What's in the way? To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting. Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all. I don't see myself as having to compete with younger actresses; I don't feel that. I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.
I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me. I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell. I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule.
Believe me, it is. I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me. I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed. Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context.
That is important. Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it. I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that. If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention. If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.
My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share. My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary. My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked. When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them", so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise. I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way. I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be I've always been pretty levelheaded.
In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability. Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?
Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well.
A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there. We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too.
I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed. I didn't do a movie until I was almost I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about.
I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff. I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like "Okay, no more pretending.
My character in Running with Scissors is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness. It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or television - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family. Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them.
Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits. My sister and I fought a lot when we were kids. I was the little bratty sister, and she would kind of walk away, not wanting to be associated with me. I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. Her parents, residents of Iowa, were preparing Episcopalians and conservative Republicans.
She is of essentially German and English descent. The youngest of four children has an older sister Jane, and two older brothers Bradley and Byron. The family traveled to Wichita, Kansas, in , where she used her early childhood. In , her father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She started acting in junior high school, operating the lead in The Sound of Music. She graduated in from Patrick Henry High School, where she studied drama.
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