LAC: Yeah, some people thought we staged the whole thing. It was some nutso guy who stood up during the credits and said this film needs to be banned and burned, and the funniest thing to me about it was, why did he sit through the whole thing? I mean, I understand it, rape is always contraversial, it's very hard subject matter, I understand when people get upset, it is upsetting and should be upsetting, but as much as we had the boo-hooers, we had more people that really loved it. I get compliments about the film all the time. When people ask me what's my favorite, I say, I love them all but, The Woman is a special movie for me, because I learned so much doing it.
TA: I agree with you about the subject matter, but I take issue with these nay-sayers, because these are the same people who take children to see, Jaws or The Exorcist and then are shocked at what's on the screen. It's like, did you buy tickets for Benji and wander into Jaws accidently?
Lauren Ashley Carter as Peggy from Lucky McKee's "THE WOMAN"
TA: Loved Sean Bridgers in both films, The Woman and Jug Face, his performances between the two films are so vastly different.
LAC: Oh absolutley, they are incredible. I didn't get to work with him so much on The Woman, we had a few scenes together, in most of them my character is pretty scared of him, but in Jug Face, I really got to work with him and he helped me so much. Every night before we shot on Jug Face, he would sit with me and we'd go over the script and I would ask him, how do I do this, or convey that, he was wonderful. I think it was great for him to do those movies back to back.
TA: Had you known Chad Crawford Kinkle prior to being cast in Jug Face?
LAC: No, not at all. Andrew van den Houten, the producer, sent me a script that had won at Slamdance and said, "I've got to know what you think." So I read it over dinner, and I told him, this is great, it's awesome, are you going to make this movie? That's when he told me they were interested in me for the role of Ada. So, I was very excited.
TA: Ada is such a tragic character, I read, you stated, Ada made all deciscions based on fear.
LAC: It was fear, because she doesn't have any kind of logic to base her decisions on. She's had no examples and hasn't lived life at all. Which is the total opposite of me. I overthink things, I make lists and it takes me weeks to make a hardcore descision. I have to think things out way ahead of time, and for Ada, in a flinch, she'll do something. She has no one guiding her, she doesn't want to stay where she is, but she doesn't have anywhere else to go. So, she doesn't make the best descisions.