Teresa Palmer on Romance, Blockbusters and Playing a Female Bad Ass
Posted on February 25th, 2011
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In your next movie, ‘Take Me Home Tonight,’ you play this guy’s dream girl, maybe not unlike what you did in ‘December Boys.’ Is that a comfortable challenge? Certainly it’s not unflattering, but you’re playing someone who almost seems to represent something more than simply being a character.
I think in ‘December Boys,’ Lucy was very manipulative and she knew how to use her body to win this guy over, and she just came into his life like a tour de force – this strong presence – and all of a sudden this young guy was like enamored by this girl who’s very sexually precocious. But in ‘Take Me Home Tonight,’ Topher [Grace]‘s character has had a thing for my character for years; it’s that typical story of the guy who always was infatuated with a girl who he will probably never get.
And in this film, he gets the opportunity to be with her and it’s what that feeling is, and so it is a very different character from the one in ‘December Boys.’ But she’s not a typical popular girl; she has vulnerabilities, and there’s a real quality about her that she’s very endearing and their relationship is so interesting. She finds him so refreshing, and I loved that, but you can get typecast out here in Hollywood, and that’s why a film like ‘I Am Number Four’ was very attractive to me – because I knew this was something I’d never done before, and which possibly could be a franchise, which I would love to be a part of.
‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ was a fun movie, but it seem to didn’t be as successful as I’m sure you guys were hoping. What sort of barometer do you set for yourself in terms of a film’s success? Because even if a film doesn’t make a lot of money, I’d think you need to feel some kind of satisfaction from the experience of making it.
It’s funny because a lot of people look at ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and think, wow, it didn’t perform very well at the domestic box office, but it actually performed very well internationally, and for me, I just want to make sure that I’m not doing a disservice to the character. I want to be 100 percent into this character, put as much of myself into her as I can, and if I have done that and I’m happy with that, then I feel like I have done my job and that it was successful for me.
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