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I Play The Guitar. This Year At The Sundance Film Festival, I Joined The Band From 'the Guitar' On Stage. We Warmed Up For Patti Smith, And Then The Director Michel Gondry Got On The Drums To Play Some Songs From The Soundtrack To His Film Be Kind Rewind With Mos Def. It Was Pretty Mad.

It Helps Being From Somewhere Other Than Hollywood, Not Having Grown Up With That Sense Of Film-making. I Really Wasn't Exposed To That As A Young Woman.

My Parents Were Political, So It's Definitely In My Bones. Wherever I Am, I Always Seem To Get Involved With Politics. I Think, Once It's In Your Bloodstream, It's Always There. I Love It.

I Was Picked Up On A London Street By A Model Agent. She Took Me To Her Office And Then Sent Me To Paris To Work In Shows. It Was Supposed To Be Two Weeks, But I Ended Up Living There With My Zimbabwean Boyfriend. I Made Enough Money Modeling And Acting In French Movies To Buy A Nice Flat.

In Orthodox Film-making, You Never Shoot Sequentially - But With Improv, Obviously Every Move You Make Has A Knock-on Effect; It Is A Cumulative Process. I Have Improvised, On The Non-scripted 'timecode.' It Can Become Entirely Indulgent: Actors Smashing Crockery And Competing Verbally.