The Fabulous Brittany Murphy Fan Page - Vanity Fair
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Name: Brittany Murphy
Age: 21
Has epotomized dysfunctional youth in:
Amy Heckerling's Clueless, and Fox's King of the Hill
as the voice of Luanne.
Soon to play a dysfunctional adult in:
Gary Fleder's Piece of My Heart, as the doomed rocker Janis Joplin, and
Drop Dead Gorgeous, with Denise Richards and Kirsten
Dunst.
Your performance as Tai in Clueless was quite convincing. Was that
the real Brittany we saw on the screen, or a tour de force of Method
acting?
"I was 16 years old, so it was basically my awkward years captured
on celluloid forever. At the time I was quite insecure."
How performing a Gershwim song at her friend's wedding got her the Joplin
role:
"I sang 'Love Is Here to Stay' at my manager Joanna Colonna's
wedding. The head of casting for Paramount happened to be there
and sent me the script the next day. I found out that the wedding day
was also the day Joplin died!"
Sounds rather cosmic. Whats the strangest thing about incipient fame?
"I'd say to be driving down the street and seeing your big head
on a billboard — it's pretty freaky."
— Krista Smith
June 1999 page 151
Photography by Pamela Hanson
Styled by Kim Debus
Dress by Dolce & Gabbana
Hair by Steven Ward
Makeup by Denise Markey
Photographed at the Hotel Plaza Athenee for details see credit page
in magazine.
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