![]() ![]() On Tuck I was able to see up close how much work it really is, and how it basically is a portion of your life that you basically devote to the project ¿ and it's sort of all-consuming and I didn't realize that ¿ there's no way you can really realize that, until you take a stab at it, you know? Q: What about the character Winnie? Do you think that young teenage girls today can relate to that character? I mean, that type of period, family movie is not really the typical choice for ¿ teenage audiences when they go watch movies on weekends with their friends. ![]() Q: Compared to going to NYU and making student films, what did you learn on Tuck Everlasting? BLEDEL: Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is. I think, I mean maybe not there, directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to. ![]() Q: Why is that, you're very shy ¿ ? BLEDEL: I'm not very shy ¿ it's just more comfortable, a more relaxed way to work. Q: So you had desires to go behind the camera? BLEDEL: Yeah, I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because ¿ it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really. Q: What were you studying? BLEDEL: I was a film major. Q: How did you get from Houston to showbiz, to Hollywood? BLEDEL: I went to college at NYU, and I was working there as a model, and I started auditioning for some pilots, around that time, and then I got the part on Gilmore Girls, and then to work on the show I had to move to L.A. Q: Does it come out when you go home? BLEDEL: Sometimes, yeah, when you're around a lot of people who have it, it can come out. It comes out when you get angry, or tired. BLEDEL: Are you? Go Texas! Q: What happened to your Texas accent? BLEDEL: I never had one, actually. Q: You're from Houston, I'm from Houston. So I don't know, that kind of – I don't think I would. And then you have Miles' character, who is just tortured by the fact that he's around forever because he's lost his whole family. Jesse's character finds so much joy in being able to experience things over and over again, and take trips and see the world, with all the time he has. The different characters react to it differently. The film kind of raises a lot of, you know, the darker side of being stuck in their situation. Q: If you had the chance to drink the water – in real life – if you had the chance to live forever, would you take that chance? Why? BLEDEL: No, I don't think so. ![]() Tuck Everlasting, which opens this Friday, marks her theatrical debut. As a freshman film student at New York University, she auditioned for and was cast in the WB TV series Gilmore Girls, which is currently in its third season. Having performed since the age of eight in community theater, Alexis turned to modeling while in high school. Her looks are, as the Russell says, "so classic," it's as if she stepped right out of 1914. And in the end, they confidently called on Ms. But, of course, in keeping with the process, Russell and his casting directors Mary Gail Artz and Barbara Coen auditioned hundreds of hopefuls for the part. In all sincerity, he wanted to cast her then and there. In an interview (which we will soon have for your perusal) Russell said Alexis was the first actress he saw for the part of Winnie, the young protagonist of Tuck Everlasting who meets a pleasant yet peculiar family living in the forest of her father's extensive property. As Alexis talks with me and four journalists from the international press, one can see what director Jay Russell saw the first time he met with her. ![]()
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