Danielle Panabaker:<\/strong> Absolutely — [just] that\u00a0I think was my initial reaction. It’s a film — even from the first read-through of the script — that left me asking questions, and I wanted to know more. For me, I think that’s always a sign of something intriguing. So that’s where it started. The script was sent to me and I was out of town shooting something else\u00a0so I hopped on Skype to chat with Austin and really get his perspective, and see where as a writer-director he was coming from —\u00a0how he saw these characters and their relationship and journey.<\/p>\n ShockYa: In that conversation with him, since it sounds like the script really embodied that ambiguity quite well, did he pull back the curtain a little bit or did he, as some artists do, say, “Hey those are both valid interpretations” (of the story)?<\/strong><\/p>\n DP:<\/strong> That’s exactly what he said, and I ultimately had to come to a conclusion myself, for my own work on the character, as to just how I perceived everything. So we had a lot of conversations. I think I was definitely the chatty actor —\u00a0talking about my process and what I was working on, my thoughts —\u00a0and getting some guidance from him as to what he was looking for, just in terms of Shae’s experience as she starts to cope with this really traumatic event.<\/p>\n ShockYa: Had you met Nicole (LaLiberte) previously, and what sort of discussions did you have with her, if any, because it’s one thing to have those interior process discussions with the filmmaker, but when you’re working with an actor so intimately you have to be if not on the same page then at least in the same chapter, I guess.<\/strong><\/p>\n DP:<\/strong> I don’t know, because I made the decision that I wanted to give Nicole her own space and also have my own space. We did get to meet each other and definitely spoke about the options (of how to read the story), because these girls do have such an intimate relationship — that’s a great way to describe it — and there are scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut that help define their rerlationship a little bit more. But speaking to the existential question of these girls and their relationship, I wanted to do my own thing and I wanted to give her the option to do the same, and I think it worked out fine, it worked out really well. My guess would be that we had different perspectives on it, but I think that just adds to the chemistry between the two of us.<\/p>\n ShockYa: Did Austin mention any other films of inspiration upon which he drew for “Girls Against Boys,” or some of the other works that helped spawn his idea for it?<\/strong><\/p>\n DP:<\/strong> I think he’d actually written the screenplay about 10 years ago.\u00a0I think he’d had it for a while before he took it out to get made, but he did give me several films to take a look at before heading to New York to shoot.\u00a0“Lilya\u00a04-Ever” (directed by Lucas Moodysson)\u00a0is one that I remember off the top of my head. He has a more European sensibility and what I really took away from “Lilya 4-Ever” was that sort of fantasy world that in that movie those two young kids are in, and that in “Girls Against Boys” two women participate in.<\/p>\n
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