Content Preview

Newsday/Optimum Online^® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online^® subscriber? Click here

Fast Chat: Uma Thurman on "The Life Before Her Eyes"

April 9, 2008 By Newsday contributor Joseph V. Amodio

Uma Thurman has always been a standout. Her name, the whole 6-foot-tall thing, those arresting, angular features, all guaranteed she'd get noticed. And she was - first by agents at age 15, then by director Terry Gilliam, who cast her as Venus, her first splashy film role, in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen." Other films followed, some acclaimed ("Les Liaisons Dangereuses"), some not ("Mad Dog...

newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online^® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.