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" I&amp;#039;m the curvy one of the family.&amp;quot; Kewpie eyes and nose aside, Lizzie Olsen&amp;#039;s 5&amp;#039;7&amp;quot; frame and shapely figure belie her shared parentage with the famously petite Mary-Kate and Ashley. Yet &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s very clear that I&amp;#039;m the younger sister,&amp;quot; she asserts. &amp;quot;My whole life they&amp;#039;ve been like women, while I&amp;#039;ve been trying to be a woman but still a kid.&amp;quot; All that changed at last year&amp;#039;s Sundance Film Festival, where the 22-year-old&amp;#039;s star turns in two very-adult indies \u2014 Silent House and Martha Marcy May Marlene \u2014 ignited a new Olsen fever. The youngest of four siblings, Olsen has been cultivating a sense of gravitas for years. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always had a complex about being taken seriously,&amp;quot; she says over lunch of fava-bean salad and burrata. &amp;quot;I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.&amp;quot; So she plunged into an ongoing study of her craft, spending summers at musical theater camp and attending the prestigious Atlantic Theater Company at NYU&amp;#039;s Tisch School of the Arts \u2014 with a semester in Russia at the Moscow Art Theater School for good measure. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always loved being a student,&amp;quot; Olsen says. (She refused to read the Spy Kids script for her very first audition because &amp;quot;it was too big, and I had schoolwork.&amp;quot;) But dorm living? Not so much. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the only time in my life I ever felt different for having sisters in the public eye,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;People would knock on my door and be like, &amp;#039;I heard there was a party here,&amp;#039; just because they knew that I lived in that room. It was so weird.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s since moved into a classic New York junior one-bedroom: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s like a closet \u2014 I need to stop doing independent films so I don&amp;#039;t have to live in 300 square feet.&amp;quot; Her upcoming thriller, Red Lights, with Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, and Cillian Murphy, may be just the ticket. There&amp;#039;s also the holidays at home in L.A. to look forward to. So what does an Olsen family Christmas look like? &amp;quot;My sisters and I do most of the cooking because we love it. We jazz up the holidays with mashed cauliflower. It&amp;#039;s so delicious; it&amp;#039;s Mary-Kate&amp;#039;s signature.&amp;quot; A family of fashion designers, style icons, actresses, and chefs \u2014 it&amp;#039;s an Olsen world, we just live in it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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