you
oh and yet
Oh crying I rarely even remember like
how the auditions when I just went and
go ahead and try it because my mom
friend called and said that it was for
six to nine yards
and I was only five and my mom told her
that I couldn't go cuz I was only five
years old and my mom's friend said she
can handle it she she's able to say she
hung up the phone and she actually ever
I would like to go and I said sure why
not
the callback we went through some some
scenes in which I would sort of play the
the father in the movie and she was
supposed to throw a stuffed animal at me
and she wouldn't do it
um and then really like that she
wouldn't she refused to do what then
asked her to you would just be like why
are you not throwing it I'm like it's
not right I don't know but I had it now
oh you would throw it at me now yeah
one day the storms gonna go the grounds
gonna see and the waters gonna rise up
so high ain't gonna be no bathtub just a
whole bunch of water there were certain
kind of essences you know the this sort
of fearlessness and wisdom and sweetness
and defiance that were part of the
character and when we saw her you know
those things were so apparent so
sometimes you just have this amazing
experience where your character walks
into your life you think I can't see no
crime we always knew that hushpuppy had
to be very imaginative very strong kind
of fierce but also somebody that you
want to spend ninety minutes with you
know somebody who can be a hero really
that that will take the whole audience
on a journey
I heard you talking it's fair I'm not a
fan of mine I really don't like mud that
much so whenever I have to play with my
soon as it touches me I have to go like
rinse off or like wash my hands or get
that germs off of me
because sometimes mud can be dangerous
so you're not like hushpuppy like that
you know you think that with a kid that
young you're not gonna get them to be
able to pivot emotionally or understand
fully what their characters trying to do
but that wasn't the case with her at all
I would just talk to her very much like
an actor you know and she would I mean
and even look like she wasn't paying
attention sometimes you know a lot of
times when we were doing this she's like
throwing gummy bears at someone or just
running around in circles and then
you're sort of say you know did you
understand that and say yeah yeah I'm
supposed to follow my dad stop when he
does this and then he's gonna yell at me
I'm gonna run away and so she it's just
in her head you know almost I didn't
have to put him in the boat the indie
world already happened the look in her
eyes and the intensity and the amount of
feeling it could see was going through
her head behind her eyes was so powerful
sometimes you could read something so
bad daddy can't get put back together
what we were looking for was very rare
and we really really lucked out I mean
we could have let as bends as we could
have seen a million girls and we would
never have found anybody better than
avenging
we wanted to say for you always one I
love America nice
you