Now she has worked with director Rachel Fleit to make a documentary, Introducing, Selma Blair, which is the most open, exposing celebrity piece I can ever imagine seeing a work of cinéma vérité. ![]() The fear that I’m just lazy still comes into my mind.” But there was a melancholy of grief, always, and always a grief of isolation because I didn’t last long talking, you know, not knowing I had MS. I was sometimes funny and miserable, and full of love – I’ve never been a hateful person. She would constantly beat herself up about her shortcomings, always seeing herself only as the sidekick part, almost unwilling to try as hard as she could at acting, she says now, or to make herself bigger. ![]() She knows now that a lot of her ambiguities at the time came from all the unexplained pain that she was in. Not that the 49-year-old from Michigan was ever the luxurious, pampered sort of celebrity, remaining more of a cult figure. Spa days looked quite different back in the actor’s Hollywood heyday, when Blair co-starred in films such as Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde, as well as cult hits Hellboy and Storytelling, and played Kim in the American remake of the utterly hilarious Kath & Kim. ‘I love Hollywood and I would love to see it be a changemaker’: Selma wears dress by Dries van Noten. Soon after, she went into isolation, and then the world followed – something she found almost comforting, as if we all got diagnosed together. ![]() I first interviewed her shortly before then, when she was working on the Netflix sci-fi series Another Life, with no idea what lay ahead of her (or the world.) We had lunch at the glamorous Chateau Marmont and cackled about being single mothers with the same bleak sense of humour. It is morning in Los Angeles and Blair needs to conserve energy for the doctor: five hours of plasma treatment at home will follow this interview – part of her regular procedures since having stem-cell treatment for the multiple sclerosis that was diagnosed in 2018. “No, let me finish this joke!” she insists, heading into a wildly funny and absolutely unprintable punchline. S elma Blair is telling me a joke about three tampons walking down the road: heavy flow, medium flow, and light flow, only I’ve been warned by her representatives that she can only do these video chats in half-hour bursts, and we’re heading for minute 40 if I don’t make her stop.
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