Yael Stone on a year of growth 'I don’t want to be anybody’s plaything again'
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In the past 18 months the actor has become a student, a mother and a more mindful public voice: ‘I’m actively trying to be more like me’
Sitting at a picnic table in the sun, Yael Stone, 34, is unrecognisable from the “Betty-Bo cute” character she played for seven years on Orange Is the New Black. Makeup-free with a pixie cut, she impresses as a deep thinker, intelligent and articulate.
The actor has spent the past year settling back into Australia with her partner and baby. It’s been a big year: she started studying sustainability, took a seven-month social media break, and spoke out publicly against the Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush, with whom she starred in a play in 2010, after he began defamation action against News Corp. In doing so, she became the highest-profile voice in Australia’s troubled #MeToo movement. Continue reading...
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