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Byline: Michael Specter
Jennifer Connelly has a serious request to make. "I want to be taken less seriously,'' she told me late one afternoon this summer. We had been riding our bicycles in Brooklyn's Prospect Park until the sun forced us to seek refuge beneath the shade of an oak tree. "Well, maybe that sounds weird,'' she added. "I mean I don't only want to be taken seriously. I would like people to think of me as playful. As fun. At least not as grim and morose.'' She stopped for a moment and laughed at herself. "I never thought I would be saying this, but my main professional goal right now is to be cast as a character who is not dark or depressing. You ...