Amber Tamblyn

So funny because we were just talking about this.

I think it's twofold for me.

Obviously, I think having parents who were a strong support system in my life, it was a real privilege to have that kind of upbringing and family.

And I think also poetry.

Poetry really saved me in a way.

Poetry was a third parent.

Poetry was a guardian.

It was a way for me to reflect on those experiences and be able to put on the page the feelings that I had, whether it was anger or frustration or feeling...

invisible or feeling objectified all of those things poetry was a real way for me to let those things out early on from a young age and so I've been writing most people well I'd say maybe less so now but there was a time there was a time at which most people were really shocked that I was a poet even though I had been publishing you know the Simon and Schuster book that I wrote Freestallion was poems written age 11 to 21 um

I'd been writing as long as I had been acting.

These were two coinciding forms of art and expression that I'd done from a very young age.

And they very much informed each other.

And one was like a salve to the other in a certain way.

Why did it make you feel like you had control?

Well...

As an actress, you are creating something that's only really half yours, if that.

You are putting yourself on the line emotionally, often physically, psychologically for something you have no control over.

You are.

interpreting the words of someone else that they've written.

You are creating the world that a show creator has written and has created that they have envisioned.