It’s the sort of small film she’s now become associated with, a far cry from her period skirting the top of the A-list, but one that reflects a concerted effort to stay away from the spotlight. “I mean if you and I were having a beer we sure could but not for an interview.” “In so many ways and in such deep ways that I could never talk about right here,” she says, laughing. Can she? There’s a pause.Īlicia Silverstone in Bad Therapy. It’s mildly diverting at best but touches upon some interesting observations, such as one scene where Silverstone’s character bemoans having to be the person always taking care of her partner while not being taken care of herself. Specifically, her role in a scrappy new comedy called Bad Therapy, an indie about a couple experiencing problems in their relationship who seek help from a manipulative therapist. Veganism and animal rights have become something of a crusade for her ( she’s bared all for a number of Peta ads and uses her Instagram page to regularly remind her followers of the cruelty involved with the meat industry) but while she’s keen to discuss the importance of a plant-based diet at length (“We’re just killing people left and right with animal agriculture,” she tells me with vigour), we’re here to talk about movies. She still acts, on screen and on stage, but also devotes her time to parenting, activism and writing (she published a vegan cookbook in 2011). Silverstone, now 43, might live in the same city as she did back then (and literally in the same house as she bought in 1996) but her star is of a different kind now. “I felt empowered to be like ‘oh no you don’t!’” she tells me when faced with inappropriate behaviour. She tells me she doesn’t remember the wording of the profile in question (“But I remember the pictures!” she adds) but does remember how she was seen by men at the time and also how she would respond.
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“I was so overwhelmed by being famous because I was such a young girl and it was never really my intention,” she tells me over the phone from her house in Los Angeles, just a few miles away from where her character Cher lived on screen.īut the self-described “theatre nerd” had suddenly become one of the cool kids, inundated with offers and attention, not all of it welcomed.
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It was the year she broke out big with Clueless, Amy Heckerling’s sparkling teen comedy that transported the loose plot of Jane Austen’s Emma to Beverly Hills and rocketed her into a position of global stardom that no one at that age would feel equipped to deal with.