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Yet neither phase of her rise was quite as straightforward as it appeared.

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DoubtfireriffAlbert Nobbsand the audacious bootlegger epicLawless she exposed what festered below the genteel surfaces of the past.

(Jane Eyreearned her a comparison toIsabelle Huppertin thepages ofTime, her spiritual godmother in prickliness.)

She can do flirty and flighty, as with her wild-child vampire in Jim JarmuschsOnly Lovers Left Alive.

The line sounds tongue-in-cheek, but it earnestly speaks to how little she cares about conforming to expectations.

Slip up and stumble into a crush, and she might just burn your house down.

Or shoot off your kneecaps.

Or stab you in the neck with pruning shears.

Or crush your skull with a shovel.

Or feed on your blood.

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