Her hair is red, voluminous and wild. She walks with a swagger. Her voice is raspy, and not in a sexy kind of Lauren Bacall way but more like Peter Falk.
โItโs weird that all of a sudden, one day, everybody looks at you differently and youโre aware of it,โ says Lyonne, 46.
โI remember the Lolita audition, and it was like, โWill you slowly eat this apple?โ And I was like, โI know what youโre asking of me. I can eat it for you comedicallyโ. But no, I will not simulate sex with an apple on camera.
โI mean, Iโd studied the history of film. These were not revelations.โ
Lyonne forged a career by finding and later creating projects that capitalised on her undeniably intrepid personality, wrapping the roles around her eccentricities rather than conforming to what was expected of a female performer in Hollywood.