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Mena Suvari speaks candidly about being abused and how that led to her relating to her “American Beauty” character in a new interview with the Guardian.
Suvari, who played teenager Angela Hayes in the 1999 film, explains how she suffered years of sexual abuse, starting when she was raped at age 12 by her brother’s older friend.
She was also taught to look “sexy” from a very early age in her acting and modelling career, telling the paper how she was just 12, but looked 18, so therefore was treated like an adult.
Suvari says she thinks older men used her, including a twentysomething photographer who took pictures of her nude, alone at his home, when she was 15.
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One of her business advisers, who was in his mid-30s, also started having sex with her when she was 16, with Suvari telling the publication: “I didn’t have anyone telling me, ‘That’s not right, that person shouldn’t be doing that with you.’”
She also had an abusive relationship with a lighting technician, who encouraged her to have threesomes and have rough sexual experiences that she didn’t want.
Suvari opened up about the abuse she suffered in her memoir The Great Peace, which was released last year.
“I identified with Angela,” Suvari says of her “American Beauty” character.
“I knew how to play that role, because I was so schooled in it. ‘Oh, you want me to be sexually attractive?’ Done. I felt unavailable in a million other ways, but I knew how to play that card.”
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American Beauty was a “respite” from the abusive relationship she was involved with at the time.Directed by Sam Mendes, the 1999 movie stars Suvari as Angela, the 17-year-old friend of Jane Burnham (Thora Birch) whose father, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), becomes infatuated with her.Speaking to The Guardian about the role, Suvari said: “I identified with Angela. I knew how to play that role, because I was so schooled in it.
The Guardian, the "American Beauty" actress claims she was "manipulated" by a former partner into having sexual relationships with him and other women. "[When I ran into one of those women years later], I said, 'I want you to know that I never wanted to do any of those things,'" the "Six Feet Under" alum recalled. "She was surprised. She said, 'Oh, he told me you wanted to do that.' It was a huge eye-opener for me, how I was being manipulated and I had no idea.
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