Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”
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Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”
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Accidentally walking on to set naked for a scene where I wasn’t actually supposed to be naked.
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
I worked with Stephen Fry recently and we had a real heart-to-heart. I asked: “What was it like being in prison for being gay?” And thank God someone came in and he didn’t hear me say it. I was mixing him up with when he played Oscar Wilde. I could picture him in his cell.
I’ve shat myself in public three times. It’s never quite as bad as you fear.
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
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