"Like everybody I have many different sides"
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A small, almost shruggy sentence that doubles as a defense mechanism. When Juliette Lewis says, "Like everybody I have many different sides", she’s not offering a fun fact about personality; she’s pushing back against the industry’s hunger for a single, marketable version of a person. Actors, especially women, get flattened into an easily sellable silhouette: the ingenue, the wild child, the “intense” one. Lewis has spent a career swerving around those labels, veering from feral charisma in films like Natural Born Killers to bruised vulnerability, to fronting a rock band with the kind of stage presence that refuses polite containment. The line reads like a preemptive strike against the interview question hiding behind it: Which Juliette are you, really?
The cleverness is in how ordinary she makes the claim. “Like everybody” is doing the heavy lifting: it democratizes her complexity and quietly indicts the audience for pretending otherwise. She’s saying, you demand coherence from public figures you don’t demand from yourselves. The phrase “many different sides” is intentionally unspecific, too; it denies the voyeuristic satisfaction of details. No tidy confession, no trauma narrative, no “authentic” core to excavate.
In a culture that treats identity as a brand and inconsistency as a scandal, Lewis reframes multiplicity as the default setting. Not a contradiction to be solved, but a reality to be allowed.
The cleverness is in how ordinary she makes the claim. “Like everybody” is doing the heavy lifting: it democratizes her complexity and quietly indicts the audience for pretending otherwise. She’s saying, you demand coherence from public figures you don’t demand from yourselves. The phrase “many different sides” is intentionally unspecific, too; it denies the voyeuristic satisfaction of details. No tidy confession, no trauma narrative, no “authentic” core to excavate.
In a culture that treats identity as a brand and inconsistency as a scandal, Lewis reframes multiplicity as the default setting. Not a contradiction to be solved, but a reality to be allowed.
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