Vermont native and actor Hadley Robinson, who has performed in films including “Little Women” and “Anyone But You,” returns to the screen with the Sept. 12 release of “The History of Sound.”
Due to receive a limited release in theaters, “The History of Sound” stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor as two men, Lionel and David, who fall in love while traveling through rural Maine to collect recordings of folk songs. The film, set in the World War I period and based on a story by Ben Shattuck, is not listed on any Burlington-area theater’s coming soon webpages.
Vermont native Hadley Robinson stars as Joyce Simdars in director George Clooney’s film “The Boys in the Boat.”
The movie premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or prize. A May critique of the Cannes screening from the British Film Institute called “The History of Sound” a “sensitive but excessively decorous film” and saved its highest praise for Robinson’s supporting role as David’s wife, Belle.
“Hadley Robinson gives the film’s most striking performance,” according to the review by Jonathan Romney. “Her nuanced reticence, with its finely controlled notes of upset, jealousy, possibly distaste, perfectly captures the tone of the film’s own reserve.”
Robinson had a particularly high-profile moment at the end of 2023 with the release of two films that featured her in prominent supporting roles: the Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell romcom hit “Anyone But You” and the George Clooney-directed “The Boys in the Boat,” in which Robinson portrayed the wife of a rower on an upstart Olympic-contending squad.
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor star in the the film “The History of Sound” that also features Vermont native Hadley Robinson.
Robinson, who grew up outside Middlebury, told the Burlington Free Press in a conversation in 2023 that Vermont helped spur her interest in acting. She mentioned a performance in a Middlebury Community Players production in 2010 that gave her a push toward what’s now her career.
“That was one of the first big roles I had,” Robinson said of her performance in the Ron Powers play “Sam and Laura.”
“I remember really having a sense of community in an ensemble and being so happy.”
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