Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen 2010

Ashley Olsen in Gentlewoman

Do you still take a lot of decisions together?

Yes, but we're very different people. She's very free-spirited and wears her heart on her sleeve. I'm a little more internal.

Have those differences ever presented difficulties?

I guess when we were teenagers and finding our own identities. Mary-Kate was definitely the one who was more ready to do her own thing. She went horse-riding every day after work, she had her barn friends. I was the one holding on to the relationship.

Did you feel terrible rejection?

Not rejection. I just didn't really understand what was going on at the time. But now, it seems only natural; I was very maternal towards her. She'd always come back; there's never a complete separation between us.

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