Hailee Steinfeld Says Goodbye To Emily Dickinson and Hello to Hawkeye

After wrapping the third and last season of Dickinson, Hailee Steinfeld acquired drunk. Anna Baryshnikov, who performs her onscreen sister, “took us to a Russian vodka room,” says Steinfeld. The night was a blast, “nevertheless it acquired very emotional in a short time.” Clearly, the actor continues to be processing the ultimate season of Dickinson, which premieres on Apple TV+ Friday. “It nonetheless doesn’t really feel actual,” she tells me over the cellphone. “I’m pleased with what we created. I believe it’s the right ending to this little journey.”

The Oscar nominee govt produced the present, in addition to starring on it because the reclusive poet. It’s the longest she’s ever spent with a single character. “I really feel in a manner she has this eternally affect on me,” says Steinfeld. “She is part of me.”

Steinfeld feels equally strongly about her Dickinson household: Toby Huss and Jane Krakowski, who play Emily’s mom and father, and Adrian Blake Enscoe as Emily’s older brother, in addition to Baryshnikov. “One of many first scenes we shot was all of us as a household within the Dickinson eating room across the desk,” she says. “I at all times suppose again to that second, as a result of that’s form of the place we constructed the muse for the present and {our relationships} on display. We began in that house, and we form of finish there.”

Earlier than the ultimate season wraps, although, Emily Dickinson should face two wars: the Civil Warfare, and one brewing between her feuding brother and father. She’s additionally wrestling internally with whether or not her writing—her life—has which means as younger males danger their very own lives on the battlefield. If that weren’t sufficient, Emily’s childhood greatest pal and one real love, Sue (Ella Hunt), can be having a child along with her husband, Emily’s elder brother. “I really feel it’s our most mature season but,” says Steinfeld.

It’s additionally Dickinson’s most expansive season, stretching past Emily’s hometown of Amherst, NY and into South Carolina. There, we’re launched to the Gullah-speaking, previously enslaved males who make up the first South Carolina Volunteers, one of many first federally licensed Black regiments of the Union military.

Regardless of the heavy material, season three of Dickinson by no means sacrifices its trendy sensibility or comedian lens. It’s filled with amusing cameos from stars like Ziwe as a reasonably youthful Sojourner Reality and Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman. It’s additionally extremely prescient, reflecting our present political divide because it observes the battle between the North and the South. Steinfeld says she’s “blown away” by Dickinson creator Alena Smith’s skill to create artwork in regards to the previous that speaks to our present cultural second. “It’s at all times had these uncanny parallels to the world during which we’re residing in at the moment, for higher or worse,” says Steinfeld. “It’s a reminder of how far we’ve come and the way a lot work there may be to be achieved.”

Whereas her work on Dickinson has come to an finish, Steinfeld reveals no indicators of slowing down. She’s buying and selling in corsets for superhero fits within the Marvel sequence Hawkeye, which hits Disney+ on November twenty fourth. The extremely under-wraps present casts Steinfeld reverse Jeremy Renner, whose Clint passes his superhero torch to Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop.

“Working with Jeremy was superior. He’s the good,” she says. The bond they fashioned mirrors the connection between their characters—however solely in sure points. “I walked into this expertise undoubtedly trying to him for that steering, like Kate is taking a look at Hawkeye. She’s able to be taught something she must be taught, go wherever she must go, and do something she must do. I confirmed up with an analogous mentality, and we acquired it achieved.”