In her own words, Diane Lane is 'a bit of an anomaly'. Despite a screen career that stretches back three decades, the 43-year-old seems surprised she's still working.
'How I stayed hired I don't know,' she says. 'I can certainly vouch for walking humbly with my God, because I don't have any business still being here. But I am.'
Looking sensational in a purple dress and black cardigan, a perfect contrast to her blonde hair and brown eyes, it's easy to see why she has. But in Lane's view, without a high movie hit rate, you're days in Hollywood are numbered.
In her case, the last big one was 2000's The Perfect Storm - although its staggering US$328 million global gross was due more to George Clooney and some CGI waves than her presence.
While she subsequently gleaned an Oscar nomination for her role in Adrian Lyne's 2002 drama Unfaithful, Lane recently said she's so sick of the bland parts on offer that she's considering quitting the industry for good. 'I always live rope-to-rope in the jungle,' she says.
'I never know if there's going to be another [film]. I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have.' Listening to her, you'd think Lane was a complete fraud. Perhaps she feels it's now time to step aside and allow her husband of four years, Josh Brolin - the No Country For Old Men star currently playing President George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's W. - to finally bask in the spotlight.
