Daryl Hannah, the actress who has never held back: ‘I’ve been hearing that I’m too old for certain roles since I was 30’

Forty years ago, the release of Splash, a romantic comedy update of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, introduced the world to a fascinating creature: Daryl Hannah, a tall, statuesque blonde with blue eyes who led to an army of girls now in their forties named Madison, like the film’s protagonist. A role previously rejected by Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Melanie Griffith served to consolidate her hitherto stop-start career. What few could have imagined was that this sudden stardom, which would have made any emerging actress happy, was a real ordeal for her. The whole film had held a certain nightmarish air. “I was very world-traveled, but very sheltered at the same time,” she told People. “I hadn’t really had a boyfriend yet… So I was incredibly anxious about any nudity.”

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