Vancouver, Canada
INTERVIEW DATE: AUGUST 30, 2007

THE UNINVITED revolves around Anna (Emily Browning), who returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father (David Strathairn) has become engaged to her mother’s former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks). That night, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her of Rachel's intentions. Together, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.

BD: Well, did you guys watch the original film, and what did you think of it? And I know that you're a fan of Asian horror movies...

Arielle Kebbel: Of course, naturally. You would hope so, at this point anyway.

Emily Browning: Yeah. I, you watched it up, this other film, right?

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah. You watched it, yeah.

Emily Browning: I watched it just after I read the original script ages ago. And I really liked it. I think it was like really beautifully shot and really cool but so confusing. And I think that's, I mean, so I see why there's room for a remake. But, I mean, it, I guess, it's, we're trying to do it without dumbing it down too much, do you know what I mean? Even though with the first one, I don't know who has seen the first one, it’s like, I have to actually take breaks from it and sort of just collect myself and figure out what was going on 'cause it's really confusing. So, I guess that's where, why the remake is happening.

BD: Well, it's not linear. How about this one?

Emily Browning: Not, there's flashback stuff and there's weird stuff, but it's not as sort of scattered as the other one.

Arielle Kebbel: And also I think we both agreed when we saw it that we, there was a lot of, like, touching between sisters and a certain, very cool intimacy that they had in their relationship. And it was really important to both of us that we kept that in this, you know, in just sort of telling our story and small things that we did. And, and, you know, like there's this bedroom scene in the original, not the bedroom scene. That sounds really kinky. There's this scene where, you know, they sleep together in the same bed, and that's something that sisters do...

Emily Browning: You still…

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah, I am. Anyways, go and see this film, it's X-rated. There are certain things, you know, stroking to her hair and just, there's a certain intimacy and exchange of relationship and trust that they have that we, both of us thought was really important just...

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: ...make sure it translates in this film as well, that we don’t lose that just because it's a PG-13 movie.

Emily Browning: Yeah. There's, like, kind of a few things that we had to take from the original movie and kind of do something similar. But at the same time, we didn’t, we're not making the same film in an English version, do you know what I mean? Because the original film is awesome. It's really excellent. And I know it has, like, a huge fan base. So, we're not trying to make the same film again. We're just, we have taken a lot of elements from it, yeah.

BD: Emily, how you've been into Anna's, like, state of mind and she has some major issues going on, how did you...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: I know. And...

Arielle Kebbel: She's perfectly sane.

Emily Browning: ...it was especially, it was especially difficult for me because I only knew I was playing Anna really close to, I mean, I auditioned originally for Alex.

Arielle Kebbel: And she got the part. Let's just make that clear.

Emily Browning: And then it just didn’t, it kind of, really close to filming, it kind of worked out that they just thought they wanted me to play Anna instead, and they really wanted Arielle to do Alex. So, it was actually, I was, I mean, it was a rush sort of thing at the end.

Arielle Kebbel: It was very bizarre.

Emily Browning: Trying to go from this character who's kind of, you know, kind of bad ass but a lot more, a lot kind of like happier in a way, to this character who sort of, still very much a child but really quite screwed up. So, it's kind of, I don't know, I mean, there's a lot of scenes where it's just kind of, there's a lot of normal sisterly exchanges. And it's kind of, it's, I don’t need to be too deep about it, but then there's a lot of stuff where, I don’t know, I just need to be left alone, kind of, 'cause it's pretty, I mean, she's pretty insane.

And I said to the directors the other day that, I haven’t even done it intentionally, but in a lot of the scenes, I noticed I actually developed like a voice in my head pretty much, just constantly telling me that I'm crazy, which is really, really strange. But it's just this natural thing with Anna that I've developed, that whenever I'm talking, you know, in a scene, even if I'm just speaking normally to Arielle, there's this little voice. So, I guess that's kind of...

Arielle Kebbel: She's gone.

Emily Browning: But we're only halfway through, so I don’t know.

Arielle Kebbel: And also, I think it’s really interesting that what she wanted to do with the character, I think, is really important, is that the obvious thing is that, you know, Alex is supposed to be sort of the stronger one, and Anna is, you now, the weak one or whatever. But that's not really the case at all. I mean, that's how it's scripted. But I think the fun part about both, what we've brought is that it's very obvious for Alex because she's the sarcastic one. It would be obvious to make her like sort of the badass girl that hates the world, and to make Anna like the weak sort of an insecure girl. And, in fact, they crossover quite a bit, you know, although Alex is sarcastic and frustrated with the household situation. She's really like hardheaded and she has a fun spirit and a zest for life about her. And Anna is really strong, I mean, that is what allows her to do, like all of these things. And, you know, it was really important to Emily to not make her weak.

And I think that's part of the reason why Alex needs her to be around so much, you know, is because we do have that exchange with one another. And, I think, that's why were both really brilliant in this.

BD: So, Emily, playing such an intense role, do you, are you keeping to yourself, or are you able to just, get of it and...

Emily Browning: I think, if I stayed in the role the whole time, I would, you know, go insane. I think, you have, I think that's really important if you're gonna be doing a dramatic role, but you have to know when to get out of it and when to be in it. So, I'm not really a method actor or anything. I just, it's usually just you need, in intense scenes, you need your space but not really, I'm kind of still totally normal on the weekends.

BD: Do you guys hang out together off the set, 'cause I know you have a track record of hanging out with your co-stars in Vancouver?

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah. We actually hate each other.

Emily Browning: Yeah. She's a bitch but...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah. Oh.

Emily Browning: ..it's not really a topic that [we disuss]. No. We lived in the same place. So, we sort of...

Arielle Kebbel: And we have both of our boyfriends have the last name of Turner.

Emily Browning: Yes. So, it had, it like...

Arielle Kebbel: So, it's a bit weird because...

Emily Browning: We've gone away on the weekends with our boyfriends and stuff, so we're pretty, it's good having, being able to have someone else.

Arielle Kebbel: We're two sisters...

Emily Browning: Yeah. We're...

Arielle Kebbel: ..that are dating boyfriends...

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: ...with the same last name.

Emily Browning: When we, actually, when we first met at the audition we got, like, totally the wrong impression of each other. Like, she thought...

Arielle Kebbel: Oh, yeah.

Emily Browning: ...I was really shy and introvert. And then, I thought she was really like...

Arielle Kebbel: Scary.

Emily Browning: I was actually terrified of her. And then, so when we first came to set, Arielle said, oh, we should go out for dinner, and I was like, okay. (MAKES NOISE) And I was like, this is gonna be so awkward. When we got, and there we just sort of hit it up immediately.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: We just could talk.

BD: How did you guys hit it off, like...

Arielle Kebbel: Just talking, gabbing away.

Emily Browning: Well, we, first of all with boys, like we, I said, let's go and get Japanese food. And that's one of her, like, we just had the same, there are similar things...

Arielle Kebbel: We have the same interest.

Emily Browning: …we got there, and we were ordering the same thing, and we just started talking.

Arielle Kebbel: We like to order tons of food, and just like taking a bunch of stuff, and then...

Emily Browning: Yes. So we like to do the same thing 'cause we just kind of have fun talking about it.

Arielle Kebbel: We have the same, yeah, and we have like, at the audition we were wearing the exact same shoes.

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: And then we realized we brought a lot of same clothes to Canada. And then, the whole boyfriends were at the same last name, and then food, and...

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: ...I don't know, it's just all that...

Emily Browning: It was just easy for us to talk straight away.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: Yeah, kind of.

BD: Given that this movie is actually probably shooting for your demographic. This movie seemed to be made pretty much for people that in your demos, so do you feel that this, I mean, are they listening to you a little bit more since you're like the target audience, and you're kind of like, the only representatives?

Emily Browning: I think, that we’re pretty lucky, 'cause the...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: ...the directors are really, I mean, we rehearsed quite a lot. And like, more intensely that I've rehearsed for anything before reeling it. It feels like, maybe, it's because I'm older, it's the first, I mean, I took two years off to finish high school, so it's the first film I've done being 18. But they just seemed to, they listened to us, and it seems like we have a lot of input.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah. And I think that, actually, the, both the producers and the writer, one of our producers has done a lot of the rewrite for the script. And I think, we've been very fortunate because we have like, we sort of spent time talking about, obviously, I have a bit different lingo than Emily has 'cause she's Australian. And, but we also do have some the same sort of like teenage common words or slang words that we both use. And when we discover we both use them, we thought it would be cool to sort of throw that in the script and just making a bit more relatable to the teenage audience that is gonna be watching it.

And, the boys, the directors and the producers were all for it. And, you know, there's been a lot of times where we've got in the set and suddenly been like, oh, my gosh, you know, the scene doesn’t even work. I would never...

Emily Browning: Yeah, sometimes, yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: ...say this, you would say that.

Emily Browning: And we're pretty, we're both pretty stubborn as well. So, if we're gonna say this, with that, no one would say that.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: So, we're just gonna...

Arielle Kebbel: And they go with it.

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: So, thank God.

Emily Browning: 'Cause I mean, no matter how good writers are, I always find that it's really hard for a writer to write a teenage character realistically, and seem like they're talking, like in a contemporary way. And I think so, they've kind of listened to us, because they're just sort of, you know, no matter how fantastic this scene is...[or] how fantastic the whole storyline is, sometimes the teenage writing, a little bit off, so we just...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

BD: So, as representatives then of the target demo, and as of the question that I've asked other people, over the day is, what, could you explain the popularity of the genre? As people that are consuming the genre, no one's been able to explain why the genre has certainly become so popular?

Emily Browning: Well, I don’t know if we can explain it, really.

Arielle Kebbel: We have the answer.

BD: Do you guys watch it?

Arielle Kebbel: You’ve come to the right place.

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: I think, we...I, when you say genre, are you talking like, specifically like these Asian remakes of what, like the horror films or just horror in general, or thriller?

BD: It's, however you want to relate to the question. I mean I'm speaking about, sort of just, you know, it can be Asian horror teen slasher, whatever. But however you want to handle the question, what you guys personally relate to.

Arielle Kebbel: What, I don’t think that's what this is, which is why I was attracted to it. I mean, I definitely did the horror with The Grudge 2, but I think this is more of...

Emily Browning: I think this is a different, than a lot of the Asian remakes, definitely.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah, and this is more like it reminded me when I read it of sort of like, you know, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle or What Lies Beneath, where you have those thrilling moments where, you know, it sort of takes your breath away and there's a but, you know, the reason that I really, really the only thing that qualifies this as a horror film is because of the, I mean...

Emily Browning: Careful.

Arielle Kebbel: What I meant to say...

Emily Browning: It's not, well, it's not like, it's not gore, if you're, I mean… I think it's more of a thriller. It's, there's not really any gore or in there.

Arielle Kebbel: I don’t quite know what I can say. Emily Browning: It’s, this, it's kind of, it's a twisty story. And it's, that's why I was worried about this interview, it's so hard to talk too much about it, because you can’t give anything away, like...

Arielle Kebbel: And we sort of just want the, yeah, I think that it's, you know, the audience is gonna experience different things, and think different things. And I just, I think it's important to both of us that they just experience it. So, really we don’t want to talk, we're just hanging out.

BD: But you guys watch these movies, you guys are fans of the, of scary, let’s just say this is a scary film and whatever way, it promises fear. So, you guys are fans of scary movies?

Emily Browning: Yeah.

BD: Why?

Emily Browning: I guess it's just...

Arielle Kebbel: We're extremists. And it's, an adrenaline thing, I suppose. Yeah, we're just extremists.

Emily Browning: It’s kind of like, why do teenagers enjoy, you know, roller coasters and go, well, some do and some don’t. But it's, I think it's definitely an adrenaline thing, which I, is what's cool about this film is that people who like films that are written cleverly will enjoy it. But it also has this sort of fear elements that is that same kind of thrill-seeking thing.

Arielle Kebbel: Mm hmm.

Emily Browning: And the reason that people watch like, slasher films and things like that.

Arielle Kebbel: Mm hmm.

BD: Emily, can you talk about your fight scene with Elizabeth?

Emily Browning: Well….

Arielle Kebbel: I love it.

Emily Browning: Okay.

Arielle Kebbel: I love it in the original, too.

BD: Did you have, do you have a fight scene with her?

Arielle Kebbel: No, I just love theirs. But in the original it was great, too.

Emily Browning: Well, it was intense, it was like the first sort of action thing I've ever filmed. I don’t know really what I can tell you, but it's, there was some bludgeoning involved with. It's, yeah, I don’t know it was, I mean it's tough. It's, I could not imagine shooting an action film and having to do scenes like that every day. Like, I was the, for the week after the fight scene, I was, my whole body was just in pain. And it, it's not even the long scene, it's like, really quick.

And I, it's just kind of I don’t know, it's, it'll be entertaining for a few reasons. I mean, it's two girls in not very much clothing beating each other up on the ground so, I don’t know. But yeah, I can’t really talk about the, I don’t know what's the, I don’t know to say about it, really except that it was tough.

BD: Have you done any green screen?

Emily Browning: Mm hmm. It's very, the directors very much want everything to be real, the film.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah, the directors I...

Emily Browning: There's not, it's not a special effects film, at all, really.

Arielle Kebbel: This brought, the film looks beautiful, and I think they've brought a certain elegance to the film and to the screen.

Emily Browning: It's the British thing.

Arielle Kebbel: It is. It totally is. And the way that they tell the story, it just looks very classy, you know?

Emily Browning: It's not...

Arielle Kebbel: There's a class to it, and...

Emily Browning: Yeah, it doesn't have that sort of big [?] but that big kind of American like, sort of, you know, like I said, there's no, not really any special effects, really, except maybe tiny things they need to touch up, not really any CGIs, just kind of really subtle and very...

Arielle Kebbel: Basically just on our face.

Emily Browning: Yeah, they'll see our face.

Arielle Kebbel: They changed a lot with that but that's pretty much all the, they use it for, yeah.

BD: Because the directors are siblings, did you kick anything from them, watching them work together?

Emily Browning: Yeah. It's...

Arielle Kebbel: The Tale Of Two Brothers?

Emily Browning: Yeah. I don't know, they're...

Arielle Kebbel: They're adorable.

Emily Browning: They are. They're amazing.

Arielle Kebbel: And sometimes they finish each other’s sentences. They definitely have the same facial expressions.

Emily Browning: Yeah. I guess we sort of, we've hang out with them a lot, and so...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: ...it's kind of, when it’s the two of them, it automatically makes us feel more like it's the two of us.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: Do you know what I mean?

BD: So is that why you finish each other’s sentences?

Emily Browning: Yeah, I know. We know.

BD: Something you picked up from them.

Emily Browning: I know. We...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: We, it's sort of the realization, it just hit me now that we've...

Arielle Kebbel: Been doing that. We're really lucky. I think that's very lucky.

Emily Browning: Yes. I mean if we, if Alex is being played by someone I didn’t like, I think it would have definitely affected the film, I'm not that good of an actress. So I think we've been extreme lucky.

BD: Are you guys about just...

Arielle Kebbel: Plus I just want to be Australian, so I try to be like her as much as I can.

BD: Yeah. Are you guys the same age?

Emily Browning: No. I mean, I...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: I mean yes. She's a year younger.

Arielle Kebbel: Yes. No. No. I'm 22.

Emily Browning: I'm 18, so. Yeah, but I'm more mature and, you know, that sucks.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah. She is. She is.

BD: To create a sort of believable level of suspense, do you guys have to sort of have a degree of self-awareness of like what you're playing in the scene or do you just kind of bring yourselves over to the...

Arielle Kebbel: Well, most of the time we're telling jokes before a take.

Emily Browning: I know. We're actually, she was the same… She's watching the dailies from a few days ago, and we just pretty, we're… much, 'cause I'm bit, no, I think, I mean...

Arielle Kebbel: It depends on the scene again.

Emily Browning: Well, like with the suspense thing, a lot of the time we don't know what we're filming the next day because...

Arielle Kebbel: Oh, yeah.

Emily Browning: … as the schedule changes so much.

Arielle Kebbel: What's cool, I think both of us is like, that we're both able to have a lot of fun on set, which I think is important because again, it makes us relatable, and it makes us more like sisters. But I feel like we're both pretty similar in the way that we handle sort of the more intense scenes, which is we work off of each other. I mean, work off each other in the happy scenes and we work off each other in the more difficult scenes. And, you know, we're filming some pretty intense stuff last week. And...

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel:...we pretty much had the attitude that was like it didn't matter who was on camera, we are there for each other.

Emily Browning: Yeah, but, like so many actors if you're doing your close up, they wouldn't be giving a full performance, but we'd, I mean we both...

Arielle Kebbel: We both just...

Emily Browning: When, I mean, my close up was first and so Arielle was like really, like, I mean it's an intense scene, and she was really, really performing. And so then I had to do that to her.

Arielle Kebbel: It was only the way. See, it was really for selfish reasons, but, no...

Emily Browning: No, it's exhausting. It's kind of, but, I mean, by suspense, I do feel like sometimes we're getting into the character. Sometimes you don't know what's gonna happen. You're not always totally self aware of what's going on. Like these characters are so intense, at sometimes things will happen that you don't really expect, which I think is kind of cool.

BD: Emily, can you take about how the breakaway from the business helped you?

Emily Browning: I pretty much finished Lemony, and it was nine months of shooting. I didn't want ask for it again. Like, it's not that it wasn't enjoyable, it's that I was like I've been doing this film for so long. I just want to go to school. I just don't act. I just want to be normal. I was dreading the publicity because I'm actually quite terrified in doing interviews.

Emily Browning: But I don't know it's this weird thing of, it's actually, it's probably not very good but when I'm doing one thing, I just want to be doing the other. So then I went back to school for two years, which I think was the best thing to do otherwise I would just have been a bit...

Arielle Kebbel: Dumb.

Emily Browning: Yeah. I mean, stupid kind of, but then, after a year of school, I was like, I'm maybe going acting. I'm like, I've hated it for so long because I've been doing it and as soon as I wasn't doing it anyway, I just wanted to come back. But I think it was important because Lemony was like a kids' film, and it was important having that period to kind of grow, that sounds like the wankiest thing to say, I know.

But it seems, it was sort of important to learn and kind of become an adult and then be able to come back to this, because after Lemony, the offers that were coming up were, you know, kids' films and things like that. And, I think people realized that I didn't want to do that and that's why I ran away. And so now, I'm able to do something that's a bit more mature like, with the characters. So...

Arielle Kebbel: She's pretty bad ass.

Emily Browning: She's very wanky at, yeah, I am probably.

Arielle Kebbel: But I mean, let's, really, yeah.

Emily Browning: I'm pretty grown up, you know?

BD: So, given what you just said, it sounds like, it's challenging being a young female performer looking for the right kind of roles. So it's, is it getting better? Is it getting worse, do you think?

Arielle Kebbel: They know 'cause I knew you talk to.

Emily Browning: Yeah. I don't know.

Arielle Kebbel: Is it?

Emily Browning: Getting better, do you mean by like what's being offered? I guess...

BD: Depending on however you look at what's better or not, what's good and bad?

Emily Browning: I think, it's better for me now because I know what I want to do, well, no, I shouldn't say that because I think you're gonna say what do you want to do [for life]. But, I kind of, I've just, having that time to sort of learn and everything I've been, I would have figured out a really good team of people to be around me, so now people don't, you know, my manager doesn't give me scripts that he knows I'm gonna hate. I think being better or worse it just depends on how picky you are. I just think you have to, I've learnt know to be really, really picky.

Arielle Kebbel: And I also think it's a confidence thing, because I think….

Emily Browning: Yeah, definitely.

Arielle Kebbel:...the more you work, the more you realize that, you know, you truly have power to embrace a character. And I think once you have that confidence that gives you the power to say no because you know so dearly what you want and what you're capable of that you can, you sort of have the hindsight to hold out and wait for those things. And sometimes, you're not always in the position where you can, you know, wait for those opportunities. Sometimes you do need that middle project to get you to where you want to be.

Emily Browning: Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: So, and that's where, I think, having the right people around you really helps make the difference.

Emily Browning: It's really important. Yeah. I mean, it was really, people, you know, people who were working with me were kind of pissed off that I wanted to take two years off. They're like, you're never gonna work again, no one's gonna want to cast you, you have to do things now, now, now. So, when I came over to L.A., this is pretty much one of the first things [that I was offered] then when I got the part, my agents were sort of like, wow, it was very lucky. It's never gonna happen again, like, seriously.

Arielle Kebbel: It's never going to happen again.

Emily Browning: I think, 'cause, you know, over those two years, I was still reading scripts and I think you just have to stand your ground and be really picky. And if it, I don't know, I'm still not sure if I want to do this forever. Like, I still don't even know what I want to do. I want to go to university. And I just, people think it's sort of a threat saying, oh, if you don't do this film, you won't get to another film. But that doesn't bother me. I'm like, well, if people don’t want to cast me again...

Arielle Kebbel: You could always travel with a circus.

Emily Browning: ...I'd go do something else. I'll go join the circus.

BD: So, when you say you're really picky, like what sort of things have you decided, you know, that's just not something I want to do?

Emily Browning: What have I turned down? No. It's pretty much for this first period of, I guess, establishing myself. I don't want to do the same thing twice in a row, you know? After Lemony, there were other kids' films, I didn’t want to do that because that's, well, I guess that was...

Arielle Kebbel: You've already done it for nine months.

Emily Browning: Yeah, exactly. That was dangerous for two reasons, because I could do another kids' film and be a kids' film actor for the rest of the time or I could not do anything and be the girl from Lemony Snicket, which is...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah.

Emily Browning: ...still kind of what people consider me as. But I'm hoping this is totally different. And I don't know, I just, I'm not saying I'm picky, as in the script has to be absolutely perfect. The director has to, you know, like, it's not that. It's just that I don’t want to do the same thing twice. 'Cause not only is it pigeonholes you, it's boring. It's like...

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah. For both people, for the audience and for you...

BD: Mm hmm.

Arielle Kebbel:...to perform.

Emily Browning: Exactly. Yeah.

Arielle Kebbel: That's why I'm always changing my hair.

BD: We do we need another Asian remake?

Arielle Kebbel: To be...

Emily Browning: But that's what we were saying. That's so different.

Arielle Kebbel: To be determine. They are very different. They're very different.

Emily Browning: This and The Grudge are extremely really different.

Arielle Kebbel: For example, that was a whole Japanese crew, this is Canadian. No, I'm just kidding.

BD: Did you notice similar elements in the Asian, you know, themes and stuff and not too Asian maybe?

Arielle Kebbel: I did notice in both the original, the Korean and the Japanese, they really, really go to dark places in telling a family story, you know? And they're not afraid of human violence. And I think that's why, that's where the terror comes through, which then creates sort of the need for us to remake the story because it's like, the words, no matter how confusing the story is in the Korean Tales Of Two Sisters or in The Grudge 2, it, the, it is such an intense story to watch that, you know, that's why we want to retell it.

So, there's similarities in that respect, but as far as anything else, not really at all because, you know, this is much more, like we keep saying, it's really like a psychological thriller. I mean, we don't spell it out for you, you have to figure out what's going on. And there's a big sense of mystery, and ultimately, it's about a family that is hurting and has some dark secrets and you don't really know where the truth lies.

Emily Browning: New characters are so different in The Grudge and from this. Like I think that's also what I mean. It's not even always necessarily the films having similarities. It’s the character you play.

Arielle Kebbel: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean in Grudge 2, uh, I like to call her Ugly Allison. But poor little Allison, I mean, I was, it was, you know, I was supposed to be sort of the vulnerable girl that gets picked on in school. And Alex would have nothing to do with that. I mean Alex is athletic. She's, you know, she's fun. She’s in your face. She likes to push the boundaries. I mean, she's pretty much...

Emily Browning: Don't smoke.

Arielle Kebbel: She doesn't smoke. She, we learned that you can't have that in a PG-13 film. In the original scripts, Alex smoked and curse and drink a lot more, but that scene's got deleted. So, yeah, I mean, they actually couldn't be more opposite, which is... I think the first thing that people see, you know, they say in real life, it takes, you know, 10 seconds to make a first impression. When you're on the screen, it's exactly the same thing, so it's really important to me to constantly being changing my character's, physically, emotionally and vocally, anything. And that's what's so fun about Alex, 'cause I really haven't had the opportunity to do a part like it. I mean, I wish I could, I just never had the opportunity to put it on film, so that's good. Yay.

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Directors Thomas and Charles Guard
Producer Walter F. Parkes
Star Elizabeth Banks
Star David Strathairn
Stars Arielle Kebbel and Emily Browning