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— ELLEN BARKIN , ACTRESS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY CEDRIC BUCHET
I don’t want to be a mentor in my bedroom. I don’t want to sit at dinner with someone and explain who Martin Amis or Philip Roth are—I just don’t.
When I was young I was interested in learning and growing and so I was very much drawn to older men who were smarter than me. Sometimes they were quite substantially older than me…like my professor in college.
When I was young, I based my [acting] choices around playing fringe, undervalued women. You know, working class single mothers, the woman whose husband didn’t love her because she wasn’t pretty enough. Now, I’m not playing some 60-year-old sad sack because that’s not how I feel and, by the way, that’s not how the girls I know feel.
I think as you get older you become, hopefully, much more familiar with your own sexuality. I was always very comfortable with my sexuality. Even as a young girl when I felt very unattractive, I never felt unattractive in bed. It’s a weird contradiction.
It’s like ignoring antibiotics. There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. And, you know, what? Use it.
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