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Actress Chloe Sevigny Talks About Her Career, Her Role in Film, ‘Lean on Pete’ at Avon Theatre Q&A

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Actress and former Darien resident Chloe Sevigny, with her mother in the audience, answered questions from a sold-out crowd Saturday night at Avon Theatre, talking about her career in film and in particular about the movie Lean on Pete, in which she plays a jockey. When someone from the audience complimented her on her horsemanship and seemed to assume that Sevigny had become familiar with horses in Fairfield County, the actress corrected that impression:

“I had zero experience with horses,” before making the movie, she said. “My family tended to drift towards the water and water sports.” Lean on Pete is about a 15-year-old boy with a disruptive family life who gets involved by chance in the lowest rung of the horse racing business. His involvement starts when a down-at-heels horse owner, played by Steve Buscemi, offers him a job working with a racehorse named Lean on Pete.

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Actor Chloe Sevigny Talks Again About Growing Up in Darien, This Time Not as Harshly

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Five years after actor Chloe Sevigny dumped scorn on her hometown of Darien, she and a writer from “T” magazine, the New York Times fashion newspaper supplement, paid a visit to the town talk about her childhood. This time the criticism is vaguer and less harsh. The (fawning) article includes several pictures of various Darien landmarks, sometimes with Sevigny in the picture: Weed Beach, Middlesex Middle School, Puritan Stationery, Post Corner Pizza. She also was hanging out in New Canaan during those years, so there are pictures of her at a Mobil gas station and Waveny mansion, too. In this story there isn’t a quote blasting the town equivalent to some of the quotes she gave in an interview with the British newspaper, The Independent, in May 2012.