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Clarkson, 65, talked about her own real-life experience in an interview with Fox News Digital, and her latest film, Lilly, brought a surface to her.
The film is based on the extraordinary true story of Lilly Ledbetter, a hardworking Alabama tire factory manager whose single goal is to raise her family into the middle class. ”
"House of Cards" actress Patricia Clarkson discusses decades of Hollywood's survival. (Photo of Dominik Bindl/Getty image)
"I'm not a 25-year-old woman. I've experienced a lot in my life," Clarkson said.
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"For me, Lily's journey was a profound emotional journey, a journey full of conflict and struggle, and ultimately a victory, but my hard work, how hard work, how to work, and still in a career at 65, lost love. Losing my family behind in New Orleans."
"I'm not a 25-year-old woman. I've been through a lot in my life. I survived Hollywood, okay."
The film sparked memories of Clarkson’s “struggle” throughout her life, but she was proud to still be “here” and leave her mark in the entertainment industry.
Playing the role of Eli Lilly is Clarkson's personal choice. She told Fox News Digital that Lilly Ledbetter was the personal hero of her mother's death.
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"Sadly, my mother passed away and couldn't see this movie, which broke my heart because my mother was a powerful person. She runs the city (New Orleans) and Lily Ledbetter is one of her heroes. Of course, she raised five daughters. The mother raised five daughters, and we are all industrial women, and my sisters are very accomplished.
Clarkson smiled and said, "I'm just a low-key actress. They all have real careers and real life."
Patricia Clarkson knew when she was young that she was not the kind of marriage. (Photo by Mike Guastella/Wireimage)
For decades in Hollywood, the House of Cards actress recognized that women were treated in the industry very differently than she was treated when she first started in the late 1980s.
"Oh, it's growing exponentially. When I first started, the first movie I made was 'Untouchables'. My makeup artist was a man.
Clarkson said Hollywood’s perception of women has changed dramatically since the 1980s. (Photography by Emma McIntyre/Wireimage)
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Clarkson previously described herself as a "single, straight, southern woman" who never married or had children.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, she explained that her choice to stay single was from a young age.
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"I have great men in my life. Not all, but many people who have made me a better person, and I'm so grateful to some of the outstanding people I've dated in my life," Clarkson said. "Many of them need a wife and I know I'm not that."
Patricia Clarkson loves other people's children, but doesn't want their own.
"One of the greatest joys of my life is that they are their aunts. Now they have these beautiful kids that you can eat on a spoon. That's enough for me. I do love other people's kids. But I think I'm the best single."
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Clarkson said there was a person asking her to consider a marriage, but looking at his current location, she was confident that the relationship would not be resolved. She didn't name the man she was referring to.
Patricia Clarkson starred in the newly released film Eli Lilly. (Eric Charbonneau/Blue Harbour Entertainment Photography, by Getty Images)
On May 9, "Eli Lilly" made its debut in the theater.
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