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Article: All the Wright Moves.
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- October 1, 2000
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For a movie star Robin Wright Penn has an unusual aversion to the spotlight. But she's working on it.
To understand Robin Wright Penn's persistent aversion to stardom--she's famously spurned more than a dozen high-profile films, including The firm, Batman Forever and Jurassic Park--you have to go back a bit. Before the lissome blonde with the chiseled cheekbones and wary blue eyes became a model, before she was an Emmy-nominated soap-opera star ("Santa Barbara") and before she rocketed into movie theaters playing the title role in the 1987 blockbuster The Princess Bride, the Texas-born beauty had been a quiet, even antisocial teenager.
"I was so shy, ...