At age 19, she started her movie career in LA with no experience working as a script reader for 'Warren Beatty. In her 2020 memoir "Miss Aluminum," she describes how Beatty and screenwriter Robert Towne "interviewed" her for the job by asking her to lift up her already-short linen skirt to see her legs, after which Beatty responded,. "Can you start tomorrow morning?".
I was a pretty girl, malleable up to a point, discreet, high-spirited and tolerant...I seemed to advance in haphazard leaps and jumps with no steadiness and always a bit out of order, always a little ahead of myself.
