I never thought of myself as a child actor. I knew I was a kid, but they weren`t related. There was nothing I could do about being a kid, and meanwhile I was an actress, and I had something to say in my acting.
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn`t work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that res...