To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.
I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

