Though her job requires actress Andie MacDowell to be the center of attention, she’d rather be bird-watching or poring over a good book.
The star of projects like “Sex, Lies and Videotape,” “Groundhog Day,” “Jane by Design,” and spokeswoman for L’Oreal cosmetics, acknowledges she’s part introvert and part extrovert.
“I’m really both,” she said. “There’s a deep piece of me that wants to be very personal and not share everything with everybody and not put it out there.
“But there’s another part of me that’s perfectly fine with it. It’s almost a dual personality,” she said.
The actress who’s starring in the Hallmark Channel’s first prime-time scripted series, “Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove,” (at 8 p.m. Saturdays) says that while she was shy as a girl, she was equally determined.
“I used to joke that I wanted to join the circus. And I did, because we show up and when all the trailers are there in the morning on the set, they call that ‘the circus.’
When she was still in pigtails she trudged to her local college to try out for a play.
“And I talked to my parents and told that I wanted to be an actor, but no one in my family was doing this. It was just something I had in my mind.
“I would put on shows in my garage. I took dance and would put on dance shows and get the neighbors to participate. I think it was just in my genes,” she said.
She blew most of her nest egg on a Ralph Lauren suit thinking it was required for interviews.
She was hired practically on the spot and found herself on a dizzying array of modeling assignments beginning in Paris.
“I traveled all around. I had to go to all these countries by myself, travel around by myself, nobody was helping me. I got a great education.”
Missing in action: When “Homeland” returns for its third season on Showtime on Sept. 29, it will be missing one of its two stars. Damian Lewis, who plays Brody, will not appear in the first two episodes. But it’s all by design, Lewis said.
“It is a function of the story that we don’t see Brody. Brody is on the lam. He’s the most wanted criminal in the world, arguably, at this point. So he has to lay low.
Is he swimming around a yacht off the Cote d’Azure, surrounded by a bevy of Russian beauties? Or is he hidden away securely somewhere? Or is he lost? When you do see Brody for the first time, it will be interesting,” Lewis said.
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