{"id":517,"date":"2006-08-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/08\/catherine-keener-wouldbe-pries.html"},"modified":"2006-08-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T12:00:00","slug":"catherine-keener-wouldbe-pries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/08\/catherine-keener-wouldbe-pries.html","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Keener, Would-Be Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indie film star Catherine Keener–known for her character acting<\/a> in such cinema favorites as “Capote,” “Being John Malkovich,” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”–was just interviewed for the New York Times Fall Fashion issue. In “Being Catherine Keener,”<\/a> Keener spills all to interviewer Lynn Hirschberg about how Catholicism has influenced her film career, including her thoughts on how being an actor is like being a priest: “Playing so many characters in so many films is a way to be in the moment. That was, to me, growing up Catholic, the appeal of the clergy–they address the moment. So, short of being a priest, I am an actor.”<\/p>\n

Other interesting tidbits from the piece:<\/p>\n

I still love anything connected to nuns. That\u2019s why I love all of Yohji Yamamoto\u2019s designs–they look like a nun\u2019s habit, and if I had my way, I\u2019d always dress like a nun. As a girl, I saw every movie with nuns: \u201cThe Trouble With Angels,\u201d \u201cThe Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima.\u201d I saw them all. I love the nun\u2019s lifestyle: the quiet, the solitude. But then I realized they were subservient to priests, and I decided I wanted to be a priest. That\u2019s when the trouble began. I desperately wanted to be an altar boy, and I stole a bag of unconsecrated wafers. They weren\u2019t yet the body of Christ, but they were delicious. That was the first of my many run-ins with Catholic law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And:<\/p>\n

How does Catholicism relate to show business?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, there is something about Catholicism that is both theatrical and pure, and movies can have that quality. There are other benefits to Catholicism: you grow up with a great sense of shame and hope and faith and na\u00efvet\u00e9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And apparently, at least if you happen to be a girl, you grow up with creative ideas about how to be priestly without actually having to be a boy or an actual Catholic priest.<\/p>\n

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