32-year-old actress Chloe Sevigny is the first one to admit that her acting career is a total accident. She’s not too sure where she was heading, "probably the fashion industry" when she was ‘discovered’ on the streets of New York - twice. In 1994, writer Jay McInerney noticed the hip teenager around town, admired her fashion sense, and crowned her the new ‘It’ girl in a seven-page magazine spread. A year later she caught the eye of voyeuristic photographer/director Larry Clark who cast her in the controversial teenage sex film Kids. While the film received mixed reviews, Sevigny’s moving performance as a naive teenager who contracts AIDS got her noticed. Since then the actress has continued to make daring, risky choices regardless of the consequences.
It paid off in films like Boys Don’t Cry, which earned her an Oscar nod at 25. Performing unsimulated fellatio on actor/director Vincent Gallo in Brown Bunny however brought Sevigny the kind of notoriety she could well do without. The film was canned and her agency immediately dropped her claiming she was ‘unmarketable’. The actress however remains unapologetic about her choices and despite the controversy her career survived. Woody Allen wanted her for Melinda & Melinda less than a year later and she’s had Lars Von Trier (Dogville, Manderlay), Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers) and David ‘Fight Club’ Fincher all lining up to work with her.
Gaynor Flynn caught up with the actress recently at the Cannes International Film Festival where she talked about her upcoming film Lying, that sex scene and shaking off the ‘indie’ tag.
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