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Juliette Lewis Remembers Her First Day as a Chair


“Chair in, chair out.”

In By Design, which premiered at Sundance, she plays a woman whose body swaps with a chair, and in her decades-long career in Hollywood, it’s safe to say it was a new experience. “I’ve been doing this 30+ years, and that was a fun first day.” Despite the novelty of the idea, it was still an “easy” set to work on as the team focused on “servicing the story” at its core, explained Lewis’ co-star, Mamoudou Athie, who plays a piano player named Olivier. But when she comes across a beautiful chair she can’t afford, she gets Freaky Friday ’d, body swapping with piece and eventually ending up in the possession of Olivier (Athie).

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