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"FacebookPinterest\n\n One symptom of the decidedly nonmedical condition known as \u201Cbaby face\u201C is the ability to cry your way out of any speeding ticket. Another, at least in the case of a winsome few, is a pronounced lack of difficulty in finding work in Hollywood. Such are the maladies that afflict Alison Lohman, the actress with the Kewpie-doll countenance and a reputation for playing characters far younger than her 26-year-old self: She was the luckless kid who was bounced between foster moms Robin Wright Penn and Ren\u00E9e Zellweger in White Oleander; the teenage incarnation of Jessica Lange in the Tim Burton fable Big Fish; and the possible long-lost daughter of Nicolas Cage in Ridley Scott\u2019s con caper, Matchstick Men. \u201CI\u2019ve never really thought of myself as a child,\u201C says Lohman, sipping chamomile tea at a coffee shop in Santa Monica. \u201CBut it\u2019s always something that I\u2019ve found useful.\u201C\n\nIt will be even harder to think of her that way\u2014harder to think of anything at all, really\u2014after seeing her performance in Where the Truth Lies, the latest offering from director Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter). The film casts Lohman as a \u201970s-era reporter investigating a murder that broke up a Martin-and-Lewis-like comedy team played by Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. Of course, our intrepid journalist will stop at nothing to get her story, even if it means engaging in explicit carnal entanglements with both her leading men and\u2014hey, lady!\u2014a girl-on-girl love scene. The movie has already been slapped with an NC-17 rating, apparently having run afoul of the MPAA\u2019s \u201Cthree thrusts\u201C rule. \u201CIsn\u2019t it unbelievable that they go into such mathematical depth?\u201C says the outraged Lohman. \u201CIt takes all the fun out of the scene.\u201C\n\nUndaunted by the amount of flesh she had to bare in Truth (\u201CMaybe if we ran around topless all the time,\u201C she opines, \u201Cwe wouldn\u2019t have NC-17 ratings\u201C), Lohman says the role wasn\u2019t a conscious attempt to prove to the film industry that she\u2019s all grown up. \u201CI just love to scare myself,\u201C she says. \u201CI think it\u2019s my motto.\u201C Even scarier: She\u2019ll soon be playing a 16-year-old girl in the Fox remake of My Friend Flicka. So is the studio aware that the fresh-faced star of its family-friendly horsie picture will be coming off a steamy tale of sexual intrigue when Flicka opens? \u201CI don\u2019t know,\u201C Lohman says, shrugging. \u201CI\u2019m not going to be the one to tell them.\u201C Neither are we.\u2014Dave Itzkoff"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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