Mira Sorvino
Mira Sorvino
Mira Katherine Sorvinois an American actress. She came to prominence after winning the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite. She is also known for starring in the films Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Mimic, The Replacement Killers, Summer of Sam, and Like Dandelion Dust. She received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in Norma Jean & Marilyn, and a Golden Globe nomination for her role in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 September 1967
CountryUnited States of America
We felt she should have her own history of sexual abuse . . . which makes her feel very deeply about what she is doing, because she's having to look backward into her own vulnerability as well as using all her training and strength,
We're going to be a family of four.
These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families will be destroyed, ... They have no other options.
I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.
I (didn't) want to feel embarrassed doing this really zany character.
They used to take important social topics and sort of sex them up to make people want to watch them, and I think that this film handles it with the gravitas that it deserves,
There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wants to be a pin-up girl in garages across America...there's a side that wants to wear the pink angora bikini!
There was a sort of diagram. Everything else that was said was really stuff that came out of our own heads.
The way that trafficking is stopped is just ordinary people become aware of it and they see something awry and then call in a tip, ... And until people can fathom that their next-door neighbor might have a slave in their house, they're not going to see the signs and think to call the police.
I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.
I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
Being is like pretending.