Chlo Sevigny’s résumé is rather outstanding. She’s worked with Lars Von Trier, Whit Stillman, David Fincher, and a slew of other cult directors since her debut in Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s Kids in 1992. She’s authored books, modeled, and designed outfits, and she’s become enough of an indie culture hero to have her own spoof web series. Despite all of her accomplishments over the previous two decades, the issue surrounding 2003’s Brown Bunny, in which Sevigny performed “unsimulated fellatio” on costar Vincent Gallo, is one that we constantly seem to return to.

There were incorrect allegations that her then-representatives at the William Morris Agency dismissed her before the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. (She is still represented by the agency.) It was another epoch. Paris Hilton’s sex video hadn’t even been released yet, and it appeared like Sevigny’s career would be irrevocably tainted by one scene.

Of course, the actress was agnostic about it at the time, and she is even more so today. Especially because, as it turns out, the event did not harm her career.

“I think it was a way of kind of reclaiming myself, which sounds odd, but after the celebrity and stuff, being like: ‘No, that’s not who I am, I’m this other thing, and this is what I stand for.’ Or wanting to push the envelope,” she told IndieWire co-founder Eugene Hernandez.

This weekend, Sevigny attended the Provincetown International Film Festival to promote Kitty, a short film about a girl who changes into a cat. The Brown Bunny scandal was brought up again during an interview with Indiewire’s Eugene Hernandez at the event about her recent accomplishment.

“I thought it would just kind of play to an art house audience, I don’t know why I thought it would just go under the radar. Vincent’s a real character. I love ‘Buffalo 66.’ I put my faith in him, believed in him. He’s also very seductive, as you can imagine… I think it was a way of kind of reclaiming myself, which sounds odd, but after the celebrity and stuff, being like: ‘No, that’s not who I am, I’m this other thing, and this is what I stand for.’ Or wanting to push the envelope. Like John [Waters], who’s here.” Sevigny gestured to Waters, who called out from the audience: “I loved the ‘The Brown Bunny’! The insects on the windshield…”

Sevigny also stated that she did not believe the role had a significant impact on her career, but it may have had an impact on some of her personal relationships.

“I got my first studio film after that. I’d never been offered a studio film. It was Zodiac. I don’t think it really hurt me, necessarily. I mean, it hurt me, in a lot of ways… Some relationships have had trouble with it. Of course, my mom and I don’t talk about it.”

Clearly, Sevigny’s work has not deteriorated as a result of this or any of the numerous problems that have plagued her career. But the fact that we keep asking and talking about something that happened 14 years ago when Chlo is now a 42-year-old very successful lady attempting to market her directorial debut is as demeaning as continuing to refer to an adult as a “it girl.”