What, she didn't want to play Rachel ... the title role?!
"Not to sound just like a 'b.s.' actor, but I knew the part of Kym was right, just knew like when I read Brokeback Mountain. I just got her … her whole emotional make up was so logically laid out. That really appeals to me. Once I understand something, I understand it for life."
What is it, exactly that she understood?
"There’s a saying in recovery that you stop emotionally maturing when you start using. So Kym started when she was around 12 or 13, and she’s not very advanced in how she handles stress and anxiety. But I think her soul is very evolved and very mature ... There is this girl who is struggling so much at the fine points in life, who is getting so many things right but never gets credit for it because of this horrible baggage that she has that she will have forever -- so long as she has a family."
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