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Mariel says that Margaux invited her kid sister - who had no acting experience - to play her kid sister, thinking it would help bolster Margaux in what was the model's first big movie.
While Margaux's performance was savaged, Mariel stole the show, even being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture.
"I got very good notices after the film, which was kind of difficult for my relationship with Margaux," she told Rocca. "She felt resentment towards me for coming in and sort of taking the limelight, which I didn't intentionally do."

Mariel Hemingway said being in "Manhattan" (1979), in which she played the teenage girlfriend of Woody Allen's middle-aged writer, was "like getting a break from that whole life I was leading. Even though I loved Idaho, it was a break from the crazy kind of dark and unhappy family."
Hemingway said the role - a teenage girl sophisticated beyond her years - was sophisticated beyond her years. "I was so unclear about what I was playing," she told Rocca. "I would ask my mother, 'Look at these lines. He mentions scuba dive equipment. What in the world does he mean?' I mean, I'd never had a boyfriend before. It was the last thing that I knew about, you know? I was really the most unsophisticated person, which was the irony of that situation."

Hemingway received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.

"Bob Fosse didn't want me for the movie," Hemingway said. "He was, like, 'You're not right. You're all-American. You're this, you're that.' And I said, 'No, you have to understand something. I really understand.' 'Cause I'd played the victim my whole life, and I played the martyr at home. I sort of understood not really living the life you wanted to live, but sort of being guided to a life that somebody thought you should live."

In the 1985 comedy, "Creator", Peter O'Toole played a scientist seeking to clone a replica of his late wife. Mariel Hemingway played an egg donor. Complications ensued.