I Was 11 When I First Said

Pedro Almodóvar Asked Me To Watch Italian Films Again As Homework To Look At The Energy Of All Those Women From The Italian Neo-realist Films. A Lot Of Them Had Those Characters That Represented Motherhood. For Some Reason, In The '50s In Italy, The Mother Figure Was Very Important - And My Character Needed To Have That Energy.

Sometimes I Feel We Express More With Dancing Or Acting Or Painting Than With Words.

It Feels Great And It's Very Beautiful When You Can Bring Someone Of Your Own Nationality Into A Story, Where Even The Historic Element Of It Is Important. I Loved That I Could Use My Own Accent For The Character.

I Was 11 When I First Said I Wanted To Become An Actress, And Everyone Looked At Me As If I Had Said I Wanted To Go To The Moon.

I Love New York, But Being There The Whole Year, It Gets A Little Crazy With The Speed And Rhythm Of Things.