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you're not supposed to speak ill of the
dead but Earl Blackwell finally died and
I was on his Blacklist every year for
being the worst dressed person oh is he
some sort of like Society columnist or
something list every year is the worst
dressed people in America I was right
and WR
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anyway the thing that was relentless for
me here was how you look I just can't I
couldn't put up with it I mean it just
drove me crazy but you chose a whole
career that is pretty concerned with
that stuff it wasn't the career I chose
the career I chose was a drama major in
college where at Yale when I was I me I
played a 90-year-old woman you know one
of my most celebrated
roles and then I played a really fat
person and I played a lot of different
things and and that's how I thought I
loved to Wrangle my what my talent my
need to express myself I like to do it
that way I never thought I was somebody
that would be on the cover of magazines
in
fashions wearing
fashion you know just like not not me
but that is what movie stardom
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entails I always wore my own clothes a
lot of the time in interviews in the
marketing of the movie I could you know
are these your own cloes actually this
is not these are mine these shoes are
mine but I missed I got famous before
before you had to do all this stuff I
went up for King Kong I remember that
that would have
been
part Dino
Dees he was sitting there he meeting all
these girls and I came in and I had
really tried to look nice his son was
sitting in the room and Dino spoke to
him in Italian I know Italian studied it
mhm so he said why do you send me this
pig the woman she's so ugly that you
know oh no so I looked at him and I
said what that I said I'm very sorry
that I disappoint you but Jesus Christ
because they're so used to treating
girls like bimos you of course he would
never imagine that a blonde person would
speak
to
I found my knitting bag just last week
and in it was
a half finished sweater for a boyfriend
long gone and the knitting book the
knitting pattern which was in women's
day magazine
1967 and I looked through this magazine
and I I just I couldn't believe it I
showed it to my daughters and they were
screaming because second page
big great big ad join the only
profession where you can make as much as
a man be an accountant yeah there was a
column called what men say about women
and the worst thing that a man can do to
a woman is to let her get on top they
ask us in so many different ways not to
let them and if we don't they're happier
and we're oh God just just a really
different world it's hard to explain
that
people you know sometimes you you look
out the window you look at all the
windows think inside every single one of
them is somebody with some huge weird
terrible problem some great
jokes there's a lot of lives worth
embodying I mean it's very exhilarating
to step into somebody else's shoes it's
very humbling to imagine else's really
life and their
pain it's my
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drug well I mean I have so much doubt
I'm an actor but you're connecting with
people so much right now you know that's
a great thing because I have a lot to
say about the world clearly yeah and uh
I can only I can't put together as you
can see a clear sentence about it all
but through the work I can say what I
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think