Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’

After more than 40 years in the spotlight, the actor is about to be more prominent than ever, starring in the final season of House of CardsAfter more than 40 years as an actor, Diane Lane is thankful for one thing: her scripts no longer routinely include the line: “He’ll kill us if he finds us!” At one point in her career, she laughs, three of her characters were called on to say just that.

“I don’t ever want to say that again, because it’s always coming from this ‘clandestine-affair woman’.”That’s just one of the female archetypes Lane has played among more than 70 roles to date, which have taken in films for directors such as Francis Ford Coppola and Richard Attenborough.

She played angsty teens in The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, before graduating to action-star sidekicks in Judge Dredd and Murder at 1600, big-star love interests in The Perfect Storm and Hardball,

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