Twitter: @alexisbledelfan
Days left until “Post Grad”: six days!
I found a bunch of interviews, the first three being from the “Post Grad” Press Day on July 20th. The bottom two were only just uploaded a couple of days ago, and the first was uploaded today!
Alexis also did a Q&A with the San Fancisco Chronicle. Read the rest after the jump.
Q: Are you getting sent Rory roles over and over?
A: I do get scripts for sort of sweet characters for family films. I think it just takes time. I have to grow out of my image, and it has to do with the way I look, too, which I can’t do anything about (laughs).
Q: Why did you choose “Post Grad”?
A: I knew the writer through a friend for a few years. I thought it was a really relatable story; she’s my age. It’s her experience of graduating from college and not being able to get the job she wanted. This was years ago, before everything that’s going on now. I’d heard similar stories from friends and people from my class who’d graduated. I found it to be really true to people my age.
Q: Your mother, father and grandmother are played by comic veterans Jane Lynch, Michael Keaton and Carol Burnett. How was that?
A: It was really cool. It was a privilege, and so much fun. They’re all so good at comedy, in their own different ways. You get a completely eccentric bunch of great characters. I thought Ryden had a really nice relationship with Michael’s character, the dad. I watched a lot of his movies. I tried to pick up some of his habits because I wanted her to take after him. We had some fun scenes in the movie where it was really hard to keep it together – where he walks in on me with the neighbor and tries to be the stern dad, but he’s too sweet and too lovable to really lay down the law. He ad-libbed some great lines.
Q: Ryden makes an important decision that seems sure to provoke some extreme reactions, especially among those debating what feminism means today. Without giving anything away, did you wrestle with that?
A: I really did. I didn’t have a lot of input, obviously, I’m not the writer. But I wanted to make sure it made sense, what she chose. I think the whole point is when she starts out she’s very regimented, she has these plans and she doesn’t really budge from them. That’s why she has all these frustrations. The way I explained it to myself was sort of post-feminist (laughs). For so long, (the struggle was about) women being able to choose whether to work or have a family, or do both. … I think it’s past that point, and now it’s about doing whatever you want to do (laughs).
