Jennifer Connelly: Her Style Timeline
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1/171984: in Once Upon a Time in America
"Everything was new and magical, and it was like a fairy-tale movie set: sweeping sets and hundreds of people in these period costumes and horses and carriage.... It was my first time kissing a boy in that scene. So funny, the way I put my lips on his lips, and I remember it was such a big deal at the time. I was literally in tears after the scene. And if you look at it, it's the most chaste thing in the world."
2/171986: With Princess Diana at the London Premiere of Labyrinth
"This was such a big deal. I was very excited to meet her, such an icon. There was lots of protocol. I was nervous. But she was lovely, as I remember. She was very kind and sweet to me. She was a princess!"
3/171986: With David Bowie in Labyrinth
"Who could forget the hair, the wigs? I remember trying so hard to do the dancing well, and I just had no skill whatsoever. This was another experience that was so extraordinary. This was one of the last films where all of that stuff was really there. It wasn't done digitally: The sets were all there, all the puppets were there, and it was so creative. David Bowie was so generous and lovely with me, and I remember thinking that dress was very, very fancy. I think it was made out of Saran Wrap."
4/171991: With Frank Whaley in Career Opportunities
"I think I got a scar on my shin from doing that scene. My roller-skating skills are not the best, and I skated right into the camera dolly."
5/171990: With Dweezil Zappa in West Hollywood, California
"That's cute. I dated [him] for not a very long period of time, and he was very sweet. We met at a party or at a premiere or something, and he said something that I thought was really funny. I was staying at the Chateau Marmont, living there."
6/171994: With Antonio Banderas in Of Love and Shadows
"This is very steamy. I think we're having sex in some mine or something like that, I don't know. We filmed in Argentina, which is beautiful—really saturated, syrupy light. I can't remember much about it, but I can tell you...I'm not sure I ever saw this film, and that's probably good."
7/171996: With John Malkovich in Mulholland Falls
"[I was] staying in this place in the desert, and then there was a big casino right across the street, and a big sign with a cowboy, who kept waving, in lights right outside my window. It was so desolate there. One of those places where I'd sit on the bed and look out at that cowboy thinking, How did they get you here? What am I doing here?"
8/172000: With Billy Crudup in Waking the Dead
"[My son] Kai had just been born. [Before this], you can see that it's someone else's fantasy of me, not who I wanted to be. So that movie was really important for me. I loved the script; I loved Keith Gordon, who directed it; I loved Billy, working with him. We were filming in Montreal in the wintertime. It was a crazy year where they had some historic ice storm, and the city shut down, and we had to rehearse one day by candlelight. It was everything I always wanted moviemaking to be."
9/172000: With Jared Leto in Requiem for a Dream
"I was a single mom raising—at that point, Kai was two, I think. And here's this girl running around town with her [heroin] habit and going on a very different path. But I just reveled in the opportunity to learn about her and gather stories, and I met some really interesting people. It was like everything that I always loved about school, learning about these different worlds and different people's stories."
10/172001: With Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind
"I think everyone had curly hair in that movie. My husband [Paul Bettany] has very short, very straight hair. I think they gave him pin curls in that movie, too. Well, that was an amazing experience. It was so interesting on every level for me. I felt like we had like two weeks of rehearsals, which is just unheard of anymore to have that amount of time—unheard of for me, anyway."
11/172002: at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills
"My eyebrows look really severe and harsh. What's going on with my hair? I'm not sure. I look like I have Botox. My eyebrows look weird. My eyebrows look kind of mean in that picture."
12/172009: With Bradley Cooper in He's Just Not That Into You
"Look at him. Look how lovely he is. You can just see that he's a lovely person, can't you? I was playing a highly neurotic, sort of straight character, but in a lighthearted film, which was nice. It was nice for me to be in that kind of an environment. And surrounded by great people."
13/172002: at the Oscars in Hollywood
J.C.: "I was there with my dad, which was great, and I was so happy to be able to have him there with me."
Allure: "Do you remember the moment when they called your name for the Best Supporting Actress award?"
J.C.: "Kind of. I was terrified. It just felt so overwhelming. I remember feeling stunned."
14/172009: at the Premiere of He's Just Not That Into You With Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Aniston in Los Angeles
"They were both really lovely. I don't think I had any scenes with Drew, but Jennifer was great—I loved her. The reality of those things is everyone comes in and does their part and then flies off. I said, 'Oh, it will be so great. We'll all work together,' and the most time we actually got to spend socializing was at the premiere."
15/172009: With Paul Bettany in Creation
"My husband and I already had children together; [it] was great being able to collaborate. [But] that movie was fraught with challenges, the biggest being that my dad had just died right before I started it. It was hard for that not to overshadow everything, even an experience like working with Paul."
16/172013: Filming Winter's Tale With Colin Farrell
"I've been good friends for all these years with Akiva [Goldsman], who wrote and directed it, ever since I worked with him on A Beautiful Mind. It was amazing to see this come to fruition, and I was really honored that he wanted me to be part of it. [Colin] is great. He's done an amazing job on the film."
17/172013: Filming Shelter in New York City
"The experience was extraordinary. I was so proud of Paul that he had this idea and wrote this thing and got it made. That was a huge achievement, and he did a great job on it, he really did. It was an amazing part to play, and a really beautiful love story, I think, as well."
