Joanna Scanlan
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An actor or a nun.
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A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
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An astronaut, a writer, a dancer.
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A pop star: I loved music from a very young age.
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First something medical, then, without any doubt, an artist.
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View profile →Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
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.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”
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