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In a TIME magazine interview, actress Connie Britton ’89 talks about her new movie role and what being a Chinese major at Dartmouth taught her.

“I feel like my experience being able to go to college and study all the things that I studied—not being a drama major, being a Chinese major—absolutely has contributed to the rest of my life,” Britton says. “It’s easy to laugh at that and say, ‘What does that have to do with being an actor?’ For me personally, though, it’s shaped the person that I am, and that’s something that I needed.

Read the full story, published 8/19/15 by TIME.