Eight-year-old acting phenomenon Quvenzhane Wallis posed adorably for Scene Magazine recently. The tiny star of the hit independent film, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, also took some time to chat about her new movie, acting, and more. Check out some of the interview highlights below:
On how she learned acting:
I would always play with my friends in the street. Just play school and stuff like that.
On what it was like working with director Benh Zeitlin:
It was fun because whenever I would get mad or sad, he would have to take off his hat and hit me with it to make me angry.
On her character Hushpuppy:
Hushpuppy, she’s wild, as you can see in the movie. She is wild, she’s always in the forest. She’s always doing something she’s not supposed to be doing.
On how she juggled school and being on set:
We had a tutor. Her name is Hannah. Please don’t say Hannah Montana! That’s what we called her Hannah Not-Montana, and we called her Hannah Banana. We had nicknames for her all the time. (Laughs) And she would be my tutor, we would bring some books. We would work on some math, reading, stuff like that. And the other little girls, Kaliana, Amber… they would come too, and they would bring some games. And she brought a game that nobody knew how to play. It’s called Slamwich.
On her favorite memories from filming Beasts of the Southern Wild:
Being able to see nature and what the world is like. And trying to help the world and be healthy, ‘cause I’m normally not healthy. And reading. I never liked reading. I would just always put the books to the side and just have fun. And then, soon as I went there, they started influencing me to start reading.
In the film, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane) lives with her father in a rural, remote part of Southern Louisiana that is surrounded by water. Hushpuppy is faced with prehistoric creatures and her father’s deteriorating health. She leaves home to seek out her mother.
“Beasts of the Southern Wild” will open in theaters in New Orleans on July 4 and will later be released in Los Angeles and New York.
For more with Quvenzhane, visit scenelouisiana.com.
Source: http://www.blackcelebkids.com/2012/06/quvenzhane-chats-about-beasts-of-the-southern-wild/
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