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Jeffrey Overstreet

30 Apr 2005
Filed under: On Movies & Media • Quotable • Jennifer Jason Leigh

Via Movie City News, Jennifer Jason Leigh:

"In mainstream movies the woman’s role is mostly just to prove that the leading man is heterosexual. I’m not good at that, and I’m not interested in that.”
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