Does the physicality in acting feel much different than in modeling?
Sometimes you have to do shoots where you’re jumping around and they’re looking for a moment, but I guess the difference with acting is that you have to aspire to have continuity and be a lot more real. Whereas modeling, you might jump backwards and forwards all day [laughs], and if you were to film that, it wouldn’t make any logical sense. The movements in acting need to be really relevant to what you’re doing. How did you prepare mentally for working with such experienced and esteemed actors and artists? I did my own preparation. I invested myself into thinking about who this girl was, and reading books that might be relevant, watching movies that might be a good influence–playing with different ideas of what she could be performing on the stage. That was all ambiguous fodder that I could try and take with me and then be on set and hopefully turn into something. With regards to the other actors, I was definitely intimidated by being so young and so new and being with such talented a
