The star of the eerie Netflix show The Killing reveals the novel that took her on an inward journey.
Proust's multivolume In Search of Lost Time took me three years to read—an amazing journey that reminded me why I love being an actor. Acting enables you to explore the strangeness of humanity, to get past all the armor and defenses and learn to be compassionate, to have more generosity toward the people around you. Proust's Narrator always felt alien in the world. He has a broken openness that makes walking through life painful for him, yet he's always striving to be more vulnerable, to be more understanding. I believe that's the key to being an actor—the ability to put yourself in another's shoes and not judge.
From the August 2014 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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