Maggie Gyllenhaal: You Stop Performing for Others in Your Thirties — elle.com

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new 8-part miniseries, The Honorable Woman (premiering tonight at 10 pm EST on SundanceTV), is a complicated political thriller that falls somewhere between Homeland and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The American actress, adopting a notably effective British accent, plays Nessa Stein, a woman grappling with what it means to be, well, honorable. At a recent event for SundanceTV at the Soho House in Los Angeles, we chatted with Gyllenhaal about what critics are calling a career-defining role—plus, what she really meant when she said that being a blonde didn’t make her any happier.

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