How to be bold
When I was 12 years old, I started taking acting classes in one of the most long-established acting schools of Rio de Janeiro. It is...
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lauramalinauthor
- Dec 22, 2020
- 4 min
And... Action!
My flight departed from Charles de Gaulle early morning on May 17th, 1991. I had a backpack, many expectations, and still nowhere to...
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lauramalinauthor
- Dec 8, 2020
- 3 min
Red Carpet Ready
As I told you in my last post, Laura in Paris, I was able to purchase last minute tickets to the Cannes Film Festival, 1991 edition. I...
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lauramalinauthor
- Nov 24, 2020
- 3 min
Laura in Paris
It was a bright afternoon in Paris, maybe too luminous for my spirits, when I left the small screening room after watching La Strada, by...
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lauramalinauthor
- Oct 6, 2020
- 6 min
Sisterhood
During the winter break of 2008, I decided to spend my only savings by taking a memorable and cheap trip to Chile with one of my best...
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lauramalinauthor
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
What We Wish For...
Ten years ago, confronted with the premature decline of my production company, due to a false rumor (read post Lies that Destroy); and...
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lauramalinauthor
- Aug 18, 2020
- 6 min
Live and Learn
Last week I told you how I met Romain, in an empty movie theater in the North of France, back in 1990. And how we kissed and made plans...
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lauramalinauthor
- Aug 11, 2020
- 4 min
Movie Magic & Love Spell
When I was 16 years old, I spent a year in France as an exchange student. Part of this time I was based in the north of the country, in a...
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lauramalinauthor
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
Forgiveness is Freedom
Do you remember Lex, from last week’s post? The guy who spread around that we had sex in exchange for financing my script? And that led...
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lauramalinauthor
- Jul 28, 2020
- 6 min
Lies That Destroy
One of the biggest barriers in my career has been being a woman. The film and TV market, from which most of my income comes from as a...
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lauramalinauthor
- Jul 7, 2020
- 4 min
Falling in love (with a character!)
I had never felt so desperate to find my inspiration until it was time for me to incorporate the character of Leah, back in 2011. I had...
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lauramalinauthor
- Jun 23, 2020
- 5 min
Life is What Happens!
How do you go from being an aspiring writer to becoming a professional one? I get this question a lot, and I know everybody has a...
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lauramalinauthor
- Jun 2, 2020
- 3 min
Black is the Color
My first doll was dark black, I bought it with my grandma when we went to Florida on a trip, in 1982. Growing up in Brazil in the 80s,...
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lauramalinauthor
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min
Faith or Fate
I was conceived outside of religion lock. My father, descendant of Russian and Romanian Jews; and my mother, the daughter of Catholics,...
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lauramalinauthor
- May 19, 2020
- 3 min
Matriarchy
My daughters will be the fifth generation of higher educated women. I know, we are extremely privileged when so many women are going to...
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lauramalinauthor
- May 12, 2020
- 3 min
My First Love
I first feel in love in my life when I was 15. I was spending the summer in Israel, in a kibbutz. Do you know what a kibbutz is? I...
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lauramalinauthor
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
Roots
Forrest Gump once said that life is like a box of chocolates. Well, mine is just an empty cardboard box, ready to be filled and moved...
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lauramalinauthor
- Apr 28, 2020
- 4 min
Less is More
Yesterday I welcomed a new age. All I could think about was how grateful I am for the year that had just ran its course. During my 45th...
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lauramalinauthor
- Apr 7, 2020
- 6 min
Crisis and Opportunity
Once I read a John F. Kennedy quote about crisis that stuck with me. He said: “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word...
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lauramalinauthor
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
The unbearable lightness of being
This is not the first time in my lifetime that I experience a new universal order of things. It is, most certainly, the biggest shift....
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