gURL spoke with Kristen about playing a ballerina-wannabe, dealing with lots of rainy weather and spending so much time in a car. Check out our chat.
gURL: What made you want to play this part?
Kristen: When I read the script, it was one of those things that you get really excited about and then instantly really sick because you're not sure that you've got the part. I was sort of undeniably emotionally moved by it and I think just regarding the person that I played, she makes such a comeback. I feel like in the beginning she's so clearly disappointed in everything around her and that first time you see her she's rejected and that's what she's running from.
gURL: Can you identify with the whole teenage runaway attitude that you have in the film?
Kristen: I feel like [running away] was so not thought out. It's a pretty courageous thing to do to get in that car. And especially for a young girl, it can be considered silly. But I can identify with her in that she is doing something that is dangerous but that will ultimately be absolutely worth it. I can absolutely relate to that.
gURL: You guys must have spent a lot of time in the car. Any funny stories from filming?
Eddie:[For the scene] when we hit the [deer], we had a load of crew in the back with lights and all this stuff. And I had to do this screeching break as we hit this thing and I was like, "Be careful because I am screeching this car..."
Kristen: Again and again you said it.
Eddie: "...It's gonna be quite a jolt when we stop." And they said "No problem, man, no problem." And we did the scene and they cut to me and I break the car and I scream and this guy got all bruised out of the back! And I'm like, "I told you man, I told you."
gURL: Kristen, your character is into ballet in the movie. Did you have to take any ballet classes to prepare?
Kristen: Yeah. Something that was initially really daunting about the character was that she loved to dance and that she really used her physicality as a means of control and power. Before I did this movie I don't think I did a two-step. So I took some ballet lessons from these really hardcore ballerinas, but what I always thought about the character was that she wasn't really one to take a class. She sort of was like, "I really wanna do that." So then I didn't have to say that I was a trained ballerina, which I would never ever be able to accomplish in the two weeks that we had before we started shooting.
Eddie: Remember how obsessed you became with your dance shoes, though? Jazz pumps. You became obsessed.
Eddie: I have like, 16 pairs of these little white Capezios.
gURL: Eddie's character plays around with a disposable camera in the movie. Did you keep any souvenirs of the photos you took?
Eddie: We did, actually. The photos used in the scrapbook in the movie are ones we took of Kristen doing her dance.
gURL: Your characters are cut off from the outside world once Kristen's phone dies. Do you ever turn off your cell phones just to see what happens?
Kristen: I always turn my phone off and really infuriate a lot of people.
gURL: In the movie, a big storm hits and it's rainy and gloomy for a while. Have you ever lived in that kind of climate?
Kristen: I haven't had crazy weather... Wait a second -- what am I talking about? I just made three films in the Pacific Northwest. I know the depression that is the cold west.
gURL: So does the dark weather really mess with your mood?
Kristen: Yeah, absolutely. I think that's sort of undeniable. If you're cold for three months and you're always trying to stay dry...
Eddie: It's interesting, though. In London we used to have horrific weather. But when I came to LA, the expectation is for continual sunshine. You expect it to be the perfect Hollywood dream and when it's not, it can be mildly depressing.
Lily: Have you learned anything interesting about each other since you spent so much time together?
Kristen: There's nothing interesting to learn about this guy.
Eddie: There's nothing interesting to learn about her.
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