And I grew up with a mother who was a painter, so she's very introverted, and a brother who was behind a Super 8 camera all the time. I'm the most outgoing of all of us, and I still wasn't that outgoing.
Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.
Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.
I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
I had just done a stint on Broadway. I was dancing every night for a couple months so I felt physically strong.
I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.
I hope to just find more great roles.
I just ate whatever I wanted. But I didn't go overboard because who's to say it would've gone to the right places.
I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.
I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.
It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.
It's not like I have a master plan or anything.
People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.
You just want to keep finding things that you can sink your teeth into and get busy with and then feel proud of afterwards.
Gretchen attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
In September 1998, Gretchen appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, which proclaimed her "Hollywood's newest 'It' girl.
Gretchen appeared on Broadway as Roxie Heart in the Tony Award-winning play "Chicago."
Gretchen moved to New York City in 1990.
Gretchen has been married to Tod Williams since June 2004.
Gretchen's brother Jim also works in the film industry.
Gretchen portrayed pin-up Bettie Page in the 2006 movie The Notorious Bettie Page. The reason she was chosen was because she had this 1950s-type charm that Bettie also possessed, so the producers thought Gretchen would be perfect.
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