It is the latest in a string of enviably layered characters for the Vancouver native, including her Emmy-nominated breakout turn as aspiring actor Sally Reed on the HBO contract killer dramedy \u201cBarry\u201d<\/a> and the coolly calculating portfolio manager Petra Koenig on the network\u2019s drama \u201cIndustry.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m definitely learning some large tech and finance words that I didn\u2019t know,\u201d she says with a laugh about her recent wealth-adjacent roles on a Zoom from London, where she makes her home. \u201cI\u2019m not sure if I\u2019ll retain them.\u201d<\/p>\n Given the accolades, it seems likely Goldberg only needs to memorize her lines and the rest will follow.<\/p>\n While she has given a distinctive performance in each of her roles, one of several threads tying the characters together is a moment when fear, rage, excitement, ambition or all of the above collide but must be contained. While that discipline sometimes devolves into delicious displays of apoplexy \u2014 witness Goldberg\u2019s incredible, expletive-littered elevator meltdown in \u201cBarry\u201d \u2014 the 40-year-old actor is more often the face of diplomacy while telegraphing cortisol levels in the red beneath her placid exterior.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a blond Canadian, I really ran the risk of being the girl next door,\u201d she says of her attempt to dodge typecasting onscreen after cutting her teeth onstage in London and New York in the mid-2010s. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be the girl next door \u2026 maybe the girl next door with bodies in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n While the only bodies to be found in JoAnne\u2019s basement on \u201cThe Audacity\u201d are her eavesdropping son and his friends, the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) graduate has accomplished the mission of subverting what might have been a perky ingenue image with the role. (One she will continue, since the series has already gotten a Season 2 order.)<\/p>\n When the ethically challenged therapist starts dabbling in insider trading thanks to info gleaned from her patients \u2014 including bold tech names Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen) and Carl Bardolph (Zach Galifianakis) \u2014 the slippery slope awaits.<\/p>\n Goldberg with \u201cThe Audacity\u201d co-star Billy Magnussen.<\/p>\n (Ed Araquel \/ AMC)<\/p>\n \u201cI think that she started her career with a desire to help people and somewhere along the line she\u2019s become incredibly jaded and she\u2019s exhausted by being the most intelligent person in the room and yet having no material wealth to show for it,\u201d says Goldberg of her character, whose struggles extend to motherhood of son Orson (Everett Blunck) and marriage to child psychologist Gary (Paul Adelstein).<\/p>\n It does not help that JoAnne is surrounded by people who have no trouble sliding headfirst down the slope as if it were an Aspen trail.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s working with people who have so many houses that if one burns down, it doesn\u2019t matter, and yet she\u2019s struggling to keep the roof over her own head. So somewhere along the line she starts making these little contracts with herself thinking, \u2018In this sea of moral bankruptcy, is my tiny little transgression really so bad? Or is it even justified?\u2019 But these little small pacts start to snowball. You can see somebody torn between their better judgment, their core instinct, their humanity, and someone who is so frustrated that they\u2019re stepping toward a kind of nihilism.\u201d<\/p>\n That sense of inner conflict appeals to Goldberg, who says she knew instantly that she had to play JoAnne when she read the script by showrunner Jonathan Glatzer. \u201cIt\u2019s rare for me to go out and be like, \u2018I have to play this role!\u2019\u201d she says, adding with a laugh, \u201cI can be quite passive. I can be quite Canadian in the American market. I felt like he\u2019d found this incredible line of satire with pathos, which is my favorite kind of style.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m always interested in playing characters on the precipice of losing their moral compass and which way they decide to go,\u201d she continues. \u201cAnd if JoAnne has anything in common with Sally from \u2018Barry,\u2019 because they\u2019re such different characters, it\u2019s that. \u2026 I love that Jonathan\u2019s given JoAnne very mundane relatable problems in a world where the scale is so off and there\u2019s a lot that the average person can\u2019t relate to in that bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n Goldberg has also been busy creating her own bubble, writing, producing and starring in the Canadian-Irish series \u201cSisters\u201d \u2014 which just concluded its second season on AMC \u2014 with Irish actor Susan Stanley, her best friend since their LAMDA days. The odd couple sibling comedy finds Goldberg playing Sare, a buttoned-down Canadian who goes to Ireland to find her long-lost biological father (Donal Logue) and discovers shambolic half-sister Suze (Stanley).<\/p>\n \u201cI was pretty shocked at how hard it is to get something made,\u201d she says of the series\u2019 six-year journey to screen. \u201cAnd then to be in a leadership position where you\u2019re inviting everyone to dinner and you\u2019ve got to make sure there are three courses and being responsible for everybody\u2019s well-being \u2014 it was wildly challenging, but absolutely thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n While she prepares to return to JoAnne\u2019s world in Palo Alto \u2014 her hometown of Vancouver serving as a double \u2014 Goldberg feels very fortunate about where she\u2019s landed.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been so lucky at this stage in my career to work on scripts that I feel are really saying something and characters that I feel are morally complex and also to be in the business at a time where female characters are more complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few people do simmering panic as nimbly as Sarah Goldberg. 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