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"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat"

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Gina Gershon turns something as ordinary as dinner into a character test, and the bluntness is the point. “Feeding” isn’t just eating; it’s caretaking with a little theatrical authority. The word “ritual” upgrades a daily habit into a scene with rules: who shows up, who participates, who lets their guard down. In an industry built on image management and curated appetites, calling feeding “important” reads like a small revolt. It’s a refusal of the starlet mythology that treats hunger as virtue and control as personality.

The second line lands as a social dare. “I don’t trust people who don’t like to eat” is obviously hyperbole, but it’s weaponized in a friendly way: a shortcut for sorting the performative from the present. People who “don’t like to eat” can signal fussiness, judgment, restriction, even a kind of ascetic branding. Gershon frames that as suspicious because eating, especially with others, is messier and more honest. You have to want something. You have to receive. You have to be seen mid-bite, mid-pleasure, mid-need.

There’s also a sensual subtext that fits Gershon’s screen persona: appetite as integrity. Liking food becomes shorthand for being embodied, generous, game. Trust, here, isn’t about morality; it’s about whether someone is willing to engage the world without turning every moment into a performance of restraint.

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Gina Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is a Actress from USA.

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