| Interview continued.... Q:Do you feel like you have to move to L.A. at some point? A:No. I think I can stay in New York. And I look forward to moving to New York at some point. I mean, I'm living here now, basically, but i'm still based at home. Over this summer, I've been living at home, just doing nothing with my old high school friends. And so, I think one day, I'd like to do it, if everything works out according to plan, I'd like to spend the hotter months in New York and then wintertime in L.A. Q:Whats the tougher choice, Paris or New York? A:I think that New York. New York's the greatest place in the world. Q:Did you have to audition for this part? A:I auditioned once, came back and met Jim Ivory and they hired me. But we had a long period of like them asking me, 'Are you going to make this movie or not?' And me being, ' I don't no.' Because i was waiting to get permission from a committee at Columbia to miss two months of school and yet still be enrolled. I didn't want to have to drop out. And they took their time about that. Q:How did you make up the work? A:I did all the work while i was in Paris and in North Carolina. I just did it all. And then took makeup final exams. I had already taken the midterm tests....it was right after midterms when i left (school). And so, right after midterms, I spent the whole second half of the semester just studying on my own, reading supplementary material, writing supplementary papers and then i had to pass the final. That was the crouton on top of the salad. Q:Was this script ever changed because of the language? A:There wasn't a scene with French in it, originally, and we wanted to add some. And we kind of tested out my French and decided how much to add, how much it sounded like i really spoke French. And it was minimal. So, if I had paid more attention to it in high school, i would have had a bigger French scene. So, I look back and go, 'Man, I should have done by homework!' Back to interviews. |