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Huh, I hadn't yet seen that news in the Dutch press.
I can't say that she meant much to me as an actress.
But the eulogy in the Volkskrant has a kind melancholic tone to it.
Sometimes the Netherlands feels as if it's the North-Dakota of the world: not many people make it to a bigger, European or global, stage. So whoever becomes world famous, for whatever possibly not so admirable reason, has a certain mondain chic that the others lack.
Apparently she was with the Dutch writer Hugo Claus during the shooting of the first film. He coolly advised her performance during the sex scenes.
Being in a relationship with a hip older writer in the early seventies in the Netherlands. The mind boggles imagining the standards of promiscuousness and drug use that must have been usance. And then to become the first main stream soft porn star at the age of 21.
A non standard life.
Slaap zacht.