The actor, who broke through in 1983 playing a welder who dreamed of being a dancer, reflects on a life of activism, why gen Z give her hope and joining the Star Wars universeJennifer Beals is talking to me by Zoom from … “Do I have to say?” she asks.
Not really, I tell her.
“I can tell you there’s a blizzard outside and it’s really beautiful.” Her reticence, which lasts about 30 seconds, is because she is in New York, filming a yet to be announced new season of Law & Order.
You could imagine her taking a friend’s secret to the grave; she is very cagey about where she lives, tending to call herself “nomadic” and describing her home as “the middle of nowhere”.
Commercial discretion, though? Not so much.It is creepy to go on about how young actors still look, as though that were a goal in itself,
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