Diane Lane: Lane Changes

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Diane Lane’s career got off to a promising start when the teen actress was cast in a trio of movies directed by Francis For Coppola. After The Cotton Club bombed, Lane took a break from acting. When she returned, she had trouble regaining her lost momentum. In the late nineties, Lane seemed to find her footing with A Walk on the Moon. In this profile from the June 2000 issue of Movieline magazine, Lane was promoting another key movie in her comeback, The Perfect Storm.

The Santa Monica coffeehouse where Diane Lane and I meet is fresh out of her chosen elixir, the Tension Tamer, but no matter, Lane’s plenty mellow without it. With over two decades of Hollywood experience notched on her belt, it would take a lot to get her rattled anyway.

Lane made a luminous film debut at age 14 in A Little Romance and went on to star as a teen in three Francis Ford Coppola movies– The Outsiders, Rumble Fish and The Cotton Club. She was easily the most beautiful girl of the era and the most gifted, too. But in 1984, when she was 19, she fled Hollywood and didn’t resurface for several years. It took a while for her to reestablish herself (and it could be argued that she’s rarely gotten the roles she’s deserved), but in 1987 she was rewarded with an Emmy nomination for her performance in the miniseries Lonesome Dove. Since then, her career has suffered more than its share of missed opportunities and missteps–1995’s Judge Dredd would be one of the latter–but at 35, with & six-year-old daughter, Eleanor (by ex-husband Christopher Lambert), and a good deal of professional respect, she’s a true Hollywood survivor. And right now she’s on a roll. It started a year ago with A Walk on the Moon, in which she turned in some career-peak work as a ’60s housewife whose soul is revitalized when she has an affair with sexy clothing salesman Viggo Mortensen. The family drama she starred in earlier this year, My Dog Skip, was a tear-jerking gem, and she was heartbreakingly beautiful and persuasive in TNT’s The Virginian. This summer, Lane stars in The Perfect Storm, director Wolfgang Petersen’s much-anticipated adaptation of the best-selling true story of a group of fishermen caught in one of the century’s worst storms.