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The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.
Melanie Lynskey
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Melanie Lynskey
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: May 16
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Melanie Jayne Lynskey
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For The Intervention I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, No. And I was like, I don't care.
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I guess I have a strong constitution.
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Some scripts are pretty sparse.
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Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.
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I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
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I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
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I felt like the script [of I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore] was so clear. It was sort of packed full of information. [Macon Blair] puts in a lot of discussion in the script. Characters are introduced very thoughtfully. The way he described walking into particular environments was very specific.
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I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.
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The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.
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I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.
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I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.
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I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.
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Even though it's still, annoyingly, something everybody feels the need to bring up to anybody who doesn't look like a model, there are more women now who are super successful and have different body types. You know, like men do. That feels like progress to me.
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