Later, Lindvall decamped to LA and flirted with acting. She had already starred in director Roman Coppola’s 2001 film debut, the sci-fi spoof CQ, and in 2005 she landed a part in the well-received crime caper Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. But having already spent a decade hopscotching the globe, Lindvall says, “starting all over again as an actress was a little daunting. I didn’t really have the ambition.” Nor did she have the bandwidth to keep up with the entertainment business. When pushed to name the last TV show she watched with any regularity, there’s a long pause before she tentatively offers up Full House. “I’m embarrassed when I go to these Hollywood events and I don’t know who anyone is,” she says. “I mean, I saw a few episodes of Friends….”
Increasingly, she found herself troubled by online reports on the state of the environment: teeming landfills, factory farming, dire climate predictions. “Everybody knows about the newest handbag or the latest celebrity scandal, but nobody seems to know what’s going on in the world.”
With that in mind, Lindvall spent the early aughts getting her Collage Foundation off the ground. The nonprofit was dedicated to bringing artists and activists together to increase environmental awareness, particularly by creating small farms to help sustain communities. It was hard work, fundraising while also raising a family (Lindvall now had a second son, Sebastian), but she was finally on a happier path. Then, in 2006, she and Edwards split. A few months later, her younger sister, Audrey, was struck and killed by a truck while riding her bicycle near their hometown. “My life caved in on me,” Lindvall says. “I realized I was trying to save the planet; meanwhile, my world was falling apart. And that’s when I really went on an inward journey of self-healing.”
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