After "Cape Fear," Juliette Lewis' career quickly took off. She played Rain in Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives," Sheryl in "That Night," Adele in "Kalifornia," Becky in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," and Mallory in "Natural Born Killers." Each of these roles added to Lewis' growing reputation as an indie darling. Lewis had finally found her niche — which was not playing any particular type. "If you had brown hair, you're a moody, sarcastic teen. If you have blonde hair, you're an airhead, pretty girl," Lewis said to The New York Times, describing the two teen types available at the time.
When she broke away from stereotypes, Lewis finally discovered that she enjoyed acting. "I wanted to play people who weren't myself — complicated people I wasn't used to seeing on screen," she told Slant, adding, "I was sort of giving a voice to the misfit, the disenfranchised, the alternative girl, the one you don't see often. But they're also fully realized, most of them."
In another interview with TNT, she noted that these raw roles that allowed her to be a little more real felt like a natural fit, even if they were very different from her. "I guess you could say I relish the complex primal energy of humanity. It's something I tap into well," she said. "I don't know, it sure beats playing the girlfriend and worrying about looking pretty and if your hair is correctly quaffed. That's never been my thing. There's a million actresses who do that."
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