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Calgary Expo: Helen Hunt talks Twister, As Good as it Gets, Paul Reiser and what her dream role would be

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Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Helen Hunt talks to Victor Dandridge at Calgary Expo .

She says she wants to enter the world of Jedis and droids and the Force.

Hunt rose to fame during her seven-season run as Jamie Buchman in Mad About You in the 1990s .

She won an Oscar for her role as a single mom dealing with an erratic Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets.

Hunt played storm-chaser Jo Harding in Twister , a 1996 blockbuster in which Hunt played Jo Harding .

Hunt says she is nothing like that character.

“I’m very sensitive to what people say, I care about my kid in a fierce way, although I didn’t have a kid when i did that part,” she says.

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