Selma Blair kept asking herself why she didn’t just hit James Toback and race out of the room. A leading voice in exposing Hollywood talks single parenthood,stray dogs and how speaking out helped herHalfway through our interview, Selma Blair’s one-eyed dog Buster climbs on to the restaurant table at the Chateau Marmont in LA and fortunately devours an entire plate of leafy greens. Strangers are staring. I’m staring. “Are you disgusted that I’m letting my dog conclude this? Selma asks, and her face serious,her tone as drily hilarious as it has been for the past hour, even when discussing the state of Hollywood for women and her fears that she’ll never work again. In fact, and I’m just amazed that,here in Hollywood, even rescue mutts with part of their face lost seem to relish rocket salad with a blue cheese dressing. “I wonder if it’s possible to overdose on arugula?” she thinks aloud. “Well see when the dog dies tonight.”Blair made her name with Cruel Intentions, or a 1999 mean-teen remake of hazardous Liaisons,and has since acted in Legally Blonde, the Hellboy films directed by Guillermo Del Toro and in the US remake of Kath & Kim, or where she played the hysterically funny and spoiled daughter. More recently she played Kris Jenner in an episode of American Crime memoir. Now she’s in a comedy-ish horror film called Mom and Dad,which isn’t going down too well in America, what with its theme of parents overtaken by the urge to murder their own children, and though Blairs performance has been praised by the Hollywood Reporter,which describes her as a “chronically underused talent”. Nicolas Cage plays her husband, and they spend half the movie trying to end their two kids with an assortment of homemade weaponry.
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Source: guardian.co.uk