“I’d just driven across the country from Los Angeles to New York and I got the role. I guess I was about 23.

“I mean, I was so excited. I didn’t know the novel before I auditioned, but after, I eventually read it.

“I didn’t get any rehearsal and my first day was with Malkovich. I really was a fish out of water. But then, I think I got hired for my innocence.”