SUBMITTED BY Timbo

December 30, 2003 — USA Today talks to Jennifer Connelly, who is getting great notices for her portrayal of Kathy in "House of Sand and Fog".

Kathy is fighting a losing battle to win back the childhood home she lost to Iranian immigrant Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley) in a tax mix-up. And this Kathy will stop at nearly nothing to get that dinky little house back.

It's exactly the kind of thorny, tricky role that appeals to Connelly, who won a supporting-actress Oscar for playing a long-suffering wife in 2001's A Beautiful Mind.

"I don't read that many scripts that I like that much and respond to passionately," she says.

In a sense, House returns Connelly to her roots. After starring in this year's underperforming action flick The Hulk, she is back doing the kind of intimate movies that bring out the best in her. She gravitated toward the despondent Kathy because "she is desperate at the beginning and has nothing to tether her grief. I like the fact that the characters were broad, and they weren't your typical heroes. The movie didn't pick a winner."

Read the rest of the interview at the link below.