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00:00I know this one. Oh yeah. I know this too. You guys think you're gonna get me and you're not.
00:06Except I don't know this.
00:12Okay. I'm excited.
00:20I know this one. I look at you and go dry like sand. But I didn't say it in that
00:26accent. I said
00:28yeah. I look at you and go dry like sand. Which is from the great. I look at you and
00:35go dry like sand.
00:37The lines in that show that we had to say were so spectacular. So hard to memorize. But Tony
00:45McNamara wrote that show. He's an absolute genius. The lines were so much of the show and the jokes
00:52and just the very specific rhythm and way of speaking. So we had to be very word perfect
00:57and punctuation perfect. And so if you forgot an and it would be like oh like oh god we got
01:02to go
01:02again you know. But I love the challenge of that. I think I was 20 when I filmed the pilot.
01:09Maybe
01:092021. And then I filmed it and you know up until I was 25 years old. And so Catherine just
01:15kind of
01:16became. She was in my soul at that point. I was a lot like her. She was a lot like
01:20me. We were kind
01:20of meshing. Season three. Oh gosh it was sad that we had to end. We definitely I would have wanted
01:28to
01:28keep going forever and ever. But I really love the ending of season three with the dance. And I picked
01:34that song. The ACDC shook me all night long. You know Catherine the Great. She lived until she was
01:39quite old actually. And she had her son murdered to stay in charge. That is very our show. I'm like
01:47Tony meet me in you know meet me in 20 years. I'll come back. Yeah. Okay. You're my fairy godmother.
01:57Again English accent. I know this one too. Maleficent. Maleficent. One. You're my fairy godmother.
02:07You're my fairy godmother. And I probably sounded my voice was lower. I was 14 when I did the
02:15Maleficent movie. She was always my favorite because she had blonde hair and she wore pink.
02:19Cinderella wears blue. Sleeping Beauty's dress is pink. So as a little girl I was like she's my
02:23favorite princess. You know obviously working with Angelina was incredible. And her daughter played me
02:28young in this one. Vivian because all the other kids were scared of her Maleficent costume. But
02:36she was the only child who wasn't scared. So she played me in some of the flashback scenes.
02:40And I don't remember if it was this day but Kobe Bryant actually visited the set. Because his wife
02:46and his daughters were really big fans of Sleeping Beauty and they love Disney. And so I got to meet
02:52Kobe Bryant. Okay. Let's see. Oh yeah. I know this too. This. Okay. I can't sing. I can't dance. I
03:04can't write.
03:05No real talent. But I'm pretty. And I can make money off pretty. Oh lord. This is kind of the
03:12theme of that
03:12whole film. This is from the Neon Demon. I can't sing. I can't dance. I can't write. No real talent.
03:21I had seen Drive. And I loved Drive. Ryan Gosling was my you know my ultimate crush always when I
03:28was
03:28growing up. And in school. And so I'm like of course I love Drive. I have the jacket and everything.
03:33And I think with the Neon Demon it was just kind of the perfect time. It was after I'd done
03:37the first
03:38Maleficent movie. And you know you're like I love being a princess. But hey like I can do this too.
03:44And it's quite subversive. And you know some people are like you know in Cannes we had booze. We had
03:48cheers. And I had my prom night in Cannes. I went to other proms. But my senior prom actually fell
03:55on
03:55that premiere. I loved working with Nick and kind of collaborating on that. Because he really brought me
03:59into the process. He films chronologically which I'd never done before. So he's writing kind of the
04:04ending of the script as you're going along. It's like we had one. But he was like if anyone has
04:09any
04:09ideas you can put it in a bucket. So like the crew would put some things into the bucket to
04:15see. I
04:15don't know if it was a crew idea how it ended. It had to be from Nick's crazy mind I'm
04:21sure. But
04:22Nick would just be yelling more blood more blood more glitter more blood oh yeah okay I know this.
04:35At first I was like what I can't get a handle on her you know the more that I study
04:40her the more
04:41lost I feel trying to be her. This is from sentimental value. I can't get a handle on her you
04:48know. I was
04:49also doing the predator film in New Zealand and they were filming at the exact same time and there
04:54really wouldn't be a possible way. Somehow like both studios kind of worked together and really
05:00Badlands also kind of restructured a little bit so I could finish so I would be able to go
05:06in time to go film sentimental value in Norway from New Zealand to Norway. There was not a day in
05:13between I got on that flight to Paris and drove to Deauville straight from New Zealand and then
05:19had a fitting and was working with Stellan on the beach the next day. He was a kid actor we
05:23like to
05:24say we have that in common we can sniff another kid actor out from across the room so Stellan kind
05:30of understood me in that way and he's just the gentlest the funniest I mean he is also really fun
05:36to party
05:37with. All right oh he drank that morning my dad he missed his shift. You guys think you're gonna get
05:46me and you're not this is from Super 8. He drank that morning my dad he missed his shift. I
05:59was the
06:00youngest of the group I was 12 but I was one of the tallest and I remember the auditioning process
06:06on
06:06that was like grueling. I mean we it was months but it was interesting because I think with me JJ
06:13always
06:14thought I was too young and so I went in the first time and I hadn't had my kind of
06:18crazy growth spurt
06:19yet. I've always been taller but I was still kind of on the younger side. I think he met me
06:24probably
06:25when I was like 11 and he was just like no like all the kids wanted this and we had
06:31no idea what it was.
06:33The script that I auditioned for was that camp movie Little Darlings. Those were the sides from
06:42Little Darlings. We're like yeah JJ Abrams totally remaking Little Darlings like no he's not but he
06:48wouldn't give the sides out because he's so secretive with the scripts. What happened was then he did a
06:53search I mean a wide search for all the boys and girls you know and then he started to like
06:57mix and
06:57match and bring people in but this was months later so then I grew like crazy inches and so
07:03yeah I came in and then we I was with mixing and matching with like the boys that day. JJ
07:10called
07:10us on the phone like a couple days later each individual kid and said like you got the part
07:15and like what? Then we're like what's the story? I know these. Except I don't know this.
07:25I'm your Louise. I'm your Louise. I'm your Louise. But I don't think I've ever played a Louise.
07:33Louise? Lois. Louise. I don't know this. Oh it's Lou. It's Lou. It's Death Stranding.
07:42I'm your Louise. Nick Refn is very good friends with Kojima and so Nick told me like I'm in the
07:49game like George Miller's in the game you know like you can be in the game and I'm like oh
07:55that's
07:55really cool and so we kind of opened my world up to this kind of whole new side because I
08:00didn't
08:00really grow up like playing the video games and stuff and we've shot the motion capture in California
08:05but where they you know shot Avatar and everything so we were in the suits and had the headgear and
08:10you
08:10know we don't shoot every single scene that way but a lot of them are and we're really acting and
08:14he's directing us. You're like what I'm looking at a big squid okay like you know okay okay okay
08:23oh I have a fan this is Margot's Got Money Troubles. I have a fan. Rufie Thorpe wrote it and
08:32it's just
08:32an incredible book like it's one of those that you can see the characters are so vivid they're so bold
08:37and it was a book that came to my sister and I's production company called Llewellyn Pictures.
08:42My sister and I we work really well together we really balance each other out but we have very
08:46similar tastes but also like our attention to our to different things which is really nice and a lot
08:52of the time she's like my interpreter because I can get a little up in the clouds and she's like
08:58she's trying to say this it does make sense. I mean hey keep it in the family it's it's so
09:03nice
09:03and the show is is about a family kind of how love conquers all in kind of tough situations
09:10sometimes so to be working on that project with my sister and to get to support each other like that
09:15and have her around and on set and be able to watch cuts and talk about it together it's like
09:21it's a dream you know. Go out there and make them remember you. That is Effie Trinket that is Hunger
09:33Games
09:34Sunrise on the Reaping. Go out there and make them remember you. Boy I can't believe I'm a part of
09:41the
09:41Hunger Games like I never would have thought I'm like there will never be a part for me like I
09:47don't
09:47and to hear that I got the news of like they asked me to play Effie was a dream. I
09:52mean I got my
09:53butterflies in today a little homage but I grew up with the Hunger Games films the books I love them
10:00watched every single one and I love Effie so much. I mean Elizabeth Banks what she created with that
10:08character and also the layers and the nuance to that character because and it's interesting because
10:13obviously now I'm playing a younger version and it's like balancing that. I took a lot of inspiration
10:19for her from her obviously would watch all the YouTube fan compilations to kind of get try to get
10:25her accent. I work with a dialect coach but I still if I needed a little refresh in my trailer
10:30I'd like
10:30go to YouTube and be like hey Elizabeth like say that word or give me something. Bucket list for sure.
10:43you