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Claire Danes Says Winnie Holzman’s My So-Called Life ‘Rescued Me’ as She Reflects on Filming the Drama at 13

Claire Danes described her time starring in ‘My So-Called Life’ as the ‘perfect’ diary entries as she reflected on how the drama written by Winnie Holzman ‘rescued her’ from the realities of high school.

The actress, 45, reflected on starring in the '90s teen drama as she gave a speech at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts annual gala on Monday, April 7. “The very fact that we spent an hour every week peeking out at the world from the sensitive, probing eyes of a freshman girl at a public high school in Pittsburgh is in itself revolutionary,” she said. The actress added that "it's really an astonishing thing" that the show was the first to "feature an explicitly gay character.” She said, “The network wasn't psyched about Ricky applying eyeliner in the girls' bathroom with Rayanne, but Winnie won them over.

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