Parker Posey

You're On An Airplane

Parker Posey has never gotten used to hearing “yes.” From Party Girl to Kicking & Screaming t, he actress remains best known as a darling of the ’90s indie film scene. Yet while a consistent onscreen presence, scoring roles in big-budget ventures like Blade:  Trinity, as well as becoming a member of Best in Show filmmaker Christo pher Guest’s improvtroupe, Posey never quite cracked the A list. By the end of 2016, she’d become concerned enough about “never working again” and not being able to pay her mortgage that she resolved to write a memoir. She sent out a book proposal and, to her amazement, elicited interest from publishers. “I forgot what it was like: They actually wanted me there!” Posey, 49, remembers. “I’m so used to rejection—the Hollywood ‘no.’ ”