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I can really feel it. Jersey embodies what everyone is feeling: (It's) close to where everything is happening but not there. There's a real feeling in those regions of comfort. They're not ka-jillionaires but they have every comfort and opportunity open to them. As a young person, as spoiled and snotty as it sounds, that's really scary to have every choice open to you. It's this funny state of having everything and because you have everything, knowing nothing.
Is that your experience?
Absolutely. I'm the luckiest girl in the world. When you have some sort of struggle or come up against some obstacle, it makes you stronger. It's hard to have identity and direction and purpose when it's all easy. Most of my friends have an external discipline: a job. I do obviously work, but it's for three months at a time. Then I'm like, 'I don't know what I'm doing.' So I started taking classes and feeling productive. I'm learning Spanish and taking ballet and working on producing things.
Are you uncomfortable being a sex symbol?
I don't consider myself a sex symbol. Sex is so much the combination of soul and mind and body that it's such a weird thing to be a sex symbol in our movie culture.
Now that you're getting older, how do you feel about doing nudity in films?
I wouldn't say "no, never," because I think setting any limits is silly. There might be a day when you change. It's much better to flow with the time and the context, see how things change and see how you feel. I also try to value my private life over my acting life, as fulfilling as it can be to work on something and give your all. If you do anything that jeopardizes your privacy or your safety, it's not worth it in my book.
