Always a Mary Bennet, never an Elizabeth

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.” ~Jane Austen

I was telling a friend of mine my Character Actress analogy and she told me something very profound. Lucille Ball was at first cast in the Leading Lady role in the beginning of her career. More dramatic, more glamorous roles, however, these movies never went over very well. They never made very much money at the box office, until someone put her in the Character Actress role, the comedic role and she flourished; her career took off. I thought that there was a very special lesson to be learned from this story. Some of us are cast in the Leading Lady roles in life and some are cast as the Character Actresses, and once we except our roles and become comfortable in them, we will truly be seen for who we are, then we become the Lead Actresses in our own stories.

I have Iris syndrome.

Arthur Abbott: He let you go. This is not a hard one to figure out. Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend. Iris: You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained anything to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.