One of those nadirs came at a moment that should have been her greatest triumph, the filming of Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential, with John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston and Max Minghella, in Los Angeles.
You can't wing it for 10 years.
I mention to her that, although she has been landing enviable parts for the better part of a decade, she has often been the redeeming factor in some productions that have, let's say, been unenthusiastically received by the fourth estate.