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Mar 22, 2019 · Joanna Kulig (pronounced like Yoanna Cool-ig) is a 36-year-old actress and singer from Poland who happens to be Pawlikowski’s muse. The auteur wrote the part of Zula, a young Polish singer who...
- Meghan O'keefe
Jan 22, 2019 · Zula’s self-destructive nature, which stems partly from the abuse she was subjected to as a child, reminded Kulig of tragic figures like Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston, whose careers began...
- Anne Cohen
Polish actress Joanna Kulig says Pawel Pawlikowski based her “Cold War” character Zula on his own mother. The film is loosely inspired by his parents’ relationship, and sees Zula and Wiktor...
Nov 22, 2018 · Joanna Kulig talks about her starring role in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War and how her musicality was an asset to playing Zula. Cold War hits Berlin cinemas on Nov 22. With the monumental success of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War at Cannes, Polish actress Joanna Kulig, 36, has been thrust into the international spotlight.
Like her character Zula, Kulig comes from a small Polish town, Muszynka, a place of approximately 400 people nestled in the mountains, where she was one of five siblings and countless cousins.
Dec 21, 2018 · Zula (Joanna Kulig), a beautiful and volatile blonde who may have been imprisoned for stabbing her father (“He mistook me for my mother so I used a knife to show him the difference”), cons her...
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Joanna Kulig, who also appeared in Pawlikowski’s Ida and Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents, has won several film festival and film critic associations’ awards for her remarkable performance as Zula. I was delighted to sit down with her in Los Angeles to talk about the film.
