My Extraordinary Ordinary Life (21 page)

Lee Marvin unexpectedly took off from the set of
Prime Cut
with me in the back of the car wearing nothing but a horse blanket. What a sight I must have been walking into the hotel lobby.

Richard Farnsworth and me in Iowa for
The Straight Story
. Richard was nominated for an Oscar; I cut my hair and wore prosthetic teeth to play his daughter.

Me as Loretta Lynn with Ernest Tubb at the Ryman Auditorium.

With Brian De Palma on the set of
Carrie
. I’m wearing the sailor dress my mom made for me in the seventh grade.

The kite scene in
Raggedy Man
with (left to right) Carey Clyde Leebo Hollis, Henry Thomas, and Eric Roberts. I was channeling my mother in this scene.

Loretta and me after I won the Oscar for
Coal Miner’s Daughter
. She believes we were sisters in a past life. For two years Loretta told everybody that I was going to play her in the movie. I wasn’t so sure … until I met her.

Here I am on the set of
Heart Beat
with John Heard and Nick Nolte. David Lynch painted the artwork for this scene and played the artist.

I always liked tuxedos more than gowns.

Me and my girlfriends Janit and Monica. I got that Hawaiian shirt in a thrift store.

I’ve always loved Jack’s gap-toothed smile.

Me in Beirut, dressed rather inappropriately, during our honeymoon.

Jack and me on our first visit to Cannes. The next time we came back I was eight months pregnant.

Jack and Five a few years before we met.