American actress, Chloe Sevigny, remembers her childhood

Chloë Sevigny takes Amanda Fortini on a tour of her native Connecticut, taking in her school and her teen hangouts. 

As childhoods go, Chloë Sevigny’s in Darien, Connecticut, a wealthy town of 20,000 an hour’s train ride from New York City, was as suburban as they come: There was sledding and softball practice and long days spent playing outside with neighbour kids on the cul-de-sac where she lived, until the third grade, with her parents and older brother, Paul.

“My mom would open the door in the morning, and we wouldn’t come back until the night. It was all about being outside,” Sevigny, who has been living in Brooklyn since 2013, says when we meet in Darien on a bitterly cold day in December.