gURL.com Interview with Nikki Reed
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Amanda31 in News
While promoting her upcoming film The Last Day of Summer, Nikki chatted with gURL (a leading online community for teen girls) about being cast in the film, going through a rough patch as a teen, and why the popular crowd is sometimes the wrong crowd.
So, we hear DJ Qualls (your co-star) hand-picked you to play Stefanie?
DJ and I have been best friends for I don’t even know how long now… since I was a kid! He was actually approached with the script before I was and they asked who he thought should play Stefanie and he said me.What a great friend! The movie is so intense. Did you sign onto it right away?
There was a bit of resistance at first because I sort of carry around this weird false image that I can only play the hot or intimidatingly beautiful girl, which is just really strange because I’m not intimidatingly beautiful. I think just when you play those characters, people start to see you as that. And so I went in and met with them and they were like, “Oh, she’s not that beautiful. We can give her this role.”Ok, Nikki. You’re just being humble.
(Laughs). I thought that it was just gonna be an easy breezy situation because DJ and I were so close, but it was really interesting to see how heavy it became just due to the nature of the project and how little time we had [to film it].
You can read the full interview here.
