She was sitting next to Marilyn Monroe in Lee Strasberg‘s Actors Studio.
Lee said to her “you have talent.”
That made “all the difference in the world” — she had someone tell her that she had some self-worth.
The funny thing is you would think she wouldn’t have needed it because she was a very beautiful woman, and she had had a privileged upbringing.
But you see, that was something that hadn’t happened to her before. What you see is not always what you get. For Hank, was a complicated man and hard to get to know, to say the least.
And Jane couldn’t understand that in her first two acts.