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Bright Star has been hailed as Campion’s comeback, and already she’s writing a new murder-mystery TV series, about a female detective who goes in search of a missing 12-year-old girl in a colony of “postmenopausal women—what they call the invisible tribe,” she says. “There’s all sorts of love affairs and relationships in it, but none of them are conventional. There’s nobody yearning after the old nuclear family.”
And neither is Campion. “I see how joyous it is to be a woman in her 50s—so free,” she says. “I don’t need anyone to look at me.”
