LEELEE OF THE VALLEY

Vanities

Name: Leelee Sobieski. Age: 16. Recently made her first big splash in: Mimi Leder's Deep Impact co-starring Elijah Wood and Robert Duvall. Soon to be going highbrow in: Merchant Ivory's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, featuring Barbara Hershey, and Stanley Kubrick's muchanticipated Eyes Wide Shut, with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Your "discovery" was a Lana-Tumer-at-Schwab's-like affair, wasn't it? was in my school cafeteria, and a casting director for Interview with the Vampire happened to bethere, and she asked me to audition for the movie. I had never acted a day in my life. I went to the audition and I was horrible." As one of the few people who have actually seen Stanley, Kubrick, much less worked with him, can you give us a little update? "Well, when I first got the part, I heard all these stories. That he's an amazing director, but he's weird, he's a little scary. But when I got there, he was the most charming man." As Hollywood's latest ingenue-to be, are you looking forward to losing your anonymity? "You get so much from acting. you have to take the fame with it. My parents are O.K. with me acting, but they said if I get a big head I'm coming right out

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