Patricia Clarkson attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images ...

"House of Cards" actress Patricia Clarkson discusses surviving decades in Hollywood. ... (Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images) "I'm not a 25-year-old woman. I've lived through a lot in my life.

Clarkson: Eugenia was pretty much formed, and I accepted the journey she had. But I’m a very verbal, physical actress and I was robbed of both those assets. It was almost a radical part for me.