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SUMMER TENTPOLE > BATTLESHIP<br />
Peter Berg really wanted to make sure you<br />
could handle the physicality of the movie.<br />
What was your audition like?<br />
I auditioned for the movie four times before<br />
I even got to meet Pete. In my last audition<br />
with him, he said to me, “If you want this<br />
part, I want to see snot bubbles bbles coming from<br />
your nose. You're freaking out, there's aliens<br />
attacking your boyfriend—I want you crying,<br />
I want snot coming from your nose,<br />
and if you can do all that, you get<br />
the movie.” I was like, “Okay,<br />
I've got to do this.” And I<br />
don't know what came over<br />
me, but snot was dripping<br />
from my nose, tears were<br />
coming from my eyes, I<br />
was screaming, he had<br />
his hand over my mouth,<br />
it was very chaotic. And<br />
then by the end of it, he<br />
was like, “Cool, thanks.<br />
See you soon.” I was like,<br />
“Okay...?” Three weeks later, he<br />
called and offered me the part.<br />
Somehow, the snot bubbles are<br />
what got me on Battleship.<br />
That seems like it'd be harder<br />
to do than it sounds—you're u're<br />
fighting natural human vanity.<br />
HE MAKES ME<br />
LAUGH. WITH<br />
ADAM SANDLER<br />
IN JUST GO WITH<br />
IT.<br />
I know! I feel like I'm a new actor. The whole<br />
emotional, crying, freaking-out thing is new<br />
to me and something that I have to work on.<br />
I don't know if it's because I had auditioned<br />
so many times, but I was just like, “Screw<br />
it—I have to go<br />
for it.” Plus, we're shooting in<br />
Hawaii. We're shooting with guns and doing a<br />
lot of stunts, shooting long days. It's incredible,<br />
but it's definitely<br />
hard work. I think he needed<br />
a team player who wasn't going to have to go<br />
to her trailer every five minutes. He wanted<br />
somebody who could get beat up a<br />
little bit, and I think somehow<br />
snot bubbles proved I could do<br />
all that.<br />
You were an athlete all<br />
through high school. How<br />
physical did the shoot get?<br />
We were shooting in the<br />
mountains, first of all, so there was<br />
a lot of hiking. Surprisingly, the<br />
conditions got a little tricky with<br />
mudslides and rainstorms. You were<br />
outside and quite literally in the<br />
trenches all day. I love hiking, I love<br />
kayaking, so it felt very natural for<br />
me to<br />
be in that kind of environ-<br />
ment.<br />
That part didn't feel like a<br />
stretch. But the part where I really<br />
had to<br />
train was the gun training,<br />
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