I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.
I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.
On the one hand, I always get the young ingenue, pretty parts. But I don't think of myself that way because I was an ugly duckling when I was growing up. I have to be reminded when I play a part sometimes that I'm playing the pretty girl.
I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.
I was never an ingenue. I've traveled the globe, I've backpacked through South America, I've done conservation work in Africa. I was never the girl who knew nothing of the world.
In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.
To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion.
I played the ingenue, of course, when I was young - but even with those, I tried to make interesting choices and mess them up a little bit - make them layered and complicated and not all stereotypes.
I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.
I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
