| Interview continued.... Q:Do you speck French? A:I took French for six years throughout middle school and high school. I am absolutely terrible at it, I have no accent. My voabulary is big, but I can't understand people. Because I have no accent, I got virtually ignored the whole month that I was in Paris. I'd try to say anything and they'd be like, 'Oh, speak English.' So, we had a french tutor on set to help me get those six words that i said right. He made sure that i got them right. And I think I did, pretty much. I still felt uncomfortable. I'm just not good with the accent. But, I go to Columbia and I just started taking Spanish last year. And so, I really like Spanish. I'm good at that accent. Q:You've worked with some pretty good actors like Meryl Streep and Barbara Hershey. What have you learned from them? A:How not to take this whole thing seriously. I mean, It's really lame, if you ask me, how much actors get paid to do so little. And I think you have to keep that in mind at all times. You're slowly but surely turning into a prima donna. You jsut have to step back and go, 'Wait a minute, look at what i'm doing for a living. This is ridiculous. This is silly.' Q:Meryl Streep told us that acting is a hard life. The average reader might have trouble identifiying with that statement. A:You know what? That's definitely true. It's weird having strangers know who you are and just come up to you and start talking to you. It makes you feel a little uncomfortable. That kind of thing can be a problem. You get anxiety on the set sometimes, because you are basically being paid to wait around until they need you. So, you just wait and wait and hours go by. You're just sitting there, you feel like you should be doing something with your time. So, there's little things about it that are fustrating, but I wouldn't say it's hard. Q:What do you do during that off time? A:Lots of times I'm reading. It depends on the movie. It depends on what kind of situation i'm in. If the movie's kind of a breeze, then i'll be reading or....on A Soliders Daughter, for instance, I stayed in school. I was in my very first semester there. And i tried to do two months of schoolwork by myself. So, that was what i was doing when I wasn't working. next page. Back to interviews. |