Gerwig: The American Kate Winslet
(Marie Claire, April 2011)
Downtown darling Greta Gerwig, 27, cements her status as the new It chick in the big-budget remake of Arthur. Here, she rocks the MC questionnaire.
MC: What’s your best feature?
GG: My smile. Not because it’s so beautiful, but because it’s genuine. I have trouble fake smiling.
MC: Best attribute?
GG: My ability to be in the moment — which is also my worst attribute. I have trouble making plans.
MC: What’s your hidden talent?
GG: I’m a really great bridge player. My dad taught all three of his kids.
MC: What’s one thing most people don’t know about you?
GG: I’m not, nor have I ever been, cool. That idea is out there because I’ve done so many indie films. But I’m much more of a musical-theater kid — I know every word to Starlight Express and Cats.
MC: I can’t go to sleep unless I’ve…
GG: I’ve written some thing that day, even just a page of drivel. I feel like if some thing hasn’t been recorded I haven’t really lived that day.
MC: Most regrettable fashion moment?
GG: At the 2010Berlin International Film Festival. I didn’t know I could tell hair & makeup people “no.” They made me look 45 years old and I’d walked off the set of Designing Women. I did press looking like Delta Burke. My mother thought I looked amazing.
— Thelma Adams
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