Happy Birthday: Kelly Lynch

Kelly Lynch

Born: January 31, 1959 in Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA

Married to: Mitch Glazer (6 December 1992 – present)

]2012, on Drugstore Cowboy (1989)] I saw the script in my agent’s office – the words Drugstore Cowboy were written on the spine – and I said, “What a cool title! What is that?” And she looked at me and said, “Oh, please. They want Patti Smith. It’s a movie about the early ’70s and drugs, and it’s based on a true story, apparently”. And I said, “Cool! Can I read it?” And my agent rolled her eyes and said, “You’re wasting your time”. But I read it, and I said, “Okay, I’ve got to do this”. And she said, “Yeah, but they’re looking at Patti Smith and Bob Dylan. Do you feel like you’re like Patti Smith?” I was like, “I feel like I could be. I mean, I can be something different than I am”. But I met with one of the producers, and he said, “I think you could do this, and I think this could be good for you”. He seated me next to Gus [Van Sant] at this dinner, and Gus didn’t know he was meeting me, but he’d heard about my name in the mix of things, and we had a great time hanging out together. And then I came in to read for him, and I stayed up the night before all night because everyone was afraid I was way too pretty for this drug addict. But we’re young people. It’s not like drug addicts are exclusively ugly. They’re just… different.

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