8220;Heath was very instrumental. He would introduce me to casting agents, and get me in on the books,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Very supportive. Always very generous. Yeah, he had a generosity of spirit, Heath. He had a big house where we all used to congregate, all the Aussies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think when you come from far away, from Australia, and it&#8217;s a very small population, you hang onto people you meet along the way, and you help each other out,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s she shuttled back and forth between home in Sydney and Hollywood. Visiting her old neighborhood, she took us to the diner Swingers, where she&#8217;d hang out back in the day with friends like fellow Aussie actor Joel Edgerton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/21\/e1b43aa2-858a-4d97-8925-b9cadd7edac1\/thumbnail\/620x465\/48059e86641ecb647362591e0e2cca5e\/rose-byrne-at-swingers.jpg#\" alt=\"rose-byrne-at-swingers.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/21\/e1b43aa2-858a-4d97-8925-b9cadd7edac1\/thumbnail\/620x465\/48059e86641ecb647362591e0e2cca5e\/rose-byrne-at-swingers.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/21\/e1b43aa2-858a-4d97-8925-b9cadd7edac1\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/19553b4dd9e5f994b38e71b53a7e6ebc\/rose-byrne-at-swingers.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Rose Byrne.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For starving actors, the place had just what they needed: low prices and great fries.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>She said she&#8217;d get homesick: &#8220;It was intimidating. It was also, like, you have to walk through the fire, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But by 2004 things were looking up when she started landing roles in movies like &#8220;Troy&#8221; with a nearly-naked Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n<p>The TV series &#8220;Damages&#8221; helped establish her reputation as a serious actor. But a few years later, she made a conscious decision to move into comedy and show the world that she could be as funny as anyone, with &#8220;Bridesmaids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really joyful,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We all really got along really well. And that&#8217;s lovely. And that&#8217;s not always the case. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve had a million actors in this chair of, like, the experience you have doesn&#8217;t always reflect how the film&#8217;s received or really does. And, for me, it was both. It was a joyful experience shooting it, and then having the success of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She and Bobby Cannavale have appeared together in films like the 2015 comedy &#8220;Spy,&#8221; but Byrne says their other collaboration, their two children, has been a bit of a game-changer for her life and her career.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She says she has definitely said &#8220;no&#8221; to more things: &#8220;Of course. Absolutely. No, things won&#8217;t work out, or I can&#8217;t do it. Or made mistakes along the way. Always making mistakes. Or that I should have pushed for this more, or that more, or I should have said, &#8216;No,&#8217; or I should have said, &#8216;Yes.&#8217; I&#8217;m as imperfect as the next person of trying to figure it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what she thinks the Rose Byrne of the days at Swingers Diner would think of Rose Byrne now, she replied, &#8220;I think she wouldn&#8217;t be able to believe it. There&#8217;s no guarantees in this business. I am firmly aware of that \u2026 maybe, too much.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For her next act she&#8217;ll be moving to Broadway this spring to appear in Noel Coward&#8217;s &#8220;Fallen Angels.&#8221; But for now, she&#8217;s on the exhilarating and exhausting ride of an Oscar nominee, and truly happy just to be \u00a0here.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t have expectations around anything, because it&#8217;s so out of my control,&#8221; she said. &#8220;All I can control is what I did between action and cut. And I can put effort into other stuff, but <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> what I love, and that&#8217;s the moment that I love the most. And it&#8217;s <em>mine<\/em>, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To watch a trailer for &#8220;If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You&#8221; click on the video player below: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ywFDoT7LBbQ?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You | Official Trailer HD | A24\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ywFDoT7LBbQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You | Official Trailer HD | A24<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@A24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A24<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WEB EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-rose-byrne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Extended interview &#8211; Rose Byrne (Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-rose-byrne\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Extended interview: Rose Byrne<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">29:14<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by John D&#8217;Amelio. 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