Chloe Sevigny has been gracing the pages of glossy magazines for almost 20 years now, when she was first featured in The New Yorker – before she’d even begun her acting career. Since then she’s not only become a respected actress but something of a fashion darling too. She caught up with Psychologies magazine to talk about growing up in Connecticut...
Speaking about going to school, Sevigny says: “I didn’t enjoy it. The kids were very preppy. Standing out was not cool. I thought I was cool. I would come into the city [New York], and I was influence by my older brother. I blame him for all my eccentricities.”
It seems that moving to New York after leaving school was the best thing for her as, even now, she’s not a big fan of going back home. “I don’t really enjoy going home. I get despondent and weird. My Mum is always like, ‘Why are you so serious?’ but I’m only serious when I go there.”
Having appeared in many Indie roles such as Boys Don’t Cry and The Brown Bunny, Sevigny has recently just finished her last series of Big Love after 5 years and she’s about to appear in Hit and Miss on Sky Atlantic as a trans-gender hit woman.
Hit and Miss was filmed in Manchester and what did she make of the city? “I thought it would be less… I’m trying to think of how to say it in a nice way,” she says. “It’s very mainstream. What is it they call the girls – chavs? They all go out wearing their huge fake Louboutins hoping to bag a footballer. There weren’t places to go where I could find kindred spirits. I’d go to the pubs, but people were very closed off.”
To read the rest of her interview check out the June issue of Psychologies magazine.
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Posted by Hannah Wood.
