Jessica Biel Marie Claire Interview August 2017
Watch Out, Justin — Jessica Biel Says Playing a Murderous Wife Is "Like a Drug"
![On exploring her dark side with her character: "I have challenges standing up for myself sometimes. Times when I don't trust my own voice. And that's the stuff I needed to bring out and explore to understand Cora. [exploring her dark side] It's like a drug, like an adrenaline rush. There's a real catharsis . . . you're exhausted, you are free; you feel a lot of different things. For me, it's like a rebirth. Like I'm a phoenix rising up out of the ashes."
On being a child actor in Hollywood: "My Hollywood experience as a young person was never one of those True Hollywood stories where I was left alone to my own devices with no parental supervision. There was always somebody with me."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/ps-image-unavailable.png "On exploring her dark side with her character: \"I have challenges standing up for myself sometimes. Times when I don't trust my own voice. And that's the stuff I needed to bring out and explore to understand Cora. [exploring her dark side] It's like a drug, like an adrenaline rush. There's a real catharsis . . . you're exhausted, you are free; you feel a lot of different things. For me, it's like a rebirth. Like I'm a phoenix rising up out of the ashes.\"
On being a child actor in Hollywood: \"My Hollywood experience as a young person was never one of those True Hollywood stories where I was left alone to my own devices with no parental supervision. There was always somebody with me.\"")
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