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‘It definitely got me a seat in therapy’: Diane Lane on child stardom, sleazy execs and thriving in her 50s

She was on the cover of Time magazine in her teens, and decades later the acclaimed actor is having another big moment. She discusses Feud, A Man in Full and the highs and lows of Hollywood

As well as Feud, she is in a new Netflix series, A Man in Full, playing Martha, the ex-wife of Charlie Croker (Jeff Daniels), a real estate mogul facing bankruptcy. The experiences that I had were extraordinary and multicultural and filled with creative hearts, and intense experimentation and freedom.” She bought a pet tortoise on the streets of Paris, had it blessed at the Notre Dame Cathedral, and wore it around her neck in a pouch crocheted by one of the other actors (again, it was the 70s). At 12, she was performing in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in New York with Meryl Streep, then at 14, her film debut, A Little Romance, with Olivier came out; about adolescent love, Lane played an American in Paris who meets a French boy.

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