Claire Danes was a vampire, despatched to empty her neighbors’ sanity.
The Emmy-winning actor appeared on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Wednesday and shared a narrative about how she was a “nightmare neighbor” till a ’90s icon who lived in her constructing finally referred to as her out — in a really humorous approach.
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“I had this really wonderful loft, it was like my bachelorette pad,” the “Homeland” star stated in regards to the New York Metropolis condominium she lived in throughout her 20s. “And I was dating a musician, and he had gifted me a drum set for a birthday or something.”
“The best possible neighbor,” Colbert remarked sarcastically.
“And, um, who was my downstairs neighbor but Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins,” she shared.
After cringing to herself, Danes continued.
“And he would meet me in the elevator, and be like, ‘Yeah, good progress, Claire. Great stuff.’”
“Do you still play?” Colbert requested.
“Um, no, I don’t think I ever played again! Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh gosh,” Danes stated.
Funnily sufficient, Angela Chase — Danes’ breakout position within the short-lived teen drama “My So-Called Life” — tells her dad on the tail finish of Episode 4 that Smashing Pumpkins is considered one of her favourite bands.
Little did Danes know that a number of years later, the band’s frontman would counsel she’s horrible at taking part in the drums.
“I was 14 when I did the bulk of [‘My So-Called Life’],” Danes informed Colbert earlier in her interview Wednesday, noting she filmed the pilot when she was simply 13. “But [I was] a baby, but I felt very mature at the time.”
“I have an almost 13-year-old child now,” Danes continued. “And I look at him, and I’m like, ‘No, no, no, I was definitely not close to an adult person.’”
