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This occasionally reads like a Bret Easton Ellis novel, it is not bad at all, I just wish Lena's brutal honesty would touch her victimized persona as well –although this is a memoir and I would not ask someone to be purposefully cruel with themselves for art. But it makes it hard to feel deeply for someone who never takes responsibility for anything in her life, failures or achievements.
— Jun 05, 2026 10:57AM
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At work, I found it was hard to act or direct when I wasn’t, in fact, a person. I wondered if everyone on set could tell that an alien had replaced me. I wondered if my scene partners could feel how barely human I was. I remember doing a fight scene with Adam and how scary it was to meet someone so totally present with such absence.
— May 29, 2026 03:05PM
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Jun 05, 2026 10:59AM
"(...) unsure how to dress my emaciated, foreign body, I took my cues from pop stars and anime characters. In the photos from this time, my eye shadow is shades of hot pink, yellow, baby blue; my skirts are short and my heels are high; my eyes are hollow, and I’d stopped trying to greet anyone with a smile (...)"
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"Our whole culture values the potential of life more than the existence of it, and women as vessels for that life more than as sentient beings. So doctors always pointed at my ultrasound and tried to give my womb a nice compliment—“Look at her, she can do it!”—and I’d laugh and I’d smile, but I knew that the blank space, the black hole captured onscreen, was all I’d ever see"
