During The Hollywood Reporter Writers Roundtable, 'Babygirl' writer Halina Reijn recalls the moment she knew she wanted to write for cinema, after seeing 'Annie' when she was six years old.
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00:00I was raised by radical hippies and I wasn't allowed to see TV, any moving images,
00:06because that would be bad for the soul. And then we had a babysitter who was so bored
00:11because we only had wooden blocks to play with and she took us to the cinema. I was six
00:15to see Annie and that did change my soul. And I thought like you, I thought Annie made that movie,
00:21the actress Eileen Queen. I thought she wrote it up and made it. So that's why I thought,
00:26oh, I'm going to be an actress and then I will be creating those stories. But of course,
00:31little did I know. And I always wrote little stories and diaries. And then I wrote at a
00:36certain moment in my life, I wrote a little novel and then it just evaluated from there.