A couple of new interviews with Mary have been released in the UK in anticipation for the Dec. 14 release of Smashed. The first interview comes from The Telegraph. Also, head to the gallery to see a new Mary shoot she did for the paper. On filming Smashed in 19 days:
The breakneck, 19-day shoot was, she tells me during a recent interview in London, “kind of eye-opening… it felt like acting boot camp.
Before this, any time that I auditioned to play somebody that had a dark past or any sort of troubled or tortured quality, people would always say, ‘You’re too sweet, you’re too nice, you’re too normal – you could never have problems’. And you can’t help but start believing that stuff.”
On how Smashed required her to be emotional:
“When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don’t bring your own issues into the equation, it’s not going to feel really personal to the people watching it,” she says.
“My issue that I uncovered in doing this film is that I have always been an extreme people-pleaser to the point where I have had people involved in my life because I want to make them happy, not because it does anything for me,” she says. “My whole life I’ve been like ‘oh I don’t have any problems, I am so boring’, but making this film I had to acknowledge that I do have problems and no matter how big or small they appear to other people, your own problems are big to you.”
Click on the link above to read that interview in full. The next interview comes from HuffPo UK where she says playing the role of Kate was scary and the advice she got from Bruce Willis on the A Good Day to Die Hard set:
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