It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit.
It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit.
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
They think the worst is over, but we have plenty to go. We have disease and the inability to get sustenance to them food and water and they have no sanitary facilities. They have to get out.
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
Two movies with a combined budget of under a million bucks is like yahoo
My major was liberal arts, but I studied a lot of theater, Fordham had an amazing theater program - really comprehensive.
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
I saw the Hyatt for the first time yesterday and I can't believe anyone who was in that building is alive. But I must say, I am glad to be home with my family and I am fortunate that they are all fine and well.
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
I was never girlish. My sense of humor was never quite the fit. My voice was never high enough. I was never sexy in that way.
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
It's like going to someone's country home in the middle of the city.
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been driven by the need to work on a great script.
I'd say the majority of the films I go see are art films, but I sometimes like to see big-budget pictures.
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
I've always wanted to be leading ladycharacter actress.
Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
Maybe I have a certain amount of smarts to say yes because I don't care if I'm not going to make any money because I love the part.
But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day.
I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
I am going out with some of those search-and-rescues today,
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Any further recognition is great because it always brings attention to the films and I just want people to see the movies.
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
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