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COVER STORY > DARK SHADOWS<br />
A<br />
TEENAGE<br />
DREAM TO BE<br />
ON THE SET WITH<br />
TIM BURTON AND<br />
A ’70S TIGER<br />
BEAT<br />
through these stages where you’re laughing,<br />
and then you’re really scared, and then you’re<br />
laughing again but you don’t know why you’re<br />
laughing because you’re kind of scared. It’s<br />
this amazing roller coaster of all these feelings,<br />
and at the same time, you’ll be crying because<br />
you’re like, “Oh my gosh, I’m feeling so much<br />
at one time.” That’s what’s special about Tim<br />
is he breaks down the movie and puts every<br />
piece together, and he’s so hands-on with his<br />
actors. He’s more hands-on than anyone I’ve<br />
ever worked with.<br />
The original show was famous for shooting<br />
scenes in one take. If Tim had gone that<br />
way to make the film really capture that<br />
offbeat tone, would you have been game<br />
for the risk?<br />
That’d be really fun. It’s definitely a modernday<br />
movie where there’s tons of different takes<br />
in one scene, but I’d love to do a movie like<br />
that. It’d be like doing a play. It’d be kind of<br />
scary, but definitely interesting to try to tackle.<br />
Sometimes, you’ll mess up a line and be like,<br />
“Line!” and you’ll have to cut and do it again.<br />
It’s hard when you’re working with stunts and<br />
stunt people where you have to shade in that<br />
they’re doing the stunt. In the TV show, they<br />
didn’t have crazy stunts, so it was a little different<br />
than doing this type of movie. There’s<br />
definitely some really cool stunts that actors<br />
are not allowed to do. You could do it in one<br />
take, but it’d have to be more like a drama.<br />
Are you still able to do all the stunts you<br />
learned from Kick-Ass? You’ve been busy<br />
with so many other types of films, have<br />
you been able to keep up with the physical<br />
training too?<br />
Definitely. I love doing my own stunts. Every<br />
film I do where there’s a stunt, I always go<br />
straight to the director and go, “Look. I<br />
was trained for a very long time when I was<br />
younger and I know how to do a stunt, and I<br />
know how to do it the right way, and I know<br />
how to not get hurt.” I tell them I want to do<br />
most of my stunts—as long as it’s cleared by<br />
insurance and it’s safe. Sometimes, they’ll be<br />
like, “Insurance will not cover it—you cannot<br />
do this, we can’t put you in that danger.” But<br />
in this movie, I do 90 percent of my stunts.<br />
There’s two different stunts that I don’t do, but<br />
then I have this amazing stunt that I worked<br />
with my stunt girl on—she’s so good.<br />
Congratulations on just landing the lead in<br />
Carrie. What is it about the role that you<br />
find fascinating?<br />
Thanks! It’s an amazing role, and I’m so excited<br />
to get in there and try to tackle it and see what I<br />
can change up. It’s already been done, and there’s<br />
already been the amazing, amazing, amazing<br />
Sissy Spacek version of it, but what I really want<br />
to do is spice it up and take a more modern,<br />
younger approach to it because I am going<br />
through what Carrie is going through. She’s<br />
figuring out who she is, and I just really want to<br />
get in there and see what I can do, feel it out.<br />
You’ve been able to pick interesting<br />
characters, but I feel like most films written<br />
with parts for kids make the children<br />
way too innocent. Do you think that adults<br />
forget what being a kid is like?<br />
That’s one of the reasons I really wanted to<br />
do Carrie, actually, is there’s something really<br />
special about getting the age perfect on<br />
a character. When you pass a a certain age,<br />
you have to try and remember what it was<br />
like living though that age. When you are<br />
that age, you’re living through it so it’s fresh<br />
and it’s there and you know exactly how you<br />
would react. If you’re going to get into a<br />
heated conversation, as an older person, you’re<br />
going to be really defending yourself. But as a<br />
younger person, if you’re talking to someone<br />
you really, really respect, you’re going to allow<br />
their words to affect you somewhat before you<br />
end up defending yourself in the end. So it’s<br />
a different spectrum. It’s very slight and it’s<br />
not even bad or good—it just makes it fresher<br />
when you’ve got that vulnerability. It’s like<br />
cornering a dog. The dog’s going to be scared,<br />
but once you corner the dog too much, it’s<br />
going to bite you.<br />
Is there an actress whose career you’d<br />
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