What I’ve learnt: Heather Graham

‘When things happened to me, I knew I couldn’t go to the police’
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Actress Heather Graham, 48, starred as Rollergirl in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Boogie Nights, and appeared in The Hangover and David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks. Her directorial debut, Half Magic, has just been released in America. She is estranged from her Catholic parents and divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Sex on screen is mainly depicted from a male point of view. And that’s because it’s mostly men making movies about sex. When you accept a role in a film, people often assume you are like the character you play when, in fact, you are portraying a role that a man wrote and a man directed.

Men will have to deal with the consequences of their actions. It didn’t feel that