Brian Damage
08-31-2009, 11:37 PM
http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/claire-danes-danger-high-voltage/10186
While she’s had several serious relationships in the past—she dated Australian indie-pop star Ben Lee for six years and was with [Billy] Crudup for two, just prior to [fiancé Hugh] Dancy—marriage, she says, was never something for which she yearned. “I’ve always wanted to be in a partnership, I’ve always wanted to have that kind of intimacy and collaborate with someone in such a deep way. But I think that can be achieved in a lot of ways. I was talking to my friend recently about monogamy—is it feasible, is it realistic? I resolved that there isn’t really a better model. We just can’t shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it’s also fun.”
If you haven’t been following Claire Danes’s love life over the past decade — and really, why would you — you might have missed the time Billy Crudup left then-7-months-pregnant Mary Louise Parker for her. That was most certainly a display of rigor and discipline and selflessness for the ages.
Then later, she hooked up with Hugh Dancy while she was still in a relationship with Crudup, which sort of serves Crudup right for ditching his pregnant partner of seven years.
This is some juicy stuff right here — I can’t wait until she gets hers in the third act.
While she’s had several serious relationships in the past—she dated Australian indie-pop star Ben Lee for six years and was with [Billy] Crudup for two, just prior to [fiancé Hugh] Dancy—marriage, she says, was never something for which she yearned. “I’ve always wanted to be in a partnership, I’ve always wanted to have that kind of intimacy and collaborate with someone in such a deep way. But I think that can be achieved in a lot of ways. I was talking to my friend recently about monogamy—is it feasible, is it realistic? I resolved that there isn’t really a better model. We just can’t shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it’s also fun.”
If you haven’t been following Claire Danes’s love life over the past decade — and really, why would you — you might have missed the time Billy Crudup left then-7-months-pregnant Mary Louise Parker for her. That was most certainly a display of rigor and discipline and selflessness for the ages.
Then later, she hooked up with Hugh Dancy while she was still in a relationship with Crudup, which sort of serves Crudup right for ditching his pregnant partner of seven years.
This is some juicy stuff right here — I can’t wait until she gets hers in the third act.