I feel like I have so much else in my life too. When you're younger, you're so worried about being dismissed and being nothing because you sort of feel you are nothing. You kind of indulge, you think negative emotions are interesting, rather than just a bore. That whole thing has switched around for me. I don't find that interesting anymore.
Life's too short.
Golden Bowl follows the period piece Vatel , in which you had a doomed love. I had my child and took a couple of years off and decided I was going to be really, really strict and work only with excellent directors on really good scripts and do dramatic work. No gimmick movies for a while. I felt I wanted to get back to basics in some ways. The central contradiction in her character is she's a highly skilled, highly accomplished, manipulative, in-control woman who is also hopelessly, emotionally out of control.