Calista Flockhart (Illinois, United States, 59 years old) was working on a play in New York when she decided to audition for Ally McBeal. She flew to Los Angeles on the same plane as Jane Krakowski, who would end up becoming her co-star when she landed the role of Elaine Vassal in the hit 90s comedy. Flockhart, who was 33 years old at the time, took on the lead character, that of Ally McBeal, a young 27-year-old lawyer who joins a prestigious law firm where her ex-boyfriend also works. “I always remember that it was a whole room of people in suits and there was no camera, there was no makeup… It seemed like a theater audition. “Suddenly I felt like I was in a play,” she admitted about that selection process. in Awards Chatterhe podcast of The Hollywood Reporter.
The anonymity of the theater had little to do with the overwhelming fame that came to Flockhart at that time. “I realized that this was really cool, that people were watching it and talking about it, and then people started debating about it. I mean, it was amazing. That is the goal, right? “He asks himself in the interview. However, the actress who recently played Lee Radziwill in the series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans He also acknowledges that he began to notice unpleasant consequences in his personal life associated with his growing popularity. He lost his anonymity and privacy, and suddenly had to start dealing with the constant company of paparazzi, as he recalls in the podcast. “At the risk of sounding like I’m whining, the paparazzi really followed me everywhere,” the performer explains. “Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever really adapted to them.”
Flockhart relates that she began to associate seeing the photographers with the preconceived idea that a damaging article would then be written about her. And this whole situation, he says, negatively affected her mental health. “I decided the only thing I could do was stay inside, so I stopped leaving my apartment,” she confesses. “I stopped leaving my house. I stopped going out and they isolated me. I don’t want to go as far as to say I was depressed, but it was difficult. It was quite a challenge,” he continues detailing.
Her performance as Ally McBeal earned her three Emmy nominations and five Golden Globe nominations, an award she won in 1998. Getting on that plane to Los Angeles to audition undoubtedly marked a before and after in his career, but it also completely changed his life, he says. As he admits, at first, when he found out about the project, he was not interested in it. What would have happened to his life if he had not accepted the role? “I probably would have stayed in New York doing a lot of theater, and hopefully started a family, and hopefully eventually found a TV show or a movie or something,” he opens up. “I mean, I think I would have continued acting.”
Probably, in that case she would never have met her current husband, actor Harrison Ford (Illinois, United States, 81 years old), with whom she said “I do” in 2010. They met at the Golden Globes gala. from 2002, where the protagonist of the sagas of Indiana Jones either Star Wars He was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. Many media outlets then questioned this relationship due to the age difference between them. “It doesn’t bother me. Sometimes I even say, ‘Wow, I keep forgetting that he’s 22 years older than me.’ It doesn’t influence our relationship at all. I like the way he looks first thing in the morning. He’s not handsome, he’s rather cute. “He looks like a little boy,” she declared to Hello! Magazine in 2003.
He also has a son, Liam, 23, whom he adopted in 2001, when he was still working on the well-known comedy. “I have always wanted to adopt a child and I am delighted to have been blessed with a beautiful, healthy son. “I am happy and amazed,” she announced in a statement.
Personally, he has maintained all these years that discretion that he longed for since his name became known worldwide. Something that she has also done in his professional aspect. The Serie Ally McBeal It aired its last episode in May 2002. And what is clear is that he does not deny that success or that past: in the last edition of the Emmy Awards he appeared with his co-stars on stage dancing to the title song. Of course, since the end of that series, Flockhart’s work on screen has been much less high-profile. Apart from his recent work in Feudher roles as Kitty Walker in Five brothers (2006-2011), and as Cat Grant during the first season of Supergirl (2015-2016).
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