Martha Plimpton’s got staying power.

The 37-year old landed her first role at the age of eleven, no doubt because of her famous lineage - her parents are actors Shelley Plimpton and Keith Carradine. While other child stars would have fizzled long ago, the striking young Plimpton’s still going strong and about to open a new Broadway show, Top Girls.

Homo-journo Brandon Voss recently interviewed Plimpton for The Advocate, but some of the juicier bits of the conversation didn’t make the cut. Thus, Voss offered us some “exclusive excerpts,” which is just a sugar-coated way of saying “scraps.” No matter, we would eat Plimpton’s shit if she’d let us.

Okay, that’s (mostly) not true, but we love her enough to pass along these cuts, in which she chats about a “feminist backlash” to Hillary Clinton, feeling bad for Lindsay Lohan and her dykey Goonies character, Stef Steinbrenner.

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The kids at The Advocate sent us over their article on Kim Cattrall, whose Sex and The City movie soon debuts. While Cattrall’s all well and good, the depth of the piece is - well, minimal. That’s why we suggest you read what Martha Plimpton had to say to journo Brandon Voss. She’s always been one of our favorites and has loads to say about playing gay and just being generally fabulous.

Martha Plimpton may not be a fag, but the fags sure do love her. Well, we do, at least and can’t resist passing on a little Martha-related gossip

New York recently sat down with the Tony-nominated actress (Best Featured Actress in The Coast of Utopia, in case you’re not keeping score) and we’d like to give her a Pulitzer for her astute social commentary on New York’s ubiquitous Duane Reade pharmacy chain: It’s always a journey into the Heart of Darkness, going in there, with a long line of hysterical Upper West Siders tearing at their clothes and smearing themselves with their own feces. Here is the script:

Me: “Plimpton.”
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