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I put the top down, I start to burn in about five minutes.
Threads
are more Goodwill the Gucci, something the actress, a vintage shop-aholic,
can appreciate.
I
didn't go to college. I did my first movie when I was 12. All through
high school I had a series of tutors; I had sort of an unconventional
upbringing because I was always working.
I
had a time in high school when I was working and I decided I didn't want
to act anymore and I dropped out. I just didn't really want to live by
the rules, so I had my little rebellion thing, but nothing as extreme as
Thea's. Robertson
has almost lost her voice, she explains, as the 12-hour shoot demanded
that she lose her cool on one very hot and humid Montreal day, in the
dramatized road-rage incident that lies at the centre of Last Exit . The
sequence, which director John Fawcett ( Ginger Snaps ) required be shot
from more than 20 angles, called for Robertson to smash a $50,000 Jeep
Cherokee with a telescope while in a blind rage.] It's the kind of thing
that's not too hard to do once or twice, ... But I had to do it about 20
times over. There were people standing all around the street where we
filmed it. When I finally finished off the car and they yelled 'cut' for
the final time, the crowd that had gathered began cheering and clapping. I've
been doing it for so long, so I look at it like, “Where was I then,
and where am I now?” Every movie you do, you learn so much and you
change so much. I've
always been lucky in that I've always known what I want to do and the
stuff that I like. I've tried to be true to that. I
don't know if she's the most moral, but I think she is the most honest.
I think she goes through the biggest transformation of all of them. She
ends up with the life that - removing myself from it and thinking of
myself as an audience member. I
think that her life is the only one of their lives that I'd want to
live. She's the only one that's really been through it and learned from
it, and now knows what she wants and what she needs, and what will make
her happy. She's now in a relationship that's really good, and I don't
think the others are. We
shot in New York, and I live in LA and in Toronto, so I was essentially
by myself in New York. I didn't see anybody during the shooting of the
movie, except for my parents who came to visit me one weekend. They were
a little grossed out by my looks. It's
the kind of thing that's not too hard to do once or twice. But I had to
do it about 20 times over. There were people standing all around the
street where we filmed it. When I finally finished off the car and they
yelled 'cut' for the final time, the crowd that had gathered began
cheering and clapping. When
you do something like this and it isn't on the page, you have to kind of
create what you think. You have to make your own choices. I had specific
ideas about what I thought should have happened with her. I think that,
after this situation happens with Sid - where she ends up sleeping with
him and then feels terrible about it - I think that is sort of a turning
point for her. I
think that she probably lived the same kind of life for a couple of
years. She didn't feel as good about it as she did in the past. Then I
think that she probably had a few other relationships and then met
Miles. I think him being a lot older than her, he sort of saw her for
who she was. She
kind of, in a way, purged everything - like she'd done everything, she'd
been with tons of people, and she'd done drugs. She's just done it all
so she was ready to be like, “Okay, this is who I am.” When you come
out the other end from an experience like that you are sort of very
solid in who you are.
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