INTERVIEW: Gaby Hoffmann?s ?Crystal (Fairy?) Method

Sebasti�n�Silva's Crystal Fairy�was the first film I caught at the Sundance Film Festival, and by the time I left Park City, I �still hadn't seen a performance that measured up to Gaby Hoffmann's stunning, ego-free portrayal of that movie's title character. Hoffmann first appears onscreen dancing with goofy abandon and spouting New Agey talk that leave little doubt she will be the butt of the movie's jokes for the next hour and a half. But then she steals the show by literally and emotionally stripping herself naked over the course of the film, revealing her character to be much more complex, damaged and vulnerable than those first scenes suggest.

At the film's Sundance premiere, Silva said that his movie, which is based on a real-life encounter, is "about the birth of compassion in someone's life." Although it's actor Michael Cera, in the lead male role, who undergoes that emotional transformation, Hoffmann plays the part of catalyst with such heartbreaking authenticity that I couldn't help but take that roller-coaster ride, too.

Hoffmann's performance is all the more remarkable when you consider that Crystal Fairy was almost entirely improvised �and shot in 12 days in Chile while Silva was waiting for production to start on another movie he brought to Sundance, Magic Magic.

A New York native, Hoffmann, 31, has quite a bit of experience with iconoclastic personalities. �She is the daughter of Warhol superstar Viva and grew up in Manhattan's fabled Chelsea Hotel. In the interview below, she talks about the non-conformist surroundings of her childhood, �filming Crystal Fairy while tripping on mescaline, and how her experience on the set reaffirmed her commitment �to acting after 10 years of soul-searching, following performances in Field of Dreams,

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