Within a week, he’d asked Shane for my number, then he called me and asked if I wanted to participate in creating the show with Lodge Kerrigan, whom I’d only recently met. Steven Soderbergh had met Shane Carruth, then he saw his film “Upstream Color.” Shane suggested he also watch my film, “Sun Don’t Shine,” and he did – that night.

Variety: How did you get involved with “The Girlfriend Experience”? As she explains here, it was this film that inspired Soderbergh to pair her up with indie movie luminary Lodge Kerrigan for Starz’s 13-part series. But the Steven Soderbergh-produced series, a spin-off from his 2009 film of the same name, is primarily a showcase for Seimetz’s directing talents, as evidenced by her acclaimed 2012 feature “Sun Don’t Shine,” about a couple on a mysterious road trip. television and stars Riley Keough as a law student intern who leads a double life as a high-end escort. Seimetz also has a supporting role on the show, which is currently airing on U.S. TV series “ The Girlfriend Experience” as she is currently in Sydney, shooting a role in Ridley Scott’s highly-anticipated “Prometheus” sequel “Alien: Covenant.” PARIS - Until recently, Amy Seimetz was one of the indie world’s best-kept secrets, an actor, writer and director who is rarely recognized even by fans of her eclectic screen appearances, which include the 2010 survival horror “A Horrible Way To Die” and a key role in Shane Carruth’s 2013 trippy cult Sundance hit “Upstream Color.” Significantly, Seimetz was unable to attend the Paris premiere of her first major U.S.

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