In ‘I’m Your Woman,’ Rachel Brosnahan Runs and Guns with a Baby on Her Hip

The “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel“ star leads her first feature and helps tell a story usually never seen onscreen. When Rachel Brosnahan first read the script for “I’m Your Woman” (Amazon Studios), a ’70s-inflected crime thriller inspired by Tuesday Weld’s character in Michael Mann’s 1981 “Thief,” she was alone in a hotel room. She responded to the way co-writer-director Julia Hart (“Fast Color”) and co-writer-producer Jordan Horowitz (“La La Land”) gave the genre a feminist twist, a shift in perspective. Even after her breakout success on “House of Cards” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Brosnahan doesn’t get scripts like this, she said in our Zoom call, above. “I’m not seeing the kind of three-dimensional, bold, and dynamic women I want to play,” she said. “This script leapt off the page.” It’s a story about motherhood, for one thing. After thief Eddie (Bill Heck) drops an infant in the arms of his sad suburban housewife Jean, she brightens up. But then he suddenly takes off, leavin