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Patricia Arquette on Trump, communes, art and ageing: ‘When I was growing up the whole world was pretty creepy’

She won hearts with True Romance – and an Oscar for Boyhood. The actor reflects on her TV show Severance, political chaos in the US and why human beings are a disaster

As for the current political situation in the US, Arquette, who describes herself as an activist, says she is “horrified about a lot of the things” that have swept in with Trump’s second presidency – racism and dismantling of LGBTQ+ rights, the attacks on institutions. “I’m a fourth-generation actor, so I grew up with it, and it was part of the way that we communicated as a family and something we really valued.” In her career, Arquette has worked with leading directors including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater(she won an Oscar for her role in his film Boyhood) and Michel Gondry. I wanted to work with great directors and interesting material, but sometimes you just have to pay your rent and you go for the opportunity, whatever it is.” That said, as her career started to take off after True Romance, Arquette says she turned down more commercial lead roles.

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