Why is she wearing a cheerleading outfit?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead: I serve as the comic relief and play this naive actress who’s trying to hang out with the tough girls and trying to keep up with them, but really I just say stupid things and so they make fun of me all the time. I think she’s charming and fun to watch and hopefully people will like that character. I’m wearing a cheerleading outfit throughout the whole movie because I’m playing an actress playing a cheerleader in a fictional movie. It was Quentin’s idea and I know that he originally met Vanessa Ferlito when she was shooting Man of the House in Austin, which was about a bunch of cheerleaders, so I think it kind of spawned from that. MT: What was your favorite experience during the making of Grindhouse? MEW: The experience was phenomenal overall, but something that was really fun for me to be able to witness was watching Kurt Russell and Quentin Tarantino together, because they both have the same kind of childlike enthusiasm for filmmaking and they both just have
