Marlene Marino

Paz De La Huerta is beautiful, impossibly cute, tempestuous, and candid. It's disarming. When I meet her, she's got her hair piled up in a leftover style from the night before, no doubt from one of the many premiere events she's been attending. This 26 year old innocent is very accomplished as an actress, and has recently directed her own film. Paz, the star of Gaspar Noe's 'Enter The Void', also plays Lucy Danzinger in Martin Scorsese's Prohibition-era Atlantic City HBO series, 'Boardwalk Empire', which could be the next Sopranos in terms of popularity.

I arrive to Paz's tiny, jewel box-like Tribeca apartment on a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon. Her home is as I'd imagined, strewn with vintage memorabilia; items of faded, and non-faded opulence, and there are many gifts from admirers littering the floors. Hers is an aesthetic of old and new; decidely chic, and eclectically, glamourously Manhattan. There is an antique mirror with arabesque details in one corner, and a once-blue Victorian vase with bright flowers, which are lighting up the room. There is an animal print chair, and sensual oriental fabrics, and exotic perfume bottles, which glitter and shine. There is a satin covered, vintage movie star bed, and many tiny baroque details, including religious iconography of the Virgin Mary; Paz unablashedly believes in God. I notice all of these things, but mostly I keep my eyes on the lady of the house, because to say that she is a bewitching blend of innocence and eroticism, is no exaggeration. Paz is all woman, and a girl, who is truly comfortable with her sexuality. And it is a sexuality that pulls you across the room.

Living fearlessly, and sometimes tempestuously by her passions, it is in exposing every shade of her emotional self that she delivers authentically moving performances on screen. Paz is many things including vulnerable, and this is what makes her a star.

Paz de la Huerta for Apartamento #6