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| • | "One thing she didn't prepare for: the chain-smoking scenes, which make up the bulk of her performance. 'Let me start by saying, I'm not a smoker,' Paulson says. 'I started with real cigarettes, and I found that horrifying, so I switched to the herbal kind. They are really just as disgusting. The smoke from them gets in your eyes, and it burns really bad. I would tear up, and my eyelashes would pop off. For every cigarette there were 20 takes, so for one scene, I'd end up smoking 60 cigarettes. But I'm glad I did it because it gave me something physical to get into the character.'", Arizona Republic, May 15, '03 |