Zoe Kurland

Then for the actual cameo.

The director, Steven Soderbergh, thought it would be fun to play into this mirror image thing.

He'd asked Erin to play a diner waitress serving Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich.

My dad had stitched a name tag onto Aaron's diner waitress costume.

I don't know what possessed him to do this.

It feels almost diabolical, but it read Julia.

In the bright lights of the movie diner, caught in a cameo she didn't want to be in, Erin experienced a split between herself and the person that the world would come to see as her.

When you saw the costumes, when you saw the movie, did you feel like it was accurate?

Do you feel like it made sense?

I was kind of surprised to hear how blasé Erin was about seeing what I considered to be the most iconic set of outfits in movie history.

I had this sense that Erin was really particular about what she wore and that the costumes reflected that.

But she told me that back in Hinkley, that hadn't been true at all.

It sounded like the way Erin dressed had always been natural to her.

She wore what she liked, what worked.

But she told me that after the movie, things started to change.

Not to be totally insane, but it sounds like Aaron is talking about a version of the same thing that I'm experiencing.

A slightly more dramatic situation than simply exiting young adulthood, obviously.

But this idea of feeling like the person you were isn't exactly working anymore.

You're suddenly more conscious of the way the world is seeing you, trying to look like a more polished version of yourself.

trying to dress for the role you're supposed to be playing.