"More than anything, as a little girl, I always wanted to be in horror movies."
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LAC: My father wanted me to become a professional golfer, but I did everything from, gymnastics, soccer, to swimming, and I thought, what am I going to do? So I chose the arts and I guess I just didn't stop. I looked for every opportunity to act, to sing, and horror was always something that I loved from a very young age. So, when I had my first opportunity to be in a horror movie which was The Woman, directed by Lucky McKee, no less, it's like a great first horror movie! It was a dream come true, it really was. More than anything as a little girl I always wanted to be in horror movies. I'm very happy with the way things are turning out.
TA: Speaking of The Woman and Lucky McKee, were you nervous about working with him?
LAC: I had met him before. In fact, we had been meeting each other and talking for a long time, and because there's not a lot of opportunity to do rehearsals with these type of films in general, we had a lot of conversations. On set he made everyone feel comfortable. I was more nervous to be around Angela Bettis, because I really looked up to her.
TA: You began your acting journey in the theatre?
LAC: Yes, it's kinda of what you had to do unless you grew up in Los Angeles or New York. So, yeah, I started in theatre but film was always so fascinating to me but I never even thought it was a possibility, and on film you never know how you're going to look like. That's another thing too. You can see beautiful people in person but they don't photograph as well, or you're not interesting looking, or whatever it is. But I did theatre, inspite of having a really horrible case of stage fright and even though I love that immeditate gratification you get from a live audience, I found I love film more, because, you do all that hard work and you get to keep something at the end of the day. And you have the chance to get the best performance out of yourself, or you can at least get close. On The Woman, we shot all over the place, even though the director tried to keep the shooting as linear to the story as possible. When you're doing the gore scenes, you think, how is this going to look real? And I never saw any of the dailies, in fact when I first saw the film, it was at Sundance.
TA: I enjoyed The Woman, in the same way you're mesmerized by a David Lynch film, but I understand you got some backlash at Sundance.