ABSTRACT
Maggie Gyllenhaal is an American actor whose film work includes the lead role in Steven Shainberg’s
Secretary
, with James Spader, as well as supporting roles in Mike Newell’s
Mona Lisa Smile
, starring Julia Roberts, and Spike Jonze’s
Adaptation
. In 2004, she gave an acclaimed performance as Priscilla, The Homebody’s daughter, in a production of Tony Kushner’s play
Homebody/Kabul
, which also starred Linda Emond. It played first at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York. When this interview was conducted in Los Angeles in August of 2004, she had just finished shooting Laurie Collyer’s
Shall Not Want
.
