On “Succession,” Dagmara Dominczyk plays a poker-faced PR exec who is “super corporate and doesn’t let an ounce of emotion out,” she said. “Blazered, buttoned up and there to do a job.” Whereas in the Netflix film “The Lost Daughter,” from writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dominczyk embodies the complete opposite as a pushy mother-to-be: “She’s the kind of person who’s like, ‘Make yourself comfortable — and let me show you just how comfortable you should be and where you should sit and what you should eat.’ She’s larger than life and wants to put herself into everybody’s business and it was enticing to play someone like that.”
Dominczyk, who is married to fellow actor Patrick Wilson, will also star in “We Own This City,” about corruption in the Baltimore police department, out later this year on HBO from the creators of “The Wire.”
Amid her many career high points, when asked about a worst moment in her career, she recalled a memory that was “embarrassing but also really frightening. And it happened on stage.”
