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Fifty Shades Darker actress Kim Basinger covers the latest issue of The Edit by Net-A-Porter and dishes on how her high-profile divorce from Alec Baldwin affected their 20-year-old daughter Ireland.

On divorcing Alec Baldwin after nearly nine years of marriage when Ireland was just 7: “Divorce is hard on a kid, no matter how you cut it. And ours was very public and nasty. So I brought up Ireland in a very unconventional way. I just wanted her to be free. If she wanted to have her friends over and write over the walls with pen, that was fine. I wanted her childhood to be full of love and light and animals and friends.”

On finding peace with her ex after their bitter four-year custody battle: “[Alec and I are] cool now, though. Life goes on.”

On her career choices: “There were times I could have chosen [my movies] better. I did this film, The Marrying Man, where I met my eventual [now-ex] husband, Alec Baldwin, but I was teeter-tottering because I had also been offered Sleeping with the Enemy [which eventually starred Julia Roberts]. Isn’t it funny that I turned down Sleeping with the Enemy and then I went on to sleep with the enemy!”

On still believing in love: “I think it’s possible to date someone when you’re 20 and end up with them when you’re 55. Anything is possible. But my taste in men has changed a lot over the years. When you’re young you’re attracted to the ‘bad boy,’ only to find out that they’re actually just bullies or insecure – you’re attracted to fantasies.”

On dating: “Now, I’m more reality-based. As a sexual creature I’ve been attracted to a lot of different types, people that others have thought were unattractive. But showing kindness and humor are the most important things to me now. If you have those qualities then I think that makes you attractive.”

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