AT age 11 Anna Paquin won Best Sup porting Actress in Jane Campion’s “The Piano” with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. She says: “That was 1993. I’ve grown up a lot since, but it’s always what everyone asks about. I’m now close to Holly Hunter’s age. I could play my own character’s mother. It felt weird when I saw it recently on DVD.”

Today, along with her financier brother, she’s a first-time producer and debuting Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival. “Blue State” is a political romantic comedy about a Dem who follows his promise to live abroad if Dubya gets re-elected. Anna, who plays the girlfriend, says: “A writer friend from college took the idea to my brother, and that’s how it began. It’s a small independent film, and I can’t even say what it cost. I was nervous about producing, but I have a high threshold of fear and figured, ‘Well, this either works or doesn’t.’ But I’d rather be scared than not to have tried.”

About whether her face is recognizable to fans today, it’s, “I don’t want people looking and then having to give them my résumé. So I walk really fast. I blend into a crowd.”

Source: Page Six

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 and is filed under Press.

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