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tinpraActing Her Age
By Tom Gliatto
Claire Danes Mirrors the Pensive Teenager She Plays on My So-Called Life.
ONCE UPON A TIME, NETWORK television's notion of a 15-year-old American girl was Sally Field in the role of dimpled, happy-go-lucky Gidget. Today, in a more self-conscious, ironic age, you get Claire Danes. She's the remarkably self-possessed 15-year-old who stars in My So-Called Life, ABC's acclaimed new series about a confused, pensive 15-year-old who grapples so earnestly with the issues of schoolwork, hair, parents and boys that she seems on the verge of disenchantment before she ever reaches sweet 16.
"This character, Angela Chase, is going through a lot of the things I'm going through," says the husky-voiced Danes. "She's very different than I am, but the feelings she's feeling I've felt, so it's not that big a stretch." Danes, with quiet detachment, ticks off the emotional hallmarks of their respective adolescences: "Confusion, and taking life and yourself very seriously, being kind of curious, a little cynical, dealing with friends, dealing with who you are and who people see you as."
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By Tom Gliatto
Claire Danes Mirrors the Pensive Teenager She Plays on My So-Called Life.
ONCE UPON A TIME, NETWORK television's notion of a 15-year-old American girl was Sally Field in the role of dimpled, happy-go-lucky Gidget. Today, in a more self-conscious, ironic age, you get Claire Danes. She's the remarkably self-possessed 15-year-old who stars in My So-Called Life, ABC's acclaimed new series about a confused, pensive 15-year-old who grapples so earnestly with the issues of schoolwork, hair, parents and boys that she seems on the verge of disenchantment before she ever reaches sweet 16.
"This character, Angela Chase, is going through a lot of the things I'm going through," says the husky-voiced Danes. "She's very different than I am, but the feelings she's feeling I've felt, so it's not that big a stretch." Danes, with quiet detachment, ticks off the emotional hallmarks of their respective adolescences: "Confusion, and taking life and yourself very seriously, being kind of curious, a little cynical, dealing with friends, dealing with who you are and who people see you as."
(Read the rest at the People.com archives)