The Fun Zone
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Trench Dries Van Noten’s floral, bubble-sleeve coat, $1,800
Belts dark-green silk cord,$512 each (two shown)
Brooches plastic flower, $695 (green), and $1,075 (clear) clutch dark-green, silk, framed, $2,040 pumps black suede, peep-toe, $1,005, all Lanvin
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[“Iron Man”] was the most fun I’ve ever had on set. I loved the fact that I worked with people like Jon Favreau and Peter Billingsley. And to be on the same set as Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow! My scene is actually one very, very long scene, [but] with editing, you don’t know if you’re going to end up in a film. “Death Valley,” as they call it, is the editing room. Fortunately, I stayed in. I’m a reporter so I’m reporting on the destruction that’s going on. Robert Downey Jr.’s character is watching me on television.
I’m still on “General Hospital” as a contract player. [She plays nurse Leyla Mir.] … It’s the best work atmosphere I’ve ever been in. It’s like a second family, though I do have a passion for film and my ultimate goal is to make movies.
I was born in Iran, but because of the [1979] Iranian Revolution, we were political refugees. It’s always kind of been a struggle as far as growing up second generation from an Iranian family in England.
[Iran] wasn’t a great place to raise a child at that time, so [my parents] absolutely did the right thing. And the thing that’s heartbreaking is that they left behind so much, including family—their parents, siblings—to face this unsettled future in England, with nothing. We lived in one room in a basement of a bed-and-breakfast for a long time. ... It was a tough upbringing, but ... I had great role models.
When the revolution happened, [my parents] found themselves between a rock and a hard place. My father, for example, doesn’t think that government and religion should mix. I don’t either. I’m a big supporter of democracy. There are a lot of Jews and a lot of Christians in Iran, and if you’re forcing women to wear an Islamic veil in Iran, you’re disregarding the religious rights of Christians, Jews, and all other non-Muslim Iranians. Angelina Jolie [did] an interview and she talked about Brad Pitt giving her an entire library of different books from different religions, and [how] they’re going to raise their kids by teaching them all these different religions. I think that’s beautiful.