Ezra Petronio

there a shift. I don’t know if it’s psychosomatic, or what, but I feel like in my late thirties I was looking really good and now I’m on the decline. And it makes all the rest of the stuff that goes with being an actress a lot harder. A lot more insecurity, a lot more anxiety.’

Hang on a minute: this is Chloë Sevigny, labelled the Coolest Girl in the World by The New Yorker magazine when she was just 19 years old, hanging out with Lower East Side skaters and playing a young HIV-positive woman in the controversial cult movie Kids. Who then starred in The Last Days of Disco, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Boys Don’t Cry and gave Vincent Gallo a blow job in The Brown Bunny. Whose way with vintage finds meant that she created her own deadpan take on the blonde bombshell look: long legs, a scowl and a frilly skirt — the anti-cheerleader.

At the height of Britpop, she dated Jarvis Cocker. In 2012, she did a Miu Miu campaign and became best mates with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon. I don’t actually want her to scroll through Instagram and sigh about cellulite like the rest of us. I want her not to give a damn. Also, she’s acting in American Horror Story: Hotel now, a hilarious TV series of grisly supernatural dramas that has become a massive hit, with Lady Gaga and Naomi Campbell among her co-stars. Sevigny plays a doctor who is also