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Patricia Arquette interview: on Boyhood, Nicolas Cage and growing up It'd be easy to get Patricia Arquette erroneous. When she sits down on a sofa opposite me in a Berlin hotel room that was plain, she gently spoken, fidgeting with a long tasselled scarf and is subdued. She exudes a rawness an untempered susceptibility and melancholy that gets you stress if she’s OK OK. It’s the same quality about which she once said, “Every man I’ve loved has tried to locate it, mend it, soothe it.” But Arquette, 46, has doesn’t need saving, and never. Not by Nicolas Cage, whom she met when she was 18, who proposed the same day, and whom she eventually married at 27. Not by Paul Rossi, the Argentine musician with whom she had a son, Enzo, at 20 and from whom she break when their infant was a month old. Not by her second husband, the actor Thomas Jane, with whom she has 11, Harlow, a daughter, and whom she divorced in 2011. She comes from a long line of free spirits and performers, from a 18th-century explorer via her great grandparents, a vaudeville double performance, to her parents, an actor and an actress-turned-therapist and poet, who demanded no rules or borders on their children. All five of the Arquette siblings ended up performers too: Rosanna, David, Richmond and Alexis (born Robert) are all actors. Patricia, “ the mother hen”, the classic middle child, was brought up to question power, to believe that anything was possible, even spiritual harmony: her father was Muslim, her mum Jewish, and she was sent to a Catholic school. She was harshly disabused of that idea when, at the age of six or five, a teacher told her that she couldn’t take communion she’s going to hell” and because your mother is Jewish. “You know what,” responded the young Arquette, who until that moment had desired to be a nun, “I think your Jesus and my Jesus are distinct.” Associated Posts Golden Globes: all the winners 12 Jan 2015 Sundance 2014: first verdict 20 Jan 2014, Boyhood Is this what adolescence resembles? 25 Apr 2014 Boyhood: 'the achievement of a lifetime' 23 Feb 2015 Eventually! Boyhood liberates on screen mums 11 Jul 2014 So it shouldn’t actually come as a surprise when, four minutes into our conversation, this other side of the mild-mannered Arquette seems. It comes for which she has won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Golden Globes and as we’re talking about her picture, Boyhood, where she plays a single mother who at one point finds herself in a abusive relationship –. Like the blinders go up “It ’s: she shuts out it. It’s world female that is quite old,” she starts. “Now, I wouldn’t be like this. I would climb across the table and stab him As she says this, she is up, miming the same actions and coming with one knee on the coffee table at me, her fist clenched about fictional cutlery. It’s so startling, I laugh. She then sits back down, laughs also, and returns to her scarf. Patricia Arquette in the 1993 movie True Romance (REX) It’s a bright morning in the centre of the Berlin Film Festival, despite it being nearly three hours long, the day after Boyhood has been screened to your full, rapt house. It’s one of the biggest lures of the festival, not only for its cast (Ethan Hawke also stars) and director (Before Sunrise’s Richard Linklater), but because it’s one of the most striking movies in years. Filmed in brief bursts over 12 years with the same cast, it follows a boy, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), and his family from when he is six to the day he arrives at university. It ’s dark and funny, epic and, as it is put by Arquette, “ little and human ”. When Linklater first approached her about the movie (“What are you doing for the next 12 years?” he inquired), there was no script or even a full storyline. At the start Mason’s parents (Arquette and Hawke) are estranged: she's struggling to make a life for her two kids; he is a wannabe musician who doesn’t even have seat belts in his car when he picks them up for a visit. His stars and Linklater brainstormed the remainder as they went along, drawing inspiration. They're all justifiably passionate about the result, and seeing it's an unusual experience: you have to keep reminding yourself that they didn’t need to “age up” the cast for later scenes, or use prop houses to source historical iPods and Obama/Biden bumper stickers. “When I first learned about it, I was blown away,” says Arquette, dressed in a mash up of polka dot silk skirt, ripped jeans, platform heels and stripy sweater. The complications didn’t faze her – such as finding a week every year in everyone’s calendar, or the fact that why they were spending money with no hope of a return for years the president of the studio repeatedly had to vindicate internally. This film does not in any manner fit into a business model, notably in America. More and more of the company is run by bankers – the smaller films are gone, pretty much. And there isn't any obvious demographic with this film: who’s going to need to view a movie about some youngsters growing up? A grandmother? They’re not tunnelling out of a penitentiary or going into outer space – there’s no plot thing which makes it easy to sell Arquette with her ex husband Thomas Jane in 2010 (REX) Working mostly in secret, the cast and crew became very close. Seeing it now, it’s impossible for her to not relive the events of their off-screen lives: “All of that, I find it happening: ‘That’s appropriate before my daughter was created, that’s when I got married [to Jane], that’s when I got divorced, that’s when Ethan got divorced [from Uma Thurman], that’s when Rick’s infants were simply born… That’s when Ellar’s mom and father split up, he’s a little gloomier there…’” You especially feel for Coltrane, having his awkward teenage years (acne et al) maintained on film, something he signed up for when he couldn’t have comprehended what he was getting into. “ Right, right, ” she says. I didn’t really think about that until they hit those minutes. But they’re incredible children, and it’s fantastic that they got the good part of acting – learning your craft and being beginning – but not the bizarre s— of, ‘Oh, you’re in a film, you think you’re cool?’” There was the outrageous call girl of True Romance (1993) who literally had to fight for her life, and the vulnerable bombshell of Lost Highway made to strip at gunpoint. In 1995 she said that 100 or 99 per cent of them are very sexual people”. Now she can see that “I wasn’t in my body entirely. I was still trying to find my way. I was still breaking out of my eggshell with my sticky membrane on, not knowing who I was, and I do think there’s validity in those narratives and with those filmmakers, although I’m grateful to have been part of those projects. Maybe I still don’t know.” Arquette constantly needed to be an actress, but it came at a cost. “When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behavior and I understood I needed to tell the story that is human, but I felt awkward and shy and unattractive. I didn’t want to be looked at. I remember when I was seven or six why people were looking at me asking my mother. She said, ‘They’re because you’re a beautiful little girl looking at you.’ But I did she is believed by n’t. And yet I put myself in a business where individuals need to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.” Arquette continues to be involved in two of the most discussed courtships in Hollywood history. Her second husband Jane proposed a Charlie Chaplin film to contain a cameo of himself holding up cards saying leased and ‘Will you marry me?’ a theater to screen it. She sent him to bring a black orchid and her JD Salinger’s autograph before she would say yes when they met in a La diner after Cage proposed. He passed the test, but destroyed everything by throwing an almighty tantrum at the airport in route to get married. Nine years later she proposed when they met at an identical deli, and they were married within fourteen days. They kept the wedding a secret, and it has been widely believed that they split after nine months keeping that quiet too until their divorce five years later. But when I raise this it’s not accurate. Arquette with her ex husband Nicolas Cage in 1997 (REX) It wasn’t as reported and I didn’t feel that I needed to explain that, although There were times when we weren’t living because we were fighting. There were times when my mother was perishing [ from breast cancer in 1997] and I was living with her, looking after her. There were times when he was away working on a movie. It was our thing. I don’t feel like I owe it to anyone. It’s amusing they place you in this position, and when folks are so wrong and decide who you're.” Deaths are ’ed by her parents, within several years of each other, greatly affected her and her sibs. “It was a horrifyingly painful wake-up call. It pulled us together. There were things that we didn’t get, some construction and stability, but we also got this spiritual depth from our parents that most individuals never experience Shortly afterwards she found she was pregnant. Her son Enzo was thrilled. “ He said, ‘It’s perfect timing – you need to baby someone, and I really need not to be babied anymore.’ I’m trusting, the way I’ve plotted it, I’ll be a grandma by the time [ Harlow leaves residence ]. There’s a small pressure You’re great Enzo, then you’d better get busy,’” she cackles. I ’ve been a different parent to my daughter and my son we were children together. I was hustling from your beginning.” Needless to say, she was in a position that is completely different, when Harlow was born, and the answer was when a producer asked her to lose her pregnancy weight for Medium,. “‘I completely disagree,’” she recalls telling him. “I wanted to demonstrate the real world: you do by looking a specific manner n’t need to buy your partner’s constancy. If you’re actually inside it for the long haul, 10pounds isn’t going to make – shouldn’t make – the world of difference She won (“I was blessed I had enough professional juice on my side that I 'd some power”) and was proven right: the show was a success and won her an Emmy and three Golden Globe nominations. She still wields that power, protected in work (she'll function as the lead in CSI: Cyber, which starts this autumn) and in herself, despite first impressions. When I inquire she is in a relationship too new to talk about, but smiles. “I ’m not genuinely unhappy. It’s not nasty, you know? Like my character says in Boyhood it’s: ‘Is that all there is? http://celebritynews.io/bollywood/2015/09/10/bollywood-showers-wishes-and-blessings-to-the-bollywoods-action-hero-akshay-kumar/ I believed there would be more I have felt that way before in cycles. Then occasionally you turn your life changes in five minutes and a corner. And you never saw it coming.”