For the role in An American Crime, when I played someone who was starved and tortured, I lost a lot of weight, and my body and my mind were drained. After that people told me, You really need to do a comedy. And I said I am -- I`m playing a 16-year-old wh...
It was an intense movie and the response was polarized -- which was great, because it stuck in people`s minds. That film has helped me immensely. [On Hard Candy.]
I loved that this girl was mature in some ways, and naive in other ways. Juno is different from what we normally see in films about teenagers -- but at the same time she has a lot in common with most of the people I knew in high school. There are a lot of...