Did you have a chance to talk to pros like Helen Mirren and Brendan about career advice?
Eliza: Yeah. After Inkheart, I’m meeting American agents at the moment so it’s going into a different world for me. It’s great to have people like Brendan and Paul and Helen and, at the end of this film I feel like I have a support network. Brendan is always like ‘if you’re doing this, ring me and give me a call and I’ll tell you whether this agent is any good or whether you should go with this person or stay away from this person’. And Iain is like that and Paul and it’s like they are second fathers. They’re quite protective and everything. I can easily feel comfortable enough to talk to them. We were on the film during Helen’s “Queen” period so she was picking up awards left and right and got her Oscar in the middle of while we were shooting. TeenHollywood: That must have been cool on set. What was that like when she won? Eliza: It was amazing to experience that with her and for her to stay so grounded through everything and just have genuine excitement to win an Oscar is just incred
