Where are you from? New York. We're in New York City, right here. Yeah. Oh well good for you.
How old, uh how old a uh uh girl? Woman? Girl are you? Girl. yeah 13. 13? So you're just a kid then
you're just really a kid. Sure, why not. Was it ,was this like your first big movie this Robert
Redford deal? Um this was the first, this was like the largest part that I've ever had, other than I
did an independent film called "Manny and Lo" and I played Manny, so. So you've been doing this a
while then. Yeah I guess, you know, in Scarlett years it's a while. In Scarlett years meaning,
sure it eats up a huge percentage of your life but you're only 13 so what are we talking about
really then? Mmm, I've been doing it for about five years. How did you get started? Did your
folks help you get started? Did you always want to be an actress? When did you know?
I've always wanted to be an actress I mean, ever since I could, ever since I can remember. I mean,
I remember when I was three telling my mom that I had a fire in my brain to act and, you know,
she must have thought I was crazy or something. But she said um, you know, wait until you get
older, and so. Yeah, I remember when I was three I told my mom there's something wrong in my diapers.
That's a whole different deal though.
Uh, do you have a big family? Um a pretty big family. I have three other siblings and my two
parents. Are they older, younger? Um, I have a twin brother. I have an older brother and older
sister. And are they also interested in acting? Um nobody in my family is actually, I was the
first one. Now when you're, when you're like this, when you're just still a kid and you're in school
and you have friends and you have family, how did they react to the fact that you're like a
big shot actor? How does that go? Does that, is that a problem for you or for them? Well I mean
my friends have been pretty good about it and they've always really encouraged me to to just go
for it. That's nice. So you find them to be very supporting and nurturing? Yeah. Well that's good,
good. Because a lot of times, you know, they can be, kids especially can be petty and you
don't want that. That's not fun for anybody. No, they've been uh, they've been pretty good
about it, I've been very lucky. That probably says something lovely about you. It's probably because
you're a nice decent person that they behave in kind. Well, that's debatable but you know.
Uh and so this this thing is like a you're out there in Montana. Had you ever been to
Montana before? No I'd never been that, I mean other than California, I've never been out that
far west. Right, what was it, how long were you actually in Montana? We were there for
about four months. Mm-hmm. So we were, the whole shoot took about six months altogether. What was
your impression of Montana? Um, very vast. Vast, yes. You know it's uh big sky country.
Yeah sure. Yeah. Yeah I noticed that, you know. Um, I don't, I didn't even know the sky was blue
before I went out there, and. It really, it really is a different kind of blue isn't it? Yeah it's
amazing. It's, it's like not even blue. It's like rainbow colored, you know, it's gorgeous. It's uh
it's it's a uh nearly as blue as Robert Redford's eyes. Oh God. Yeah, I know.
And did you ride horses and stuff? Um, I had never really ridden horses before. I mean I
actually told them, I kind of, I felt bad about it afterwards. You lied that you were an accomplished
equestrian. No, I didn't say, I didn't use those words exactly. But you know, Bob Redford said,
"Have you ever been on a horse before?" and I said, Yes, I've been on a horse before." They
may have been plastic, you know but I I didn't tell him that. I just said I'd been on a horse
before. I took him literally. Yeah. And so um and then when I got the part and we started filming,
um the wranglers called the casting director. My casting director called my agent and was
like screaming on the phone, "She doesn't know what she's doing! We thought she knew how to
ride!" She was like, "No, she told you she'd been on a horse before." Exactly. So, I had.
And did you, did you finally take to it all right? Is it, I mean what is the trick, you just have to
be comfortable on the animal? Yeah I mean I think after a few lessons I was more comfortable and
confident with what I was doing. You know, at first I was kind of like, fumbling around. And
what about, you called Robert Redford Bob. Now is that all right to be calling him Bob? Well, I
don't really call him Bob. What did you call him?I call him Booey. Called him Booey. Yeah, he he
didn't he didn't really like it at first but after a while he got used to it. You get used to being
called Booey. Yeah. And why exactly was Booey the name of choice? Well um, I think I I didn't like
to call him Bob. Yeah. You know it's not that I don't like the name Bob. All you Bob's out there,
you know, don't be offended. But um I think that I didn't, I I felt like if I, Bob sounded too formal
and too kind of. Like, the people that thought it was cool to know him would call him Bob, you know,
me and Bob. Well first of all he's too old to be called Bob. Well come on. You could call him
Robert. You could call him Robert, you could call him Mr. Redford. I don't know about this
Booey thing. That's between you you and Bob but the fact that the guy is in his late 70s means
you're not calling him Bob, you know what I'm saying?
Well, you know, I think, I think you've added a couple years on there. You know I'm getting ready
to go to uh. Take or give a few. I'm going to Montana on Friday. I'm going out there.
I've never been to Montana before. Why? I'm very excited. What's your reason? Because every, well,
it turns out I am an actual turns out, a couple of years ago I realized I'm a cowboy. Oh, ok.
And sooner or later every cowboy answers the call of the big sky. Yeah sure, sure. So I
gotta go. I just gotta go. I agree. I can't help myself. I agree. Now what do I have in store for
me? Will it be fun or will I get beat up? Well I, I'd say we kind of, I mean it was wonderful
out there and it was incredible. Would you go back?I yeah I'd go back.Definitely but I mean I,
we experienced things there that we, I mean coming from New York, never really
experienced before. Like what kind of stuff? Like this you know there's so many mountains and
just big open fields and um a lot of wildlife is out there. But I think one of the things
that we ran into that you might want to like steer clear of are the plagues. Plagues? Yeah.
What do you mean? We had, like we had mosquitos and locusts. Ah mosquitoes, that's nothing. That's
nothing I'm a cowboy. I can handle that crap. Hey how was Booey on a horse by the way?
He was, I was very impressed. Yeah, I heard that he broke his hip getting on. Ughhh.
Well you know three hours but does he whisper into
the horse's ear? Do you see a lot of that? Is there a lot of that?
Uh, whispering into the horse's ear not exactly. But he's the horse whisperer.
Well, it's uh, I haven't seen it because Booey wouldn't send me a copy of the film. But I saw
But I saw the uh, little you know clips of it, it looks beautiful. The film looks just
stunningly beautiful. Well our D.P. did like an incredible. It wasn't like it was so. I said D.P.
You know um director of photography. Yeah okay. That's the better name. Very good, very hip.
He was like, uh he, it wasn't, he did a wonderful job of capturing that but it wasn't so hard for
him because it's just incredible out there, you know. And um, to capture the beauty is really
what he did. And then when you're dealing with a guy like Booey, you got to, you know,
as the D.P. you want to shoot him through a lot of trees and a lot of leaves and stuff.
Listen, it was nice meeting you. Thank you. Congratulations on the lovely
film. Thank you. And have a great summer, all right. Thank you. Sure.