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 I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game-the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about
myself.
Goddamn!
I love playing roles like that! If it's got accents and costumes and all
that, I'm there. To play some straight-up girl, some Midwestern
character with no point of view whose only goal is to get her guy back
by the end of the movie--that would bore the shit out of me.
I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff.
That's
the best compliment I could have gotten, ever. With a character like
Gina, who has such a heavy New York accent, it could easily turn into a
caricature, but I've always worked against that. The Sopranos is
dramatic, but when I was playing Adriana, she was funny in terms of her
accent, in the way she handled herself, and her wardrobe and all that. I
play Gina the same way.
I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.
Shooter
was introduced to me by a friend-nothing exciting. [Shooter complains in
the background. To Shooter] You are exciting, but how you and I met
wasn't that exciting. Meeting you was the best thing ever, little angel
face.
I
would wear suits every day to work, with skintight pencil skirts down to
the knee--kind of like how Kim Basinger dressed in 9 1/2 Weeks [1986],
but with a tie.
I
had so much crying to do for The Sopranos, and certain songs that remind
me of certain people or times in my life really helped. One that makes
me cry is "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" by the Velvet Underground, and
"Loving Cup" by the Rolling Stones, and anything by Neil
Young. This year, one of the songs that got me to cry every time is
called "Please Carry Me Home." You're gonna laugh, but it's
off the Passion of the Christ soundtrack.
I'm
a workaholic, and I have a lot of projects. We have a company where we
find new writers and develop their scripts [Great Dane Productions]. I
have Filthmart, a clothing company and store I do with my ex-boyfriend.
I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I
should have just become a manager.
She
had a story that was 40 minutes long, but basically she just wanted
money. We gave her some and then got nervous she was going to follow us,
so we just decided to get the hell out of Arkansas.
Well,
my boyfriend, Shooter [Jennings, son of the late Waylon Jennings], and
his mother [singer Jessi Colter]. It's one of the most amazing songs. It
doesn't relate necessarily to religion, in my mind.
I'm at a gas station in Oklahoma City. I'm with my boyfriend and my crazy Italian parents. We're driving cross-country in a giant RV because I have to start working on Joey.
I
took that as being really, really sad. This poor girl is not really a
hairdresser; she's just hanging on, and it happens to be funny, just
like Adriana. She's got the balls of an ox. What's great about the Joey
writers--and it's many of the same writers from Friends--is that they
try to keep it as human as possible, not just one joke after another. I
like real problems, the human condition--twisted, darker stuff. People
loved Adriana and people love Joey, so who else should be together on a
show, really? Adriana, in my mind, was a lot like Joey: vulnerable,
open, and clueless.
We stopped at a motel in Arkansas last night and got panhandled so badly by some crazy white-trash lady with two teeth. She had a story that was 40 minutes long, but basically she just wanted money.
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