“House of Cards” star Patricia Clarkson’s dish “surviving Hollywood”

Patricia Clarkson Survived in Hollywood.

Clarkson, 65, talked about her own real-life experience in an interview with Fox News Digital, and her latest film, Lilly, brought a surface to her.

The film is “based on the extraordinary true story of working-class hero Lilly Ledbetter, a hardworking Alabama tire factory manager whose single goal is to raise her family into the middle class.” Movie website nation.

“I’m not a 25-year-old woman. I’ve experienced a lot in my life,” Clarkson said.

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“For me, Lily’s journey was a profound emotional journey, a journey full of conflict and struggle, and ultimately a victory, but my hard work, how hard work, how to work, and still in a career at 65, lost love. Losing my family behind in New Orleans.”

“I’m not a 25-year-old woman. I’ve been through a lot in my life. I survived Hollywood, okay.”

– Patricia Clarkson

The film sparked memories of Clarkson’s “struggle” throughout her life, but she was proud to still be “here” and leave her mark in the entertainment industry.

Playing the role of Eli Lilly is Clarkson’s personal choice. She told Fox News Digital that Lilly Ledbetter was the personal hero of her mother’s death.

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“Sadly, my mother passed away and couldn’t see this movie, which broke my heart because my mother was a powerful person. She runs the city (New Orleans) and Lily Ledbetter is one of her heroes. Of course, she raised five daughters. The mother raised five daughters, and we are all industrial women, and my sisters are very accomplished.

Clarkson smiled and said, “I’m just a low-key actress. They all have real careers and real life.”

For decades in Hollywood, “House of Cards” The actress recognizes that women’s treatment in the industry is very different from what they were treated in the late 1980s.

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“Oh, it’s growing exponentially. When I first started, the first movie I made was ‘Untouchables’. My makeup artist was a man.

“This industry has evolved through leaps and boundaries, and finally it’s really right now, we don’t have a seat, but we’re very, very close. I think people are starting to realize that women can make money, we can win your money. We can win your awards. If you hire our lives, we can make your life better, you can pay.”

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Clarkson previously described herself as a “single, straight, southern woman” who never married or had children.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, she explained that her choice to stay single was from a young age.

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“It’s funny, you know, it’s shocking, but not really. I’m a very independent kid. I knew early on that I’m not the kind of marriage. I love working, I’m a main force.

“I have great men in my life. Not all, but many people who have made me a better person, and I’m so grateful to some of the outstanding people I’ve dated in my life,” Clarkson said. “Many of them need a wife and I know I’m not that.”

Clarkson told Fox News Digital that she had 10 nieces and nephews who she “worships” and they went on to have their own children.

“One of the greatest joys of my life is that they are their aunts. Now they have these cute kids that you can eat on a spoon. That’s enough for me. I do love other people’s kids. But I think I’m the best single.”

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Clarkson said there was a person asking her to consider a marriage, but looking at his current location, she was confident that the relationship would not be resolved. She didn’t name the man she was referring to.

“Eli Lilly” It debuted in the theater on May 9.

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