This was a massive star that lived fast and died young.

You haven't lived until you've died in California

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

Altogether, Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.