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A Sarah of Substance: Silverman Turns Serious as Suburban Addict in ‘I Smile Back’
One thing that you are probably not taught in J-school: how to tell a celebrity during an interview that you found their latest performance unwatchable. Forget the career in journalism, actually: it’s just poor social form. But when you find yourself inches away from legendary Sarah Silverman, so close that you’re literally brushing elbows with one of your comic idols in the inexplicably tight kitchen of The Surrey Hotel’s gigantic presidential suite, impulse control is particularly hard.
“At one point I had to get up and take a break; I went downstairs and smoked a cigarette,” I told the 44-year-old about her dramatic turn in 'I Smile Back,' adapted from Amy Koppelman’s novel on crushing substance abuse, which opens in select theaters and VOD this Friday. “It was too real to watch.”