Jennifer Parkhill

Jennifer Parkhill Instagram – Part 1/3
I was eating molten cheese, the kind that comes out of a spout, from Taco Bell.
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I was a high school senior crashing at my father’s business partner’s pool house on weekends so I could attend back to back Friday/Saturday strip-mall acting classes at the Bobbie Chance Studio in the Los Angeles valley.
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I’d drive my Mazda Navajo with the broken A/C, windows down, up the 405 freeway, blasting tunes from the walkman hooked into my stereo by one of those little cassette tape’s with an aux cord, thinking about how I was going to be somebody.
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For 24 hours each weekend, I’d sweat under hot lights, letting my “animal” out, travelling the gambit of emotions from laughter, to panic, to tears in a single evening at my teacher’s behest, then hit the drive through on my way back to dad’s bud’s pool house, falling into bed with a bag of Taco Bell. A day’s end reward.
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I was going to be an actress.
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In class, I’d often ask to work on scenes from the movie Gia. I’d been enthralled by the film — captivated by Angelina Jolie’s raw performance as a queer addict. I wanted to be an actress with that kind of grit. I still don’t know if requesting scenes from that particular film, scenes primarily between women, was an attempt at understanding the mind of a junkie, because my mother had been one, or to avoid being paired with and groped by male scene partners who were double my age and came from backgrounds in porn.
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Then again, it may have been an excuse to kiss a girl, to embody queerness, under the guise of acting.
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I digress.
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Photographer: @rebeccathered
Director: Sean Salcido
HMU: @mylanmedrano
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