‘Ozark’ Actress Sofia Hublitz Responds To Ruth’s Impression Of Charlotte

Ozark’s final episodes (season four, part two) began streaming on Netflix
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Friday. In the first episode of the last batch, Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner) does a memorable impression of Charlotte Byrde (Sofia Hublitz) while making a phone call and pretending to be the daughter of Marty and Wendy Byrde.

“I remember Julia called me that day when she was at work. She was in her trailer. I don’t think I was there but she called me and she was like, ‘Okay, so you’re going to laugh really hard,’” Hublitz recalled.

“She’s like, ‘It’s not me, Julia, making fun of you, Sofia, but there’s that scene where I have to say, This is Charlotte Byrde. We were laughing about it so much, but it’s not because of you, because it’s funny, because it’s Ruth, not me, Julia.’

“It’s funny because we all kind of had a laugh about that for a few days after she shot that. I mean, I don’t have the most melodic voice, so I think she did a pretty good job.”

Interestingly enough, Hublitz had also auditioned for Ruth before being cast as Charlotte ahead of the show’s launch in July of 2017.

“There was one callback, and it was a producer callback, it was with Patrick Markey, Chris Mundy, and Jason (Bateman) were all in the room, and Alexa Fogel, our casting director. They had me reading for Ruth at the time, Ruth and Charlotte funny enough, just for the initial round of auditions.

“In my first audition just with Alexa and her office, they asked all the other kids, I guess, who were auditioning for Charlotte or Jonah, ‘What’re your plans for this summer? What’re you doing?’ And my answer at the time was, ‘I’m going to Europe to visit my family that lives there.’ In the callback, we did the scenes. … We were making small talk [after], the five of us, I guess.

“Jason didn’t really say much. But then he said, ‘Are you the one that’s going to Europe this summer with your family?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, that’s me. That’s what I’m doing.’ He said, ‘Well, you should cancel those plans.’ So pretty sweet story I think.

“I guess I was told in the room but then in the days following I’m like, ‘Well, I can’t just take this at face value, can I?’ I mean, I should’ve because a couple of days later, I got the call.”