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Lara Flynn Boyle Is Back on the Big Screen, But Don’t Call It a Comeback: “I Never Went Anywhere”​

The 51-year-old actress opens up in a lengthy (and rare) interview about her new movie, 'Death in Texas,' those negative tabloid stories, what she misses most about the good 'ol days, and why she has only seen "about 45 percent" of her work: "I don't want to get frustrated."

Lara Flynn Boyle may never see this article.

She doesn’t have a computer and stays off social media. She’s not even sure how to look things up online. “Could not tell you how to Google,” she says flatly by phone on a recent Monday morning, in between drags of a cigarette lit to calm her nerves after being startled by an automated message on the conference line we’re sharing. “Couldn’t tell you how to do any of it — nothing!”

The device she’s holding? Not a smartphone. “I still have an old phone, not the ones that can look up where you are or where you’re going. No thank you!”

But the 51-year-old actress welcomes questions about where she’s been over her decades-long acting career, one that started in the late 1980s and includes dozens of projects from cult classics (Twin Peaks) and Emmy-winning TV series (The Practice) to global franchise fare (Men in Black). In recent years, however, as the work has slowed down, Boyle, a native of Iowa who grew up in Chicago, has kept a low profile while dealing with drubbings from the tabloid press.

She’s quick to forgive, however, saying it’s all part of the profession she loves. Though she doesn’t do many interviews, Boyle made an exception because that profession has put her back on the big screen this month in Death in Texas, her first movie in more than five years. Boyle plays Grace, the mother of a just-released felon, played by Ronnie Gene Blevins. He returns home El Paso to find out that their time is limited as she’s dying from liver failure. Intent on securing a transplant, her son tumbles back into old habits. Bruce Dern and Stephen Lang also star in the gritty indie written and directed by Scott Windhauser.

I met Boyle for the first time in October 2017 while attending the LA County Walk to Defeat ALS, where she was supporting a longtime friend, Pilates guru Mari Winsor. At the time, she said she was eager to get back to work, and when I remind her that people might call Death in Texas her comeback, she, again, offers a quick no thank you. “I never went anywhere.”

Here, the actress opens up on her creative process, letting go of vanity, a memorable exchange at her Twin Peaks audition, and why she, too, is loving Ted Lasso.