She took her own advice and quit after a six-month stint to settle down with a boyfriend in a relationship that lasted six years. ![]() Toward the end, I was like, ‘Dude, just go get therapy and stop coming here.’ “ “Like, submissive men who all had issues. “They were all weird but nice,” she explains. The money was so good, she says - “Suddenly I could get my own apartment, pay all my own bills” - that it made up for the clientele. I really credit it when people ask me, ‘Oh, have you ever acted before?’ “ I can put on an outfit,’ you know? I did it, and it was great. ![]() It was all role-playing, and I was like, ‘I can do that. “I had heard about another girl who was doing it and that there was no sex and no nudity. Officially, the job title was “dominatrix.” Fox, who was in high school at the time, says it’s not as shocking as it sounds. “Then I got into the sex industry pretty young, doing S&M stuff.” She worked in an ice cream shop and pastry shop. “That’s where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything,” she says. “My dad didn’t give me money, so I always had to work.” She started off at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. She credits a solid work ethic as one of the keys to getting out alive. “It’s kind of a miracle that I’m OK because a lot of the people I grew up with aren’t doing so well. She has talked openly of surviving an overdose at 17. Fox says she never applied herself in school and got mixed up with friends who were drinking, drugging and clubbing in the way that city kids sometimes do. ![]() That’s what she’s been doing ever since, albeit with many twists and turns. If anything happens, this is where you live.’ Then he kind of just sent me off in the world, and I had to figure it out from there.” He was like, ‘OK, this is where you live. To confirm the use of that particular adjective, Fox tells the following story: “The first thing my dad did when I got to New York was walk me to the corner and point to the street sign. My family is Italian, traditional Catholic, and suddenly I was living with a crazy man in New York.” “It was just a total 180 from what I was used to. Her father, meanwhile, was “living in New York, like, figuring it out, trying to get an apartment and living on a boat.” When he landed a construction job and signed a lease, Fox left Italy to live full-time in Yorkville, a posh neighborhood on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. I don’t ever want to limit myself based on what other people have told me I am.”īorn in Milan to an Italian mother and American father, Fox’s early years were spent living with her grandfather near Milan because of her parents’ strained relationship. “I want to explore myself in every facet. (In 2017, she accused notable artist and photographer Chuck Close of lewd conduct during a 2013 shoot. She’s been a New York City teenage troublemaker, It girl, muse, club kid turned club owner, poet, author, artist, photographer, painter, provocateur, domestic violence survivor, a Page Six headline-maker and someone who has raised her voice to say #MeToo. From any other ingenue, the latter sounds like a publicist talking point - but not from her.įox lived many lives before making her way to the big screen, and this corner booth inside the bar where she sips a Coke and recaps the journey. The role has given her a shot at a Hollywood career, one she hopes will include more acting and, later, producing, directing and, somehow, a way to further infuse art with activism. After the film’s TIFF world premiere, she earned buzz for her portrayal of his rough-around-the-edges mistress, signed with WME and, in October, earned a Gotham Award nom for breakout actor. ![]() The 29-year-old took on her first acting job in Josh and Benny Safdie’s two-hour adrenaline rush, Uncut Gems, playing a jewelry store employee and girlfriend of Howard Ratner, a gambling addict played by Adam Sandler. That driver isn’t the only one who’s been unable to take his eyes off Fox as of late. “He couldn’t stop staring and just slammed into another car.” “It was crazy traffic, and I was wearing the Gucci with all these slits up here,” she says, waving a hand - the one with the cigarette - in front of her chest, which is now covered in a black Cactus Jack hoodie. She was posing next to a freeway for a magazine shoot (Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book) when she saw a male driver unable to avert his gaze from her. A freshly lit cigarette in one hand, cellphone in the other, Fox delivers the fender-bender details like a lunch order. It was an hour ago, somewhere in Hollywood, about a mile from where she’s standing on this late November Friday night in front of a charming watering hole called The Broadwater Plunge on L.A.’s divey theater row.
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