Claire Danes reveals she was a nightmare neighbor
The Emmy-winning actor appeared on the show “Late show with Stephen Colbert” on Wednesday and shared a story about how she used to be a “nightmare neighbor” until a ’90s icon who lived in her building finally called her, in a very funny way.

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“I had this really wonderful loft, it was like my bachelorette pad,” the “Homeland” star said of the New York City apartment she lived in when she was 20. “And I was dating a musician and he had given me a drum set for a birthday or something.”
“The best neighbor possible,” Colbert commented sarcastically.
“And, um, who was my downstairs neighbor but Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins?” he shared.
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After shrinking to herself, Danes continued.
“And he would meet me in the elevator and say, ‘Yeah, good progress, Claire. Great.'”
“Do you still play?” —Colbert asked.
“Um, no, I don’t think he played again! Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh,” Danes said.
Interestingly, Angela Chase, Danes’ breakout role in the short-lived teen drama “My So-Called Life,” tells her father at the end of episode 4. that Smashing Pumpkins is one of his favorite bands.
Little did the Danes know that a few years later, the band’s leader would suggest that she is terrible at drumming.
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“I was 14 when I did most of [‘My So-Called Life’]” The Danes told Colbert before in his interview Wednesday, noting that he filmed the pilot when he was just 13 years old. “But [I was] “I was a baby, but I felt very mature at that moment.”
“I now have an almost 13-year-old son,” Danes continued. “And I look at him and say, ‘No, no, no, he definitely wasn’t close to an adult person.’”


