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Illeana Douglas

In 2008, after three TV pilots failed to be picked up, Illeana Douglas turned her attention to the smaller screen. Now she’s in her fourth season of ‘Easy To Assemble’-- the IKEA branded webseries. But this is not an ad-- at least not in the traditional sense.

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By Kim Masters • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

In 2008, after three TV pilots failed to be picked up, Illeana Douglas turned her attention to the smaller screen. Now she’s in her fourth season of ‘Easy To Assemble’-- the IKEA branded webseries. But this is not an ad-- at least not in the traditional sense. Douglas explains the rare creative freedom she gets (only two notes in four years) and how essentially IKEA has paid her to go to film school for the last four years.

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    Kim Masters

    partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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