What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
From Ellen Burstyn
I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
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