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"Modeling definitely wasn't what I wanted to do," she shrugs. "But then a woman suggested a spiritual retreat, and that was the beginning of an endless series of spiritual workshops for me. It was beautiful because I shifted from thinking into feeling, and I learned a new way to relate to life. I got to experience love and hurt and not just talk about it, and I learned to experience myself as me, not through someone else's eyes."
"New York really lets you flower," she says. "I am not as fragile anymore. I stand steady, I am no longer a victim. What I want now is an interesting part in a feature film. So often you get typecast, which is sad, because as an actress you want to stretch, but I also think that there's something Nordic that colors me and makes me hard to place. Perhaps I am more obviously layered than other actresses."Nordic is a word that comes up a lot. For Charlotte it means "knowing the darkness and silence within; to be down-toearth," she explains. "I feel there's something Swedish in that. I appreciate now, finally, the grounds that have shaped me. Last year I went home for Christmas, and I felt very connected to the grounds there, to nature. I'm coming into womanhood, and I definitely feel I am a Nordic woman."See the full content of this document
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Lotus Power
At the end of his play A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams has his tragic heroine Blanche Dubois say: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Although there's nothing remotely tragic...See the full content of this document
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