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Article: JENNIFER JASON LEIGH THANKS HER MOM FOR WRITING JUICY ROLE.(TIMEOUT)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 8, 1996
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Byline: James Ryan Entertainment News Wire
Jennifer Jason Leigh has already achieved such remarkable extremes in her acting that it would take someone intimately familiar with her range and limitations to devise a character that stretches her abilities even further.
Who better than her own mother?
''This is probably one of the best parts I could ever hope to play,'' says Ms. Leigh of her character Sadie in ''Georgia,'' a tale of two sisters, opposite in every respect, written by her mother, long-time screenwriter Barbara Turner.
Sadie, the younger sister, is a tattooed, drug-using Seattle grunge-rocker wannabe who has little talent ...