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Olivia Williams: ‘I didn’t like being a young actor. Now I know the score’

Olivia Williams
David Bebber / The Times

The British actress’s new film Maps to the Stars is a searing satire on the vitriol and vanity of Hollywood. Guess what, she says, it’s all completely true

The most shocking thing about the scabrous new Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars is its portrait of the Tinseltown elite as a vile bestiary of drugged-up, back-stabbing, sexually deviant and morally bankrupt sociopaths. The thing is, says one of the film’s stars, Olivia Williams, it’s all true. “Yes, this film is grotesque, and staggering, and highly offensive in places,” says the 46-year-old actress, who cut her teeth on blockbuster fare such as The Sixth Sense and The Postman, “but nothing happens in it that I haven’t heard of personally from people I know. It’s seeing it acted out that’s

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Maps to the stars - Official Trailer

Trailer of David Cronenberg’s Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars

2014-09-25 00:01:00.0

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