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far the cutest interview table for miles around (were it not for
them it would have been a bonafide sausage fest), Jessica Lucas and
Laura Ramsey weren’t shooting any scenes that day, but squeezed in
an appearance to make the boys in the room smile. Awwwwwww. These
lovely girls play the romantic interests to two of the main
characters in the film. Details are sketchy but Laura divulged that
her character’s livelihood will be determined by the outcome of
the climatic barn battle. Laura was last seen in LORDS OF DOGTOWN
and VENOM, and she can next be seen along Jessica in the upcoming
film SHE’S THE MAN, a modern day remake of Shakespeare’s TWELFTH
NIGHT. Take it away ladies…
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| Laura Ramsey |
Tell
us about your characters?
Jessica:
I play Kate and she’s Pogue’s girlfriend in the movie and
she’s the wealthiest girl at Spencer and she’s really popular
and knows everybody and everything about everybody at school. Sarah
comes in and is her new roommate and she sort of takes her under her
wing and shows her the ropes. She’s also really intrigued by
Chase, the other new kid, which gets her into a bit of trouble with
her boyfriend.
Laura:
Ok, hi, I’m Laura Ramsey. I play Sarah and my character is the new
girl at school from the
Boston
public school. She comes to this school because she thinks she can
get into Harvard. It’s a private school, so she’s new to
everyone with money and she doesn’t come from a money family. And
she’s roommates with Kate and they… And then I like Steven, I
mean Caleb, his character Caleb, and Sebastian, the new guy at
school, is the bad guy and they get in fights and I get a spell put
on me. He tries to take Caleb’s powers away and uses me against
Steven’s character Caleb…I don’t know, tries to kill me to get
his power but, there we go… (giggling)
Tell
us about these sets?
Laura:
This set? Well, today they’re doing a lot of the flying rig stuff.
I don’t get to do a lot of the flying in the movie, which, I’m
like, jealous, because everyone else gets to do it. But yeah, I
don’t know. You tell them, you do rig stuff, right?
Jessica:
Yeah, I did some of the rig stuff for… When I get a spell put on
me, I levitate, where I go like this and then they want me doing
like circles in the air. So we’re actually going to shoot that
under water. The night after this, I’m training to be under water
where you can’t come up for breath. You have to have a respirator
come and, you know, you breath under water.
Are
you the girl that floats in the barn in the finale?
Jessica:
Yeah. So they’re going to shoot that so I had to go get a body
cast so that when I levitate, I’ll be on a harness, but my back
will be straight. Otherwise you go like this. So, I levitate, and
then there’s another scene where I’m floating in air with my
clothes on. So they’re going to shoot it under water where my
clothes look like, and my hair is floating. So I’m training to do
that right now.
Did
your background have anything to do with aerobics and flying through
the air that helped to get you the part?
Jessica:
Not really, no, but I was involved with dancing and it’s not super
hard. I don’t know, if you’re not scared of heights, once you
get used to being up in the air, I’ve done it a couple of times.
And I like to takes risks. I don’t know about other people, you
might be kind of scared…
Laura:
No, no. I wish I was doing it. I totally wish I was doing it. I
think it looks like fun.
How
do you like shooting in
Montreal?
Laura:
I love shooting in Montreal. It’s snowing for the first time today, so it’s very exciting.
Jessica:
We’ve been exploring the city at night and going out a lot.
It’s, I grew up in Vancouver, so I’m Canadian, but I’d never been to
Montreal
so I’d always wanted to come here.
Hard
getting used to cold weather?
Laura:
No, because I’m fromWisconsin, so it kind of reminds me from home. I really like it, a lot.
Jessica:
Today’s the first day of snow too, so it hasn’t been that bad. I
was expecting it to be a lot colder and snow a lot sooner, so it
hasn’t been too bad. When we first got here, it was really warm,
it was like summer…
Laura:
It was nice, and then we were supposed to shoot, there’s a rave
scene that’s all shot outside and it was supposed to be the end of
the summer, going back to school, and we ended up shooting it in
like 20 degree weather. It was freezing cold and everyone’s
breathe was showing. We had to be out dancing, having a good time,
and everyone’s breath was showing. It was soooo cold. But, other
than that…
How
have you both enjoyed working with Renny?
Laura:
Renny’s great. He’s awesome. He just likes to have fun and he
keeps everyone ambitious.
Jessica:
Yeah, he’s really laid back and his shots are really, he’s very
visual. Having that experience on this kind of movie, he’s
bringing so much to it that I think that maybe a new director might
not be able to…
He
seems to introduce his own vernacular, terms such as super cool and
more super sexy…
Laura:
Super-duper! (Laughs)
We
were wondering if there was a difference between super cool and
super extra cool?
Laura:
Probably not.
Jessica:
He’s good at giving us the praise.
Fan
of any of Renny’s movies?
Laura:
Die Hard 2 was good. I remember watching like Cliffhanger when I was
younger.
Jessica:
Yeah, Cliffhanger was good.
Laura:
Yeah, we’re fans.
Picking
up any French?
Jessica:
Yeah, I have, a little bit. I know, like, not very much, but I’m
getting better at it. I’m more comfortable saying “merci” and
“bonjour” and “merci beaucoup” and, yeah, I grew up in
Canada so I had to take French in high school so I know a little bit but I
can’t speak it. It’s been interesting trying to keep up with the
French language.
Does
Renny ever lapse into French when he’s directing or anything?
Jessica:
Well, everybody in the crew speaks French, so it’s a little hard
to understand. They’ll always speak French and then I’m like,
‘What,’ and then they’ll repeat it in English for us. But, we
can kind of understand a little bit what they’re saying, but not
really.
Most
difficult sequence so far?
Jessica:
For me, the shower scene. Not that it was difficult to act, but it
was my first time being, you know, they closed the set and to be
partially naked. No one saw, but it’s just, like, uncomfortable.
So, that was it for me. And the rave scene because it was so cold
and I was wearing a belly shirt and a jean skirt and converse. I was
super cold, but I made it through, survived.
Laura:
The rave scene for me, just because it was the most uncomfortable as
far as weather and stuff. But I haven’t, most of my difficult
scenes are coming up next week, so I haven’t shot them yet.
What
scenes are coming up?
Laura:
I just have, like my big scenes with her in the dorm room. I have a
lot of dialogue where I have a big fight coming up with my
boyfriend, stuff like that. For some reason, all my scenes ended up
coming up at the end.
Do
you all hang out with the guys?
Laura:
Yeah.
Jessica:
We all hang out.
Any
good anecdotes?
Jessica:
We just go out all together and have a good time.
Laura:
Yeah, and Renny will come out and the wardrobe people. We all go out
and…
Other
projects lined up?
Laura:
We just did a movie together in the summer called She’s the
Man.
It’s based on the 12th Night by Shakespeare, but
nowadays in high school. It’s like the love triangle between, I
don’t know if you’re familiar with the 12th Night at
all. Olivia, and Amanda Bynes is the lead, so she dresses as Viola
and then switches with her twin brother, Sebastian. And she plays
Amanda’s best friend and I played Olivia.
Jessica:
It’s coming out in March, so…
Laura:
Yeah, it’s Dreamworks.
Jessica:
It’s a soccer movie too. It’s got a lot of soccer.
Laura:
I’ve been going back and forth a lot too to LA for auditions and
test for things, so fingers crossed for the next thing coming along.
I don’t have anything for sure.
Auditioned
for anything big?
Laura:
Exorcism of Emily’s Rose, is that’s what it’s called?
To
be Emily Rose?
Laura:
Yeah. It would be cool to play that part.
Dream
role?
Laura:
My dream role would be to do something like what Charlize Theron did
in Monster, like totally transform yourself, looking like somebody
completely different, being totally different… It means something
a lot, that you feel challenged, that would be my dream role.
Jessica:
Something really dramatic and intense.
Laura:
This stuff is dramatic, but you try to dig and you get it out and
you’re talking about spells and, you know, everything. Never mind.
(giggles)
Favorite
movies and favorite horror movies?
Laura:
Mine would be… Mothman Prophecies. It’s scary and it scared the
shit out of me.
Jessica:
You know what movie scared me, The People Under the Stairs.
Laura:
I did a horror movie called Venom that was in theaters.
It
came and went real quick.
Laura:
Real quick.
Jessica:
It’s too bad, I wanted to see it.
Laura:
Yeah right.
Jessica:
(Laughs) Well, I knew you were in it…
Is
this gonna be scary?
Laura:
I think so, yeah.
Jessica:
It’s really dark. There’s hardly any light.
Laura:
It’s like a thriller, it’s like in the shower scene you’re
like [gasp!] and then all of the sudden I’ll be on camera, the
camera will be here and I’ll turn around and it will be nobody and
then I’ll turn around again and Reed is standing there! So, when
I’m in the shower and I’m bending down looking down at glass
behind me, there’s a floating black object above me. So the
audience will be like…
Jessica:
There’s a lot of scary, jumpy moments that will be like a thriller
I think.
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