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‘I stopped talking to my parents – and life opened up’: Heather Graham on family, ageing and ‘creepy’ film-makers

The actor has seen the best and worst of Hollywood, from directors like Paul Thomas Anderson to the notorious Harvey Weinstein. She talks about her #MeToo moment, her difficult childhood and her new movie, Chosen Family

In the film, Ann’s family, especially her religious father, are disapproving of her relationships and expect her to look after her younger sister Clio (played by Julia Stiles), who has a drug addiction. The family lived in Agoura Hills, in the Santa Monica mountains north of Los Angeles, and Graham says she was shy and nerdy, but could come out of herself when dressing up and in school plays. Photograph: United Archives GmbH/AlamyShe watched the #MeToo movement unfold with a sense of justice restored, and wrote about her own experience with Weinstein ( who is now being retried in New York for rape – which he denies – after his 2020 conviction was overturned.

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