Andie's old habits go up in smoke
Excerpt: Unlike her character in the film, who drinks enthusiastically (along with the local doctor and police chief, played with great gusto by Anna Chancellor and Imelda Staunton), MacDowell never took to the bottle. But then, her mother was an alcoholic. "Drinking has never been the answer for me," she says, "it makes me feel worse." Instead, she took up smoking. "It's bizarre to start as a woman of 40 but cigarettes were absolutely fabulous," she says, with a hint of wickedness. But for someone of her rigid self-control, a nicotine addiction turned into a nightmare. "I was terrified that people would find out that I was a closet smoker." Read More
Source: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/07/1022982767158.html
Article date: June 9, 2002
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