The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition
Published: July 1, 2014
Q: What attracted you to The Giver?
A: I read scripts all the time, and I have been in very tiny parts in one or two movies because I was always waiting for the right thing to come along to fully commit. When I read The Giver – first of all, I remembered reading the book, and I remember it deeply affecting me in school. But picturing the characters played by Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep, and these incredible actors who had already signed on to the project, it was absolutely an honor to be approached to play Rosemary.
Q: Well, describe Rosemary for us. It’s interesting because Rosemary in the book doesn’t play piano. When you were given the script, was she already a piano player, or did you put that in there? How did that work?
A: Rosemary is such an interesting character to me because she reminds me of an analogy for the modern-day artist: a lot of the time, you’ll have someone who is so fragile and so vunerable and so open, and that’s the reason why they are successfull at making art. But that can also be their downfall. Rosemary felt too much. She cared too much. She was exposed to too much, and she couldn’t handle it, and I think that we see that play out in modern-day society all the time.
When I read the script, Rosemary was playing piano. It’s so interesting that she gets to be a musician, because in my mind, that is exactly the kind of vunerable, sensitive human being who would be chosen to remember memories, and who might be so sensitive and vunerable that they end up getting completely pulled into it, and go into a downward spiral because of it.
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