Evan Rachel Wood

Yeah because Thirteen I felt like I could relate more to that character. With this one there’s comedy involved and I had never really done that. With a character like this, where there’s been so many similar characters, I really wanted to make her different and not just go with the easy one-dimensional, mean girl. I wanted to give her different colors and try to figure out where she was coming from and have moments where you do feel bad for her.

It was especially hard because this character has so much dialogue. The first ten minutes of the movie is just me ranting and talking. She is just pure venom and yet she still looks very sweet with a big smile on her face. But she was also very internal so you just had to see everything going on in her face and in her eyes. Having to mix all those things together was fun to play around with.

It just happens. When you just think about it and think about the way you’re saying it. The eyes are kind of unexplainable. It’s weird how you can stare into somebody’s eyes and know what they’re feeling and know what they’re thinking. I don’t know how to explain it, but I know that it just happens if you put yourself in the right mindset. Even if your face isn’t changing, you just kind of sense it and feel it for some reason.

Definitely, there’s this one girl from junior high in particular that I based Kimberly on. She would pretend to be your best friend and completely stab you in the back with a smile on her face.

I wish I was as fearless as he is. He always goes for the interesting part in the interesting movies and never goes for the big budget just going to do well at the box office kind of thing. He’s always doing something different. I can’t really compare one of his roles to another one of his roles. Watching him do this, he was just constantly ad-libbing too and we never knew what was going to come out of his mouth. You can see tears in my eyes in certain shots because I’m trying so hard not to laugh because he would just keep going and going. I think part of it was to see how far he could go before we broke down and just laughed. That’s definitely what I want, to go for it and not care and just do things that you’re really passionate about. He said that to me, just do good roles. That’s all you have to do and you’ll have a good career. You can’t lose if you just pick good interesting projects that you’re passionate about.

And they should be. That’s what we were going for. You don’t actually see anything and we weren’t actually anything doing anything so it’s all up to your imagination. We wanted them to be kind of gross and make you kind of cringe. What this girl is doing is really stinky.

Oh, that episode was so wrong. I was 15 when I did that.

I specialized in drama, so anything I do will be dark and dramatic. But all of the characters I’ve played seem pretty different than me and come from different places. I do feel like I worked some sweet roles in there too. I was a pretty sweet character in The Upside of Anger. Now I’m doing a musical.

It is light! It’s Beatles songs. We’ve been rehearsing for a couple of months trying to perfect all of the songs and the dances.

That was awesome. It has such a great cast. Working with Gwyneth Paltrow was great because you don’t know what to expect because she’s such a huge star. Then when you see her you really get the whole Gwyneth Paltrow thing and why she is so popular. She’s just got such this cool interesting beautiful face and she’s really talented. I loved watching her and this is a role she’s never really played before.

Yeah, that was amazing. I was such a huge fan of that book and it’s been the first time I ever got to do a movie based on one of my favorite books. Getting to hear him tell the real story and ask him about the real people was really cool and helpful. The whole cast just sat there and were mesmerized listened to him talk.

I haven’t for a while. I took acting classes for years. I don’t have a lot of time now.

Yeah, if something really special came along like Once and Again. I would definitely consider it. .

I’d love to start reading books and optioning things and trying to get some cool stories made. It’s so hard to find a good script so I might as well just find my own.

I definitely have those fans from Thirteen and I have met many of them. I can almost spot them on the street now; it’s a certain type of girl. I think it’s great and so cool. I feel like for some of the girls that I’m their voice.

Doing a lot of these movies is definitely like therapy. I probably would have a lip ring and dyed hair right now if I hadn’t gotten to act it out. It’s better if you get to do it for a month and try something on besides and get to move on to something else.

by Daniel Robert Epstein

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