“Hey, Mabel, do you want some chicken?”

Zoey Deutch calls for her adorable dog during our Zoom meeting, days before the New York Film Festival premiere of her latest movie, Nouvelle Vague . “She is the love of my life,” the instantly disarming Deutch says about her mutt, while trying to show me a tattoo of Mabel’s face that she got on her ankle when she was 20. “This tattoo was an interesting choice, but I don’t regret it. I rescued her 11 years ago. I absolutely cannot live without dogs.”

Deutch’s organic on-camera warmth is hardly a surprise for anyone who’s followed her career since the 2010s and witnessed her bouncy charm light up a screen. Her major breakthrough came with Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! in 2016, the filmmaker’s signature loose-limbed rhythms elevated

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