So much more Chase

One Battle After Another was (most of) our introduction to Chase Infiniti, the film’s breakout star. It was a huge opportunity for her – her first movie, a Paul Thomas Anderson project no less, alongside multiple Oscar winners, that would go on to win the Best Picture Oscar.

For over six months, Chase was front-and-center during award season, on virtually every award show red carpet, invited to fashion shows and talk shows, and now that award season and the Oscars are over, where does the momentum go?

Don’t worry about Chase, she’s good. She’s the lead in The Testaments, based on Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, releasing on Disney+ on April 10. Chase plays Agnes aka Hannah, June’s daughter. She worked on The Testaments after wrapping on OBAA, and some of the production team knew about PTA’s film but of course had yet to see it because Testaments shooting happened before OBAA opened, but they saw what PTA saw when he cast her: a star who was about to make a meteoric ascent.

Her involvement now in The Testaments is a major boost to the series which also stars Ann Dowd who returns as Aunt Lydia and Lucy Halliday who plays Daisy. All of them were at the premiere in LA last night, where Chase continued her run of crazy amazing red carpet looks. She’s worn a lot of custom Louis Vuitton over the last few months, and here’s another. It is exquisite – not many people can make a tutu the colour of a manila envelope work but that’s Chase Infiniti.

@hollywoodreporter #ChaseInfiniti wows at the L.A. premiere of #TheTestaments ♬ original sound - The Hollywood Reporter

I’ve screened one episode of The Testaments and can confirm that One Battle After Another is not a one-off; Chase has it, and her momentum won’t be slowing any time soon. She has another project in post-production: The Julia Set, a film about a math genius who competes in math tournaments, co-starring Christopher Briney, Gillian Anderson, and Jason Isaacs. The comparisons here are Good Will Hunting mashed up with The Queen’s Gambit. So she’s gone from karate and revolutions to female oppression to straight up nerd in the space of a year and a half. All of them interesting choices to showcase her seemingly limitless potential.