Interview with Claire Danes
Posted: Sep 30th 2002, 4:36 pm
In a recent interview with the Philadelphia Daily News Claire Danes talks about her upcoming movie and her thoughts about "My So-Called Life":
Posted on Fri, Sep. 27, 2002
TATTLING WITH... ONE SO-CALLED CLAIRE DANES
You probably know Claire Danes from her role as Angela Chase in the short lived, but influential TV high school drama, "My So-Called Life." After appearing in films like "Little Women" and "Romeo + Juliet," Danes took a break to study at Yale, where she majors in English. She'll appear in next year's "Terminator 3" but returned to acting in "Igby Goes Down," now in theaters, as Sookie Sapperstein, a Bennington student in a bizarre love triangle with two brothers.
The Daily News caught up with a very friendly Danes, by phone from MGM Studios in Hollywood.
Q: How's Yale? Had you been turning down film offers before "Igby"?
Danes:I had been getting a few offers but I wanted to concentrate on my studies. Three years had lapsed where I hadn't worked and I wanted to return to acting for a while. That's what I'm doing, and inevitably I'll go back and want to return to school.
Q: Do Yale dudes try hitting on you and pretend they don't know who you are?
Danes:I'm pretty naive and gullible in a lot of ways. Maybe intentionally. I'm not interested in my celebrity so I'm not too concerned with other people's interest in it.
Q: What was filming "Terminator" like? Did you touch Arnold's muscles?
Danes:Pretty wild. I was overwhelmed by the experience because I've never worked in this kind of genre before. I felt disoriented, but I got to spend the summer with Arnold. Nick Stahl was in it and he was great. There was quite a calm, relaxed atmosphere. I thought it would be testosterone ridden and explosions everywhere.
Q: You're probably most associated with "My So-Called Life." Do you feel like that show has had the same kind of impact on kids as "The Breakfast
Club" and all those John Hughes movies?
Danes:It's the most impactful thing I've ever done. It was a really intense experience for me. I was a miserable teen-ager and I felt kinda rescued by the show because all of my feelings were validated, confirmed, and allowed to exist. It was very cathartic in a lot of ways. That was not just masturbatory exercise. People were influenced by it and I was really honored by it. Molly Ringwald was a God to me. I was conscious to that parallel. The writing, directing was great and I'm still good friends with a lot of the cast.
Q: So in real life, would you go for Jordan Catalano or Brian Krakow?
Danes:I think Jordan first, Brian second. You go for the hottie and then you realize that there's more to love.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/4161454.htm
Posted on Fri, Sep. 27, 2002
TATTLING WITH... ONE SO-CALLED CLAIRE DANES
You probably know Claire Danes from her role as Angela Chase in the short lived, but influential TV high school drama, "My So-Called Life." After appearing in films like "Little Women" and "Romeo + Juliet," Danes took a break to study at Yale, where she majors in English. She'll appear in next year's "Terminator 3" but returned to acting in "Igby Goes Down," now in theaters, as Sookie Sapperstein, a Bennington student in a bizarre love triangle with two brothers.
The Daily News caught up with a very friendly Danes, by phone from MGM Studios in Hollywood.
Q: How's Yale? Had you been turning down film offers before "Igby"?
Danes:I had been getting a few offers but I wanted to concentrate on my studies. Three years had lapsed where I hadn't worked and I wanted to return to acting for a while. That's what I'm doing, and inevitably I'll go back and want to return to school.
Q: Do Yale dudes try hitting on you and pretend they don't know who you are?
Danes:I'm pretty naive and gullible in a lot of ways. Maybe intentionally. I'm not interested in my celebrity so I'm not too concerned with other people's interest in it.
Q: What was filming "Terminator" like? Did you touch Arnold's muscles?
Danes:Pretty wild. I was overwhelmed by the experience because I've never worked in this kind of genre before. I felt disoriented, but I got to spend the summer with Arnold. Nick Stahl was in it and he was great. There was quite a calm, relaxed atmosphere. I thought it would be testosterone ridden and explosions everywhere.
Q: You're probably most associated with "My So-Called Life." Do you feel like that show has had the same kind of impact on kids as "The Breakfast
Club" and all those John Hughes movies?
Danes:It's the most impactful thing I've ever done. It was a really intense experience for me. I was a miserable teen-ager and I felt kinda rescued by the show because all of my feelings were validated, confirmed, and allowed to exist. It was very cathartic in a lot of ways. That was not just masturbatory exercise. People were influenced by it and I was really honored by it. Molly Ringwald was a God to me. I was conscious to that parallel. The writing, directing was great and I'm still good friends with a lot of the cast.
Q: So in real life, would you go for Jordan Catalano or Brian Krakow?
Danes:I think Jordan first, Brian second. You go for the hottie and then you realize that there's more to love.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/4161454.htm
