I looked up the Elle interview and— Mon Dieu! What a piece of work.
"But my parents taught me to be a very kind person, to be compassionate. That's something that I have in common with Christine, something I could tap into. At Spence, one of my friends was a girl who was handicapped. And I have a friend who had a craniofacial deformity [like the Phantom]. That's not something that frightens me, So I'm sassy," Rossum adds, "but I'm kind."
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"But my parents taught me to be a very kind person, to be compassionate. That's something that I have in common with Christine, something I could tap into. At Spence, one of my friends was a girl who was handicapped. And I have a friend who had a craniofacial deformity [like the Phantom]. That's not something that frightens me, So I'm sassy," Rossum adds, "but I'm kind."
Oh. My. God.