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Year 1
You will develop a strong mathematical base in the first year that you will build on during the rest of your studies. You will also become familiar with the various perspectives on Data Science and you will complete your first Data Challenge.
In the second block you either take the course Applied Physical Sciences or Understanding the Information Society. Which of these two courses you
take depends on the university you enrolled at. If your main enrollment is at
Tilburg University, you will take Understanding the Information Society. If
your main enrollment is at Eindhoven University of Technology you will take
Applied Physical Sciences. This is the only difference in content determined by
your enrollment (if you send in a well-founded request to the Examining Board,
switching from one course to the other is possible). Apart from this one
difference, all students take the same
joint program.
We will explain some of the courses in more detail to give you an impression of what you can expect in the first year.
Data Statistics
In this course you will learn how to use modern statistical software to analyze data and get useful information. Statistics can be divided roughly into "descriptive statistics" and "inferential statistics". Descriptive statistics summarizes and visualizes the observed data. It is usually not very difficult, but it forms an essential part of reporting (scientific) results. Inferential statistics tries to draw conclusions from the data that would hold true for part or the whole population from which the data is collected.
For instance, one group of patients may receive a control treatment and another group of patients may receive a new treatment. One specific question is whether the new treatment is better than the control treatment. Another question is whether the two treatments are (clinically) equivalent. The benefit of the new treatment may not be at the clinical outcome, but could lie somewhere else, e.g. it may be much cheaper or less invasive than the control treatment. In that case, we would like the new treatment not to be worse. These questions are mostly translated to statistical quantities like population means, medians, or proportions.
Another example is when a production process is being replaced or enhanced. The improved process should typically show more consistent quality in the products that are produced with the new process. Correct decisions in those cases are possible by making use of the theory of hypothesis testing.
The course includes an assignment in which you have to analyze data from a movie about a national disaster. You as a data scientist should draw the correct conclusions so that one can take the right decision to save many lives!
Data Ethics
What makes our joint
Bachelor unique is that we combine the technical expertise needed to handle big
data with perspectives from Law, Ethics, Economics, Humanities and the social
sciences. To become a true all-round data scientist, a multifaceted
understanding of ethics and law is crucial. A data scientist trained today can
expect to work not only in the private sector but also potentially with
government and NGOs, and to be involved in applications of data science from
business analytics to humanitarian emergencies. Data scientists are involved in
journalism and public policy, they help create smart urban environments and help
to solve problems in fields as diverse as cancer research to space travel. Even
when they work exclusively for private companies, data scientists' work has
far-reaching implications for society and for our collective wellbeing.
The relation between ethics and data science
For these reasons, understanding
how ethics relate to data science is important not only in order to make
informed choices about what data and methods to use, but also in order to build
successful solutions to real-world problems. For example, data scientists have
accidentally produced crime prediction applications that are heavily biased
against ethnic minorities; have become involved in mass surveillance in ways
that pose risks to democratic processes, and have developed applications such
as facial recognition and biometric systems that tend to discriminate against
the poorest and most vulnerable. Just as medical students study ethics as an
important element of their training, data scientists also need to understand
the impacts of their work on individuals and society.
Google as an example
To take one commercial
example, Google's search service has recently been found to prioritize what has
been termed 'fake news' – fictional, misleading or biased search results that
impact users' ability to make informed choices. Reports show that it is
possible to game the search algorithm so that it shows biased results: for
example a search for 'did the Holocaust happen?' was recently found to produce
a page of Holocaust denial sites managed by the political far Right. In a
different machine-learning problem, a flaw in Google's Photos app led to it
tagging black people as gorillas.
Big data reflect the biases and prejudice of the crowd
In order to do good work in data science, it is essential to have an understanding of the ways in which that work can go wrong. Solutions that rely on big data – the inputs of the crowd – also tend to reflect the biases and prejudice of that crowd, and unless social and ethical understanding supports scientific knowledge, data science may end up reinforcing inequality and unfairness.
The Data Science Ethics course
In the Data Science Ethics course, we investigate which ethical frameworks should guide data scientists as they aspire to produce innovative, profitable, and useful applications. We will ask what responsible data science consists of, using case studies from current practice that raise issues around values. The course has an emphasis on multidisciplinarity, responsibility to stakeholders and creating social value. Issues covered may include:
- The implications of using personal data from individuals as a startup or an established company;
- The rights and wrongs of using hacked or leaked data;
- De-identification techniques and decision making frameworks for decreasing the risks of particular applications;
- Ethical and legal challenges related to 'living laboratories' in smart urban environments, and their implications on the individual and group level;
- The real-life difficulties of regulating data use in line with societal values.
Data Challenge
During this course you will put theory from courses like Data Mining, Data Statics and Data Science Research Methods into practice. The aim of this course is to teach you how to perform large-scale data-driven analyses yourself. You will use real-life data sets from cooperating companies and organizations. An important element in this course is handling large datasets stored in various formats (files, relational databases, object databases, etc.), pre-processing the data and storing the analysis results in a suitable data format.
The aim of the first data challenge is deceptively simple: you will have to answer a number of questions from a "client" using an existing dataset. We will try to make this as real as possible: there is real data, a real client (represented by two of their employees, each with different backgrounds and aims) and you will really have to convince them. This also means that you will have to solve real problems: how do you deal with the large dataset? How do you know the data is valid? How was it collected? What is the actual aim of the client? The data challenges will become more and more challenging as the course advances.
After taking the
course, you will be able to:
- Independently apply and follow established data science research methods for a given problem and dataset.
- Access, process, and reason about large, complex datasets provided in various data formats.
- Independently find and familiarize yourself with programming languages, libraries, programs and software.
Block 1
- Calculus
- Perspectives on Data Science
- Programming
Total 15 ECTS
Block 2
- Applied Physical Sciences / Understanding the Information Society
- Foundations of Computing
- Data Statistics
Total 15 ECTS
Block 3
- Data Engineering
- Creative Thinking
- Data Mining
Total 15 ECTS
Block 4
- Data Science Ethics
- Data Challenge
- Statistical Computing
Total 15 ECTS
Year 2
In the second year, you will study the legal, economic, mathematical, and technical aspects of data research in more depth. You fill some of your program yourself with elective modules and apply all your acquired knowledge and skills in two Data Challenges.
Block 1
- Engineering Design
- Law and Data Science
- Elective
Total 15 ECTS
Block 2
- Data Science Research Methods
- Data Challenge
- Business Analytics
Total 15 ECTS
Block 3
- Process Mining
- Data Challenge
- Elective
Total 15 ECTS
Block 4
- Innovation and Regulation
- Visualization
- Elective
Total 15 ECTS
Year 3
Entrepreneurship plays a greater role in the third year, which offers courses such as Start-ups and Business Insights. There is a more extensive choice of electives, so that you can make sure the subjects you choose are best suited to the master you are looking to take. You will complete the program with a Bachelor's thesis.
Block 1
- Business Insights
- Data Challenge
- Elective
Total 15 ECTS
Block 2
- Cognitive Science
- Start-ups
- Elective
Total 15 ECTS
Block 3
- Elective
- Elective
- Elective
Total 15 ECTS
Block 4
- Final Bachelor Project
- Elective
Total 15 ECTS


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Police Elections' Monitoring & Management Course Starts
The Eastern Africa Standby Force launched the Police Component's Elections' Monitoring & Management Course at the International Peace Support Training Center (IPSTC) in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya on 16th April 2018.
Director Calls on Chairperson, Council of Ministers for Defence
The EASF Director, Dr.Adbillahi Omar Bouh, made a courtesy call on the Ugandan Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs, Hon. Adolf Mwesige who is also the current Chairperson of the Council of Ministers for Defence and Security of the Eastern Africa region on 9th April 2018 in Mbuya, Kampala, Uganda.
NARC's Delegation Visits EASF Secretariat
A delegation of officers from the North Africa Regional Capability (NARC) led by its Executive Secretary, Brigadier General (Ret) Ahmed Hamaida Altajouri, visited the EASF Secretariat in Karen, Nairobi, on 10th April 2018.
First Civilian Foundation Course for 2018 Starts
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Tadium Vita - Poem by Oscar Wilde
TO stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear
This paltry age's gaudy livery,
To let each base hand filch my treasury,
To mesh my soul within a woman's hair,
And be mere Fortune's lackeyed groom,--I swear
I love it not! these things are less to me
Than the thin foam that frets upon the sea,
Less than the thistle-down of summer air
Which hath no seed: better to stand aloof
Far from these slanderous fools who mock my life
Knowing me not, better the lowliest roof
Fit for the meanest hind to sojourn in,
Than to go back to that hoarse cave of strife
Where my white soul first kissed the mouth of sin.
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The Kidd Creek zinc smelter was commissioned in 1972 with a capacity of 105kt/a cathode zinc to treat concentrate from the Kidd Creek mine. The Kiddmet site is shared with a 145kt/a copper smelter, commissioned in 1981. Noranda's ownership of Falconbridge slowly increased in the late 1990s/early 2000s, Noranda acting as selling agent for Kidd Creek's zinc and Norfalco for its sulphuric acid. Falconbridge and Noranda merged in June 2005. Xstrata bought Falconbridge in August...
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can u buy tinidazole over the counter Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's) and their Prevention
Sexually Transmitted Diseases are the infections which can be transmitted from one person to another person through sexual contact. Some STD's can be treated and cured while some could be very dangerous and damaging to health, even cause death.
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Last week we explored how breaking down metrics into components made it easy to find the drivers when our metrics changed. However, in every case I magically knew exactly which dimensions to look at! In the real world, the hardest part of solving these mysteries is finding the right dimensions to analyze.
If you think about any metric in your business there are dozens of different dimensions you might analyze. For example, you might be able to analyze Revenue by Country, Product, Customer, Channel, etc. Most metrics will have far too many dimensions for you simply to look at them all.
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'Seek the Good of Others'
Lesson Text:1 Corinthians 14:13-26
Background Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:13-26
Devotional Reading: Titus 3:8-14
1 Corinthians 14:13-26 (KJV)
13Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
16Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
22Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
23If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
26How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
To identify ways to create a group worship experience that is edifying.
To compare and contrast speaking in tongues with our own interest (personally rewarding), as oppose to speaking in tongues not edifying the church (without being explained).
To identify one practice in your church's conduct of worship services that may be a barrier to unbelievers and discuss with church leaders a plan for change.
Introduction - Birth of a Movement
In 1906, William J. Seymour opened the Apostolic Faith Mission church in a modest, two-story building south of the Los Angeles city hall. Seymour was preaching a new type of message, and the church was quickly flooded with people. Seymour proposed that becoming a Christian was a three-step process: (1) salvation by faith, (2) cleansing sanctification of the believer by the Holy Spirit, and (3) filling of the believer by the Holy Spirit in a miraculous way.
The most prominent of the miraculous works of the Holy Spirit was said to be the ability to speak in tongues—ecstatic languages of prayer and worship. Seymour and others declared that this was a restoration of the gifts of the first-century church as depicted in the book of Acts. What Seymour launched came to be known as the Azusa Street Revival, which lasted until about 1915.
Many churches came into being as a result, and these came to be known as Pentecostal churches. Later, a similar movement of people known as charismatics began to develop within many denominations. Charismatics often encountered hostility in churches that did not accept the practice of speaking in tongues. Despite opposition, the charismatic movement has grown. It is estimated that 500 million Christians today are charismatic or Pentecostal—25 percent of all Christians worldwide.
The practice of speaking in tongues was controversial in Paul's day. It is still controversial today because many believe that the miraculous spiritual gifts, including the ability to speak in tongues, ceased with the completion of the New Testament; this is known as cessationism. Regardless of which view is preferred, it's clear that there are principles in Paul's instructions that still apply. The apostle wanted his readers to value all spiritual gifts and be careful to use their special abilities in love (see 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13).
Time:A.D. 55
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Paul wrote letters to the churches in Rome, Corinth, the region of Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colosse, and Thessalonica. Yet in all of his letters, Paul addressed the issue of speaking in tongues only with the church in Corinth, and only in 1 Corinthians. (The other New Testament texts that address this subject are Acts 2:4; 10:46; 19:6.) Paul's lengthy discussion of tongues in 1 Corinthians indicates that this was a point of controversy within the Corinthian church.
Scholars within Pentecostal churches generally divide the phenomenon into two categories. One category is glossolalia, defined as a worship language that does not communicate by itself, but needs interpretation. Sometimes this is called a prayer language (based on 1 Corinthians 14:14), a worship language (based on 14:15), or the language of angels (based on 13:1). The other general category is xenoglossia, the miraculous ability to speak in an existing foreign language that the speaker has not studied. The purpose is usually for evangelism, as in Acts 2.
One thing to keep in mind as we study this lesson is that not everyone in the Corinthian church spoke in tongues. We can see this fact in a series of seven rhetorical questions that Paul asks in 1 Corinthians 12:29, 30. The sixth of these is 'Do all speak in tongues?' The expected answer to this and to the other six questions is no.
Paul has already said several things about speaking in tongues in 1 Corinthians 14 by the time we get to the opening wherefore of today's text: it is speaking to God (v. 2a), is a spiritual mystery (v. 2b), and is primarily for self-edification (v. 4). Paul also expressed a personal desire that all the Corinthians speak in tongues (v. 5), but he further taught that prophesying was to be preferred over speaking in tongues 'except he interpret' (v. 5).
Seeking to Understand: 1 Corinthians 14:13-17
1. What did Paul say about the understanding of speaking in tongues? (1 Corinthians 14:13-14)
In chapter 14, Paul contrasted prophecy with speaking in tongues. He maintained there was nothing wrong with the tongues gift-in its proper place. But in church, prophecy and other intelligible gifts were more valuable (v. 1). The apostle gave his readers his understanding of speaking in tongues, which is that it was speech directed toward God rather than toward people. In the absence of someone to interpret what was said, the tongues remained unintelligible to the listeners. While God comprehended what the persons uttered in their spirit, it remained a mystery to others (v. 2). In contrast, those who prophesied were communicating with the rest of the people in the assembly. The words being spoken built up the listeners spiritually, stimulated them in their faith, and consoled them in their walk with the Savior (v. 3).
Clearly Paul was concerned about the overuse of tongues-speaking at worship services. His readers were zealous about speaking in tongues, but the apostle wanted them to redirect their zeal toward gifts that would edify the church (v. 12). Paul had made it clear to the Corinthians that messages had value for others only when the words could be understood. That's why he directed tongues-speakers to pray that God would give them the ability to explain the meaning of what they said (v. 13). The ability to interpret tongues is, in itself, a spiritual gift (see 12:10). So, if believers had both gifts, they could speak in tongues and then interpret what had been said for the edification of others.
2.Why did Paul say about singing in the spirit with understanding? (1 Corinthians 14:15-17)
In the view of the KJV translators, the spirit Paul speaks of here is the human spirit, as indicated by its lack of being capitalized: spirit, not Spirit. This is the correct translation, and it allows us to understand this verse better. Paul is not in favor of mindless activity—speaking that is not understood by the hearers. He wants singing that is spiritual and 'with the understanding also.' (Evidently, some worshipers would offer spontaneous hymns of praise to God, with lyrics in an unknown language.) Paul wants the mind to be aware of what the mouth is saying. Otherwise when you are praising God in the spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer, say 'Amen' to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? (v. 16). Those listening were therefore left without spiritual edification and were nothing more than observers (v. 17).
What Do You Think?
Seven times in this section (vs. 13-20), Paul used the word understanding. What steps can the church take to make the gospel more understanding to an uncomprehending world?
Talking Points for Your Discussion
Spiritual jargon | Biblical terms that culture misdefines | Cultural awareness | Other
Worship that is Comprehensible: 1 Corinthians 14:18-26
3. Even though Paul spoke in tongues, what did he say he preferred, and why did he prefer this? (1 Corinthians 14:18, 19)
Paul continues by stating a fact that some may find surprising: I speak with tongues more than ye all. There is no one more invested in speaking in tongues than the apostle himself, the very one who had planted the church in Corinth.
Despite his own proficiency in the tongues area, Paul points the readers in a different direction. He notes that to speak an unknown tongue is not to speak with understanding. Five words that are understood are to be preferred over ten thousand words that are without meaning to the hearers. Paul's goal in the speaking of clearly understood words is the teaching of others. The unknown words of tongues may be impressive and exciting, but they do not benefit others since such words convey no useful content.
4. What didPaul tell the Corinthian believers about being mature in thinking? (1 Corinthians 14:20, 21)
Paul adds to his point by introducing a difference between children and adults (v. 20). It is OK to have a childlike innocence when it comes to malice (evil), but it is not OK to be childish regarding the matter at hand. It was time the Corinthians started thinking like adults on this subject. In verse 21, Paul cited a shortened version of Isaiah 28:11, 12 to help the Corinthians grasp the true intent of tongues (see also Deut. 28:49). Isaiah had prophesied that God would use foreigners, the Assyrians, to try to teach the wayward Israelites a lesson. Based on what Paul said next, his point seems to be this: just as the Assyrians' foreign speech failed to turn the Israelites to the Lord, so speaking in tongues would fail to help convert unbelievers.
Perhaps some have the idea that speaking in a tongue is an evidence of spiritual maturity, but Paul taught that it is possible to exercise the gift in an unspiritual and immature manner.
What has helped you grow most from spiritual childishness to maturity? What can you do to help others in this regard?
Selflessness | Personal holiness | Scripture knowledge | Prayer habits
5.How does Paul differentiate the benefit of tongues from prophecy? (1 Corinthians 14:22-25)
Paul stated that tongues-speaking was a miraculous 'sign' (1 Corinthians 14:22) that God used to authenticate His spokespersons to the unsaved (when interpreted 1 Cor. 14:27, 28). In contrast, the Lord primarily intended prophesying for the benefit of Jesus' followers. The apostle described a situation in which unbelievers and the uninformed visited a Christian worship service. If all the participants were speaking in tongues, the visitors would understand nothing and would think they were seeing madness, like the mania that was a part of some pagan religious rituals commonplace in that day (v. 23). In this case, speaking in tongues would be a sign in a negative sense. It would confirm the inquirers' spiritual lostness by repelling them from the Christian fellowship. Next, Paul described another situation in which unbelievers and the uninformed visited a worship service while Christians were prophesying (v. 24). In this case, the inquirers would understand the message, be convicted of their sin, and turn to God in repentance and worship (v. 25). So, prophecy would be a sign in a positive sense. It would cause the visitors to recognize the Father's presence and tum their lives over to the Son.
What safeguards can the church adopt to ensure orderly participation when a worship service includes an open time of 'sharing'?
Talking Points for Your Discussion
Before-the-fact policy to prevent problems | Small Groups
After-the-fact intervention to correct ongoing problems
6.What does Paul say is needed in worship service to edify the body of Christ? (1 Corinthians 14:26)
Now Paul focused more specifically on the worship practices of the believers in Corinth. He gave many instructions, but his main point in all of them was that orderliness should characterize Christian worship. The corporate gatherings typically included a variety of elements, such as singing, teaching, revelations, speaking in tongues, and the interpretation of tongues. All these elements of the service were good. However, the apostle's readers needed a reminder that the aim of whatever they did was to be the spiritual upbuilding of the church (1 Cor. 14:26). 'For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace' (1 Corinthians 14:33).
The Corinthian church was having special problems with disorders in their public worship (1 Cor. 11:17-23). The reason is not difficult to determine: some were using their spiritual gifts to please themselves and not to help their brethren. The key word was not edification, but exhibition. In 1 Corinthians 14, Paul taught that tongues-speaking during a worship service, if uninterpreted, does nothing to, build up the church. The reason is that no one in the congregation can understand what is being said. Therefore, the apostle revealed it was better to proclaim God's truth in language that everyone can understand.
Paul's objective was to encourage believers to identify ways to create a group worship experience that is edifying. Yet, in order for this to happen, we must be willing to put the concerns and interests of others first. Sadly, though, many professing Christians unconsciously center their lives on themselves. They judge things as good or bad depending on how these things affect them. Their own needs and desires often come first to them.
Such people attend church for what they can get out of it. They give money and time either out of obligation or for self-glorification rather than the desire to build others up spiritually. Their prayers alternate between complaints over their difficult circumstances and petitions that they might have the gratification of their wants.
Self-centeredness and spirituality, however, are incompatible. Before we can hope to live for the Savior and edify others, we have to put self in proper perspective. That will occur only when we surrender to the lordship of the Son. When Jesus is the focus of our worship and fellowship, His body will be healthy, we will be fruitful as God's representatives in this world, and we will be one in His Spirit.
Building Up the Church
Paul's sage advice 'Let all things be done unto edifying' (v. 26) can be used in many situations. It challenges us to evaluate our church activities by a simple question: Does it build up the church or tear it down?
Consider how this test applies to your own church and how you relate to it on a personal level. What issues are important to you? music styles? preaching methods? Sunday school options? Do you want changes to suit your own preferences? When does voicing your preferences cross the line from building up the church to tearing it down?
These are hard questions! We move toward the right answers when we realize that the abiding value of 1 Corinthians 14 is not so much doctrinal instruction about the gift of speaking in tongues but about how we understand the priority of edification in the church.
Heavenly Father, may we love the church as much as You do. May we resist selfishness as we seek to build up others within our congregation. May You bless our church as You give it unity and a clarity of purpose. In the name of Jesus, amen.
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A long time ago, I was working with a therapist who used hypnosis to try to cull information from my subconscious. I was very focused at that time on answering the big question: will I ever become a wife and mother? In one particular session, while under hypnosis, my therapist suggested that I try to "see" what that might look like.
I saw myself sitting in a field of tall grass and wild flowers. I was lying back against a man's chest. I turned my head upwards to see his face, but I couldn't quite get a glimpse. When I looked forward again, there was a small child, with long blonde hair, skipping around. The sun was shining brightly, casting a yellow haze across the sky.
Back in my normal state of consciousness, I felt oddly relieved, as if something had settled down inside of me. I walked over the bridge of my subconscious mind to a place that wasn't exactly real, but that felt true – as if a force, that understood something that I didn't, guided me there to witness that which I most deeply desired. That force? The guide? It was the Empress, the fourth of the Major Arcana cards of the Tarot.
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It is said that the Tarot doesn't tell your future – it helps you create your future by accessing inner wisdom that leads to transformation. And that is exactly what happened to me. I discovered yoga and encountered some very special teachers, each of whom held up a mirror to my soul. They taught me to ask questions, to think differently and to go beyond what I thought was possible on every level – physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Time passed and I met a man – a man who smiled so brightly that I wanted to follow him around wherever he went. There was something familiar about him, as if I knew him. My younger self never would have believed that our meeting could have been the result of knowledge I already possessed about my future because I, like so many of us, was acculturated to disconnect from any possibility of divine intervention.
But I came to realize the spiritual truth – that there is something greater than my own individual consciousness that connects us all.
God. The higher Self. The Universe. The Force. Love.
It doesn't matter what it is called. I just know it exists, and I have proof. The man I eventually married, the man who became the father of my child, is the man who was there with me in the field that day.


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One of the easiest ways to spend a few hours fishing without the hassle of preparing the boat or fighting nasty seas, yet giving you excellent saltwater fishing, is to go to either of the two ocean piers in the southern Palm Beach County region.
Area fishermen are fortunate to have some of the most productive piers in south Florida. The Lake Worth Municipal Fishing Pier and the Deerfield Beach Municipal Fishing Pier are both outstanding facilities. Jutting prominently into the Atlantic, they seem to be challenging the sea while at the same time offering a safe, convenient vantage point for fishing and relaxing.
Extending several hundred feet into the ocean, piers offer shore-bound anglers a chance at fish from 2 ounces to 200 pounds. A few of the more popular ones are snapper, snook, tarpon, mackerel, pompano, kingfish and bluefish. Most of the fish are migrating varieties, so you`ll want to time your trips to correspond with times when your favorite ones are hitting. And if you just want to get away from life`s tensions, then it really doesn`t matter what`s being caught.
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He had a ball, and so can you. And you don`t even need your own equipment. Tackle is available at a nominal fee, along with all the bait and advice needed to make the day a success.
Those preferring to use their own tackle will do well to follow Wagner`s advice. ``I find a medium-action spinning rod of 7 to 8 feet fine for just about all situations. Spinning reels should be of sufficient capacity to hold at least 200 yards of 15-pound-test line or heavier,`` he said. ``I watch people trying to fish with monster reels and try to make them do everything. Or they do the same thing with a very small reel. It`s a bummer for them.`` These specifications can vary according to the your degree of skill or how much money you want to spend. They are merely guidelines.


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The Marathon run!
When the going is rough, only the tough gets going! Isn't that right? Well, you may not be tough at all times, but I assure you, that if there is a good reason for you to get going or if there is no choice, you find yourself on the go. This is true for people with high adversity quotients, but people with very low adversity quotients, might end up to be down and broken in spirit, and simply quit the race, if it were an Olympic marathon run.
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INT: Factory Girl
I can't imagine a more suitable actress chosen to embody the role of the 60's quintessential pop culture icon Edie Sedgwick, other than pop culture's fashion 'IT' girl of the moment, Sienna Miller. Not only do they share a striking esthetic resemblance but their extraordinary styles have captivated the world and branded them as bona fide, influential trendsetters. What's even more impressive is Guy Pearce's flawless impersonation and uncanny resemblance to the infamous, artistic provocateur Andy Warhol. Miller and Pearce team up as the dazzling Sedgwick and Warhol to recreate the glamorous, intriguing and heartbreaking story of an unusual friendship that sparked a great but brief fire only to burn out too soon in Manhattan during the iconic and reckless period of the 60's, in the upcoming film FACTORY GIRL.
Miller and Pearce immerse quite impressively into their characters and actualize a friendship between two lonely and emotionally scarred people who fed off of each other's fabulousness thus justifying their crave for a fame that fed their empty souls. Fashionista Miller is stunning as the timeless beauty Sedgwick who inspired the Twiggy waif look and the handsome Pearce is quite remarkable in his transformation into the multi dimensional and icy Warhol. Together they were joined by Emmy award winning director George Hickenlooper to talk us about their experiences in making a period film based on a tragic and true story of consequential icons that continue to impact our world today. Check out what they had to say.
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Everyone knows about Andy Warhol as an icon in the 60's but Edie's fairly unknown to most people. Why should people care about Edie Sedgwick?
Guy Pearce (GP): That's why people should care because they don't know enough about her so they can actually learn something about her.
Sienna Miller (SM): I mean the way that I see it is that she was really in the spotlight for only two years and she's managed to affect my generation today and there's something really extraordinary about somebody to that kindness. That's why there must be something more to her than being a socialite. I look at her, and some of her outfits and she's so 80's in a way. She was so forward thinking with kind of pre-empting the reality TV that we're so obsessed with today. I just think she was kind of a performance artist. She has a magnetism that Marilyn Monroe has or Audrey Hepburn has but she just destroyed herself.
George Hickenlooper (GH): I think it's one of those inevitable things. I think she's certainly iconic but she's underground figure. I think it's sort of her passion, her need to be loved, her ability to love and shine so brightly in her time, being in the right place at the right time with Andy Warhol. I think people aren't just attracted to her because of her fashion like Twiggy but she's iconic because of the passion she had for life, and her desire to love and be loved. And also that's why I wanted to make the film. I wasn't interested in Andy, I was really interested in the love story.
How does she continue to affect people today?
SM: Well for example John Galiano based an entire collection of Dior on her two years ago. That's like a major house, not that that's necessarily anything but people are so inspired by her and the way that she dressed and danced. She was this figure that was so intriguing and to have that last so long, obviously she had something going on.
Sienna, you have well surpassed your 15 minutes of fame and if Edie was alive today and you were friends with her today what would you say to her and do you think that you could be friends with her today?
SM: It's a hard question because in a way I feel like I am friends with her today because I've been with this project for two years now when we were developing the script and talking about the script and trying to find the money to make the script. I never really thought about it but I find her fascinating. Having read as much as I've read about her, I really empathize with her, why she turned out the way she did and with the right circumstances she could have really become a Marilyn Monroe or something like her. I'd like to think that we would be friends. I feel like I understand her a little bit, I don't know...it's a difficult question to answer.
Sienna, can you talk about he emotional scene at the end when you confront Andy Warhol and if that was a draining experience for you. How did George help you prepare for that scene?
SM: That was a really intimidating scene because that it was actually our second day of shooting of the movie. It just so happens with schedules sometimes work out like that and I was obviously nervous about it. I didn't know anyone. In a way that helped with the feeling of vulnerability and what George has is an amazing ability to do for me is to create an environment that's very safe and trusting so that you feel you have the ability to go as far as you want to go and it's never too far. He's very embracing of an act of journey and he just sort of made me feel protected and reassured and comforted and encouraged constantly. It really helped to be devoted like that because you feel like you want to do well for that person.
GH: Sienna really immersed herself in that role as very emotional. I remember watching the first take and being moved to tears, I mean pretty much everyone on the set was. It was such a challenge for her being the second day and the schedule was very tough and very grinding. It was just about taking the time and making sure that we were both comfortable and that Guy was comfortable with what we were doing. I think that's the best thing a director can do. Given my background in documentaries, it's allowing it to unfold and happen. Both Guy and Sienna were so instrumental not only in rehearsals but also in the process of working on the script substantially and for me it's sort of sit back and watch and try to keep everything in balance.
At the end of the film there were a lot of additions that needed to be made. Can you talk about that?
GH: Basically, this film was very difficult to finance. Holly [Wiersma] and I were very passionate about having Sienna but she's not Meryl Streep so it's not easy to get financing but we were able to get financing with Guy but we were still unable to raise much money. We were supposed to raise $8 million but they kept cutting the budget and underselling. So [Captain] Mauzner and I had to cut pages out and we had to cut out the final scene and so it was always our intention to go back and come to NY and when we were going to do that.
So it was depended on who was going to buy the film and a lot of things. Once Harvey [Weinstein] bought the film, we knew we wanted to go back and also with additional shooting you usually look at the picture. So we had these 10 pages we wanted to shoot and everyone had ideas - I had ideas, Sienna had ideas, Guy had ideas, Harvey had ideas so these 10 pages turned into 35 pages. Then Guy had to become available and Sienna had other movies and they weren't available. This is the truth. I know page six was sharpening their knives and claiming the trouble factor which irritated me. It was irritating for all of us.
SM: We shot this movie in Treeport, Louisiana and we had an incredible production designer but it's not easy to have Louisiana double for NY because it doesn't have as much character so once Harvey came on board and offered us the opportunity to shoot, exteriors here and some scenes in Central Park, it was just perfect.
GH: Absolutely, it was a time issue and we didn't wrap until December 12th.
As a film maker do you operate well under that kind of pressure?
GH: I always work well under pressure but it wasn't just me. It was Guy, Sienna, all of us. It was a very much collaborative effort and certainly Harvey but it was all in the great spirit of collaboration. Harvey was very passionate about the project and very supportive of Guy, Sienna and me. We were working around the clock late on a 20 hr day for three weeks but we just ran out of time you know. It was just time, we ran out of time.
Shouldn't you have just waited?
GH: We could have waited but the perception would be "Oh boy! What's going on guys, where's Factory Girl?" When in fact it was simply filmmakers making a film under an incredible deadline.
Sienna, what did you learn about this relationship between Edie and the musician who were two complete opposites?
SM: Guy, George and I became great friends with a lot of people who knew Andy including Edie's brother and her husband Michael Post and the funny thing is that everyone has different accounts of what happened. You have to remember that this is a period of time when a lot of people were doing a lot of drugs and so they don't remember. I don't even remember that decade. Some people say nothing happened at all and some say it absolutely did happen and he was the love of her life. I was watching The Queen the other day and no one really knows what happened the week after Princess Diana died but people in movies take a crated license...it's a rumor that we've heard from valuable sources is true and valuable sources is not true so I think it was interesting and I think it was actually a beautiful story.
Can you talk about the Bob Dylan issue?
GH: Bob Dylan? Lawsuit?
SM: There's no lawsuit.
GH: I think he was a concerned that his character is portrayed as suicidal which isn't the case at all. I think his character is very sympathetic to Edie.
SM: But it was all exaggerated within the press. There was no lawsuit filed.
GH: Legal letters were served.
SM: And it's absolutely all fine now and Harvey is even producing the new Bob Dylan biopic [I'm Not There] with Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger. So there's no bad blood.
But Bob Dylan did a screen test right?
SM: He did do a screen test, yes.
Sienna, with your great personal sense of style, how involved were you with recreating Edie's look and did you get to keep any of the the clothing items?
SM: I honestly loved absolutely every single item of clothing and am still battling with the producer to find it because I haven't even gotten a leotard. That's something I'm working on very hard. We had an incredible costume designer, John Dunn who's amazing. We were very lucky to have people that were willing to come on board just because it was such an interesting subject matter so I really didn't feel the need to collaborate at all with such a genius. He collected some amazing vintage pieces and then copied some of Edie's clothes and earrings. So that was great. It was really fun dressing up definitely but I didn't feel the need to intervene at all.
What did you all feel you particularly wanted to put in the film about Edie's life?
GH: Well I think we discovered we wanted to know more about Edie's past and the family. I think we wanted to take a little more time building Andy and Edie's relationship by showing them in Central Park and on the phone.
SM: I mean it's just ultimately that we're making a story where a lot of people say to me "Why Edie? Who cares?" At the end of the day, people see her as a very wealthy girl, from a privileged background who took too many drugs and died at 28. But actually once you understand the psychology behind why she was motivated to become a drug addict and why she is still impacting my generation today, you will understand there is more to her than people presume to be. So I think it's just a question of trying to make her sympathetic and to understand her and also the relationship between her and Andy which was actually a very loving and close relationship for a while, in order to understand the sadness at the end when they kind of fall apart.
Andy Warhol seems to be the villain unlike the Bob Dylan musician character. He seems to be responsible for building her up, exploiting her and allowing her to fall apart. What do you think about that Guy and do you see a love story between them Sienna?
SM: The film opens in the movie something like "someone i the 60's affected me more than anyone" and it was a very fond and loving quote. But then we were lucky enough to have Brigid Berlin who was a great friend of Andy's used to tape all of their phone conversations, and we have certain tape conversations where Brigid tells Andy that Edie died. And I think once you listen to that you kind of understand that I think he really did care is really your question but he had an inability to emotionally attach. When you hear the phone conversation he almost cares then there's a big pause and then he says "Who gets all the money and what are you doing today?" It's very interesting. He has a fear and inability to attach.
GP: Yeah I just think he was somebody who was incredibly sensitive, almost too sensitive. I think you need to look at the film a little more deeply than just assuming that he's the villain I suppose. I think that's a very typical response for audience members unfortunately in this day in age and clearly there's a lot more to the relationship than I was clearly able to portray for you. I think for Andy what he saw in Edie was a number of things. It wasn't just that he was a manipulator, a passive aggressive manipulator.
But that's what the Dylan's character says to Edie, that Andy is exploiting her and that she's not getting paid for anything and that she's just a disposable thing...
GP: Yeah and he doesn't understand Andy very well either. That's just his point of view but not necessarily the point of view of the film. I think that really the relationship goes very, very deep but unfortunately I think because of the personalities of both of these people they were really unable to come and help each other actually. It was a bad time, Edie was really unable to help herself and Andy was rally unable to kind of help her because he was sort of tortured by his own inability to actually become intimate with people that really his fascination with human psychology and really extreme human psychology kind of meant that he was rude to people that came to him who were particularly troubled.
Then on some level I think that really began to rely on him but he made it really safe to claim as far as being able to be that person to rely on. I think Andy on some level ends up being seen as sort of a...I mean, we tend to sort of project myths upon people and I think Andy has unfortunately received a lot of negativity as far as being responsible for the demise of a lot people. I think a lot of those people would have self-destructed anyway even if they didn't join in life. So it's an interesting little dynamic between the two definitely but I think it's a fairly narrow perspective to assume that Andy is the villain in the story.
GH: I certainly agree with Guy. I think he was passive aggressive to some degree but I think he was very much in love with Edie.... Andy Warhol was quoted as saying that "the one woman I ever was in love with was Taxi" which was his nickname for her. One reason I made this film was when I first heard the script idea, I knew quite a bit about Andy Warhol and knew very little about Edie Sedgwick. In fact the only reference I had ever heard of Edie Sedgwick was from a radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. What interested me was that when I read this script there was this love story between two people who share the same dynamic in terms of the relationship, not only with each other but also with their families.
They were both estranged. Edie was abused by her father and emotionally estranged by him. Andy lived with his mother and had a close physical proximity to each other but his mother constantly hounded him to get married and have children and Andy was a homosexual. So I think that inability for the mother to accept Andy on his terms, it feels kind of as abandonment. I think when you have two children who are abandoned by their parents, they're drawn to each other because the past is needed to repeat the cycle of abandonment.
This was all deep psychological stuff. In the case of Edie and Andy, metaphors for what's happened to our fragmented culture. We've become so fragmented that the nuclear family sort of doesn't exist anymore so I think there's sort of correlation being sort of a broad term between that and the going exponential rate of entertainment shows and celebrity gossip because you use this as kind of healing medication. I think Andy and edie were looking to be loved and to find love. Andy wanted to be famous but it was more about finding that secure sense of self that he never got from his mother and that Edie never got form her father. I know this is deep but those are the reasons I made the movie. It wasn't because she was a great style icon.
Can you talk about the specific insights you got from Edie's family members and if you spoke to Kyra [Sedgwick[ as well?
SM: I didn't, I actually met Kyra at Sundance. I sort of thought I mean people knew we were making the film and if they offered their advice then I was going to take it but I didn't want to press or force anyone into talking. A lot of people had different accounts of the same events. I think the overwhelming thing that I got was that she was very lonely and had a desperate need to be loved. Everything that she did sort was gotten by futility and vulnerability. I think she did find it hard to exist in reality because reality for her hadn't been a very safe place. Her parent's way of dealing with drama when she was younger was to give her a valium so of course drugs would seem like a natural escape from an unhappy time. But you know overall everyone said that she just was a loving, warm person that just couldn't believe that she just burnt too brightly for this world.
Guy, who did you actually talk to in your research for Andy and what was the most interesting or surprising thing that you learnt about him in your research?
GP: The most surprising thing is that every second person I've come across claimed that they knew him which kind of tells me something about Andy himself. I spoke to a number of people and some in greater length than others. I met with Gerard Malanga and Sam Green was very helpful for us on the film and lots of people were coming down and showing us photographs. Primarily the two people for me really were Brigid Berlin and Vincent Fremont. Vincent worked with Andy from '68-'69 and Brigid new Andy from the early- mid 60's.
[What helped us was] to have access to the recorded phone conversations between Brigid and Andy which got to the point that it was fascinating all the people that we met because as Sienna said, everybody had a different account and different perspective on it. Even the people who knew Andy all kind of have different opinions as we all do with everybody. You'll meet one person who'll say he's fantastic and the next person will say he's horrible. So eventually you have to kind of just let that stuff go because it doesn't actually matter to me what everyone's opinion actually was. What I was trying to do was work form the inside out.
So really what became valuable to me and really got anything out of and worked for myself was the audio texts where you really hear Andy and brigid for hours and hours and hours talking about all sorts of stuff. Just really getting and insight to his emotional direction I suppose and as well as for Sienna you know there were other recordings. So there's all these phone recordings and just hearing the conversation between the two and then hearing the direction of my kike and hearing Andy perhaps get a little bit antsy about something and try to sort of get control again and hearing Edie throwing in a new idea about this film and Andy not wanting to do that.
Just hearing how they respond to each other I think is probably the most vital stuff that we kind of work from 'cause that's the stuff that we're actually doing you know. So it really was a wonderful exploration into their lives through the media and all the various forms of recordings that they had. And meeting everybody and talking to everybody kind of took it out of the mythical and into reality. You know to sit there with Brigid on Christmas day and on Thanksgiving day and all of the days we had luncheons and dinners and just time we've spent with her primarily just as the phone make it realistic rather than sort of mythical you know. I mean Andy's still a myth in a way although he died 20 years ago but it's a really odd experience - a strange experience to kind of play somebody who's sort of recently been around in a way and to still get to spend time with people who were his close friends. It's very odd but it was fascinating.
George, can you talk about the challenges of making a film about such an iconic period that took place back then and did you focus more on the romantic, mythic elements of it rather than the direct reality?
GH: I personally wasn't so much interested in the fear. I mean the 60's was sort of done to death in the movies and I didn't want to spend a lot of time on Vietnam or civil rights. We wanted to allude to them a little bit but not make a hubbub about it because there's a cliche. Jeremy [Reed] is a fantastic production designer and worked mostly from photographs. There's a book called "Life of Andy Warhol" and Guy had it. We all went through it and actually created some of the photographs. We were really fascinated with the composition of those photos and Andy was really different. People considered him as ugly but actually I find him extremely handsome. I mean he had skin problems but in that era he was not bad looking and Guy of course is very handsome in every which way.
GP: Thank you, than you very much. (laughing)
GH: I wasn't obsessed with [the era]..... and the props. For me it was about the character.
Guy, would you be interested in doing White Jazz or a sequel to LA Confidential if they asked you to join in on it?
GP: It's been mentioned to me yeah. I haven't read the script yet and I kind of have to base it on that. It's a difficult question to answer. I ultimately don't feel hugely compelled to revisit a character I played before necessarily but having said that it would purely have to depend on how it was realized I guess.
How do you think the 60's and the political background of the time shaped and influenced these characters and what does it say about today? Is it important for us to look at the film in terms of any similarities with our era?
SM: We all had a different opinion of what was important to each of us about the story. I mean George was coming from a different point of view than I was coming from. I personally think that the 60's played a huge part on the way people were especially what was going on. It was a huge revolutionary moment. It was a specifically liberating time and the whackier you were the more embraced you were. So I think people really pushed the boundaries and I think that was a fed up to Vietnam. I'm fascinated by the 60's, I think it's a wonderful decade and so to me that was very important.
GH: I think it's important you had that point of view regarding Edie because there was something fresh in 1965 about those mottos you know...people were trying to do something exciting and different and that's what it was all about. I personally think the 60's is over-romanticized and for me I thought that the arch of the story really embodied with the 60's was fresh and exciting but it became more and more destructive and self-indulgent. I don't romanticize the 60's. I think it was liberating but I think it was far more corrosive to our culture than helpful.
That's why I think the divorce rate, the familization of our culture, the sexualization of our culture all stems from the 60's. It also turned into a thoughtless, selfish 'I'm okay, you're okay.' I think that's where love fails and the divorce rate...I remember my mom was a political activist and she was always running around with the Black Panthers and the Farm Workers when I was seven years old. I remember a very different view. For her it was all about her saving the world but hey, what about her children you know? I don't jump on the bandwagon but I don't think the 60's were great. I think they were more destructive than productive.
What about your reflections of that period today?
GH: I think ultimately the 60's goes with the idea's at the times kind of what we saw in the French revolution. It was all about the idealized culture and everyone's got their head cut off and turned into a somewhat corrupt republic. I think the same thing happened in the 60's where they idealized Vietnam and then people got cynical and sort of the greed of the 80's was kind of a cynical reaction to the period of the 60' and that's continued to the 90's. Now the world is different. We're completely defined by 9/11 now. Everything that happened in the 20th century is kind of irrelevant to what's going on now.
With Edie's mother saying she had higher hopes for Edie, do you think that the movie is almost condemning the idea of being famous for 15 minutes because what happened in the 60's seems to have mushroomed into a nationalistic pursuit today with reality shows?
GP: I think it's more questioning it rather than condemning it. We never really discussed the idea or I don't feel that we're sort of trying to condemn them. I think naturally in raising the question probably somewhere in the back of everybody's mind they're going "What is it with all this fine culture and reality TV?" We all have a strangely negative feeling about it but at the same time we are all fascinated by it as well you know. For me personally it wasn't really wanting to jump on any kind of position of concern. I was fascinated by them. I'm fascinated by I suppose personally on some level with Andy - probably the side of reality to it. On some kind of level you look at all these films, he turns the camera on, roll and see what you get. But no, I'm not specifically condemning it.
SM: I think that was the period of time and ultimately they wanted to be famous. That's what they wanted. So I feel Edie's problems are far more deep rooted. I don't think fame really played a part in it. She wasn't famous like fame is today. There weren't paparazzi and there wasn't internet. It was on a much smaller and I think she kind of reveled in that attention and admitted it. There was no shame in that but to me there was just so much more that was interesting to me than this love that she had to be famous and commenting on that. I don't even think there were conflicts on it.
GH: I think if you think on those iconic terms, like we're going to make a comment...you're making movies from the outside in, not from the inside out. For us it was about finding emotional interior of characters and try to keep the spirit of the truth. And all that stuff will fall into place on its own. And I think you have to do that in any movie, otherwise you're just kind of looking at it not from the outside in- kind of backwards. If you want to get any kind of emotional truth, you got to get into who the people are and then the actions will follow and then you'll end up dealing with things like famous for 15 minutes. But you start to make comments like that it just becomes didactic and dull.
How does Edie's style affect your style and what were some of your favorite pieces that she wore?
GP: Knickers, you love the knickers (laughs)
SM: I love the knickers, that's it (laughs). The irony is that Edie used to do this jazz ballet and that was her exercise. So everyday she put on her tights and leotards and she danced around her apartment and that's how she kept trim. And then she wouldn't change and so she put a peacoat over the top and go out. And then everyone followed and copied this look so it was a totally inadvertent thing that caught on.
I think I'm really influenced by the 60's in general. My parents were kind of big 60's kids...so I always found what was going on inspiring - hence my flowery clothes I think. I sort of loved every single outfit. I can't think of one thing I didn't love. It was just such an original way of dressing. I've looked at some of the photos of Edie and some of them could be in the 80's you know. that was the genius of the pieces that they were so far ahead of her time and she was so timeless. I love the dresses and all the earrings. People lent us all sorts of jewelry and it was great.
Is it true that you Sienna and Guy would dress up as Edie and Andy and go out in disguise in preparation for the film?
SM: No. one evening we were rehearsing...we were going to go out but we didn't. I mean Guy and I really worked well together luckily and I think it was important the dynamic between these two characters and really compatible in our approach to work and we both felt a huge responsibility in portraying these people. We had a lot of fun discussing the characters and having little phone conversations in character ever now and then. He'd call me up form Australia and I'd be in London and he'd go "Edie it's Andy" [in Andy's voice] and we'd have a lovely chat...and because it was fun and it's an interesting way to sort of get to know people to attempt to improvise.
Is that why all those stories came out about you being possessed by the character?
SM: I think that if you're playing someone that existed, you know you have a responsibility to try and immerse yourself in that character. I think if I didn't do that, I wouldn't be serious about my work. I certainly didn't lose myself, I'm far too grounded for that but I did experiment with attending through the emotions of the person's momentary which is a film of acting I chose to dabble in for this role. No heroine, no. Obviously it's very difficult to feel what she felt. I've never been sexually abused, you know, I do not have a problem with drugs and it's really hard to feel that pain if you've had a privileged upbringing like I had. I'm a genuinely happy person and she is really tortured but as a responsibility to her I tried to imagine what she's feeling at these moments in time and it's acting. It's my job to try and immerse myself in a character.