"I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting — be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type."
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Film directors from the United StatesColumbia University alumniFeminists from the United StatesActresses from New York CityWomen born in the 1980s
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Vanity Fair, August 1998.
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