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"Imagine House of Cards without Robin Wright&amp;apos;s portrayal of Claire Underwood. Wright, who smolders on the cover of Town &amp;amp; Country&amp;apos;s June/July 2014 issue, told the mag that she nearly rejected the role of Kevin Spacey&amp;apos;s wife on the smash Netflix series.\r\n&amp;quot;Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity,&amp;quot; Wright, 48, explained. &amp;quot;So I opted not to work if there wasn&amp;apos;t enough to do in a role, which doesn&amp;apos;t have to do with the role&amp;apos;s size.&amp;quot; The actress said it&amp;apos;s this mentality that nearly prevented her from playing Claire, who she assumed was just another wife of a powerful man.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;If there&amp;apos;s nothing for me to do as an actress, that&amp;apos;s frustrating,&amp;quot; Wright explained. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;d rather go work at a menial labor job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nIt works well for Wright, who was practically woo&amp;apos;d by series&amp;apos; executive producer David Fincher to tackle the role of ruthless politician&amp;apos;s wife. &amp;quot;David assured me that this would be a collaboration, that I could help create the character as we went along, that we would make discoveries together,&amp;quot; Wright said of her character.\r\nThe payoff, as it turns out, was worth it. &amp;quot;Kevin and Robin were our first choices&amp;#x2014;really, our only choices,&amp;quot; show creator Beau Willimon explained. &amp;quot;If he brings indomitable power, she brings intoxicating inscrutability.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nIn her early years as an actress, Wright was not always the first choice&amp;#x2014;especially as she auditioned for John Hughes movies. &amp;quot;It was always down to the wire between me and Molly Ringwald,&amp;quot; Wright said, &amp;quot;and Molly always got the part.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nThough Ringwald went on to star in cult classic The Breakfast Club, Wright, for her part, nabbed the role of Buttercup in 1987&amp;apos;s The Princess Bride. &amp;quot;It was my first film experience, and so you might say that I fully immersed myself in the role,&amp;quot; she said with a laugh.\r\n&amp;quot;I did not act. It was mostly telling myself, &amp;apos;Don&amp;apos;t be an idiot in front of Mandy Patinkin and Christopher Guest.&amp;apos;&amp;quot; The actress further mused, &amp;quot;And Cary [Elwes] was so good-looking. I was convinced we were going to be married, which was a revelation when I told him recently.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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