Diane Lane's worries about the Internet and her children spur her to take role in 'Untraceable'
“The jury’s still out with them and the Internet,” she says of her daughter, Eleanor, 14, and husband Josh Brolin’s two teenagers from a previous marriage. “I think it’s their entitlement to privacy that is so irksome to me, as a parent. ‘This is my universe. This is mine. If I haven’t invited you in and given you my password, you’re not entitled to see my Facebook, or whatever.’ ”
Jennifer Marsh, her character in Untraceable, tracks down Internet ID thieves, pornographers and sexual predators. She is on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to kidnap people and lure in a Web audience to see him torture those victims. Researching the part, for the movie (which opens today), she met real-life FBI agents on the cyber-crime beat. And that research frightened Lane “because you find out just how much they can find out about you, online. I have a healthy fear and loathing of people minding my business. So I’m trying to live a cash-only lifestyle these days, and I’m not kidding.”
And what she learned made her fear for her kids, a generation that has grown up with the Internet and a very different view of what “privacy” means.