. “The scale and size of everything was daunting,” says Boynton about working with the Murphy “family,” which on this project includes Jessica Lange and Gwyneth Paltrow. “It’s very much like a first-day-of-school feeling.”
A self-described homebody, Boynton is most at ease sinking into her domestic cocoon with a good book. The last one she read was Truman Capote’s, the story of an orphaned boy and two elderly women who observe life from a tree; other titles currently on her queue are Simon Van Booy’s, and volumes by the perennially spooky storyteller Shirley Jackson. But Boynton’s ravenous appetite for codex doesn’t detract from her screen time.