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says “You look beautiful. You must have worn
dresses like this in 1932 before?” And I just
kind of looked at him and said ‘You think so?
You think I have really? As an actor, you think
I’ve done this before?’ He says “Yes. You look
good in everything. You’ve had to have done
this before.” And I said Tom, think about it for
a minute. Then all of a sudden he goes “Oh.
You’re black. You’re not really white. You
wouldn’t have been this kind of woman in
1935
ever right?” So, there were little mo-
ments like that, that said to me, this was so
Based on the bestselling novel by David Mitch-
ell, Cloud Atlas connects characters who meet
and unite from one life to the next over a span
of 500 years. “I was in a costume fitting with
Tom Tykwer, trying to bring Jocasta to life.
And he was bringing out one beautiful dress
after the next. And I’m trying them all on he
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