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Her life would make a great movie...


I just saw her interview in Oprah in which she promoted her book Unbearable Lightness and it was so great (the material, not what happened to her). Being anorexic and gay. Feeling so insecure and scared all the time because she was trying to fulfill and maintain the image of this character she thought was acceptable to public. I mean, I think on some level everybody relates to that. I relate to that. It was dramatic and very sad. I think someone could adapt the book. I mean, it's already you know, structured. From the beginning when she was a kid, to when she made it in Hollywood with Ally McBeal and everything, to the climax when she had that intervention with her family in which her brother told her in tears that she would die, to the end when she finally met Ellen and is finally able to live a stable and healthy life that she deserves. It's the kind of Oscar-baity movie if it were to get made. It could snatch a Best Actress nod or something. I don't know if she should play herself, though.

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Yeah, the story of being anorexic and gay would make such a good movie.

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