(Hailee gasps)
- This is my first ever job!
Hey everyone, it's Hailee Steinfeld here
and I am doing Breakdown Breakdown with Cosmo.
I'm just gonna say it. I like you.
Mm.
I've liked you for months. Mhm.
I think about you every second,
I don't know, maybe I even love you.
Wow.
You're so complicated, but simple.
And I just feel this connection between us.
This isn't my current situation, by any means.
I wanna feel you inside me. Wow.
We can do it in the Petland stock room.
I forgot how forward this message was.
Nadine, girl.
This is by far one of my favorite.
Well, one of my favorite roles I've ever played,
but this scene particularly was very fun
because I think we've all been there.
Oh my God.
Accidentally sent.
In this case, a very raunchy and inappropriate
and forward text message to a person
that we ultimately want to see,
but I don't know.
Very confusing time,
but it's all, it's happened to us all, right?
We've sent an email to a person
that we were like, you know, complaining about
and it was supposed to go to somebody else
and it went to that person. I don't know, it's happened.
This was very fun to shoot though.
Right after that message is sent,
we did so many versions of the reaction
and of the freak out.
I felt like I was given so much freedom
to, kind of, do anything and everything.
And that resulted in just,
like, the most chaotic of responses.
So much fun, and so freeing to just,
like, let loose and freak out.
The world feels like it's literally coming to an end
and you have no idea how to recover from this.
And then suddenly everything
you've ever been upset about in your life
is, like, triggering you.
And it's just a full on nervous breakdown.
Edge of Seventeen for me was, like,
a moment to just, like, release any bit of teen angst
that had ever been inside of me.
Aww.
This is thy sheath.
Oh no. (Hailee laughs)
Let me die.
Aw.
I don't think I've seen this since I made this.
I believe I was 15 when I made this
and I would say, I mean,
this is an iconic scene in Romeo and Juliet.
And I feel like I had a big red circle
around this scene in the script
because it was, like, that hill to climb,
but we got there and we did it.
And I had an amazing scene partner in Douglas Booth.
It was very emotional.
I mean, we were in the most beautiful setting
and in the most gorgeous costumes
and we had an amazing Italian crew.
And everybody was just really wonderful
and supportive because it was one of those moments
that, like, called for as much support
and understanding and patience as you could possibly get.
(Hailee squeals)
- Your name is Mattie.
Well, you're little Mattie the bookkeeper.
- Yes. And I know you, Tom Chaney.
Oh my God. (Hailee chuckles)
I have come to take you back to Fort Smith.
Listen.
- Well, I will not go.
- Well, if you refuse to go, I will have to shoot you.
Oh my god.
- Oh.
- Okay, so, two things.
The water was freezing.
Second, the coat that I'm wearing,
I kid you not weighed, I believe,
from, like, 7 to 10 pounds.
This thing was so heavy.
You can see that I'm, like, swaying in the scene.
And I think, I remember...
I recall it being from, like, me being freezing
and trying to, like,
I don't know if it was like an unconscious thing
that I was doing to, like, stay warm.
But I remember, like, my arms being so tired
from holding the gun up and the coat being so heavy.
And I think it was just like, I don't know.
But I'm definitely swaying.
And I've done that in other scenes, (Hailee laughs)
which is so funny
because I made myself aware of it recently.
And here I am watching my 14 year old self do it then.
That film will always hold a very special place in my heart.
That was a wild one.
I was swimming in the water with horses.
I actually found out after
that there were water snakes in this particular lake.
I was told once I made it to the other side,
we only had to do one take,
which probably best that they did tell me after the fact,
because yeah, I don't think it would've,
I don't think it would've happened.
(Hailee Gasps)
- [Ayda Field] In front of a map of Pittsburgh.
- This is my first ever job.
Oh my God.
Looks easy.
- Well, thank you.
When you do it right, it does look easy.
- I bet I could do it.
Okay.
First of all, somebody needed to give this girl a haircut.
- Can we have today's weather cast
and the teleprompter up here?
- [Male Staff] Okay.
- Oh man, I worked so hard to remember these lines.
Well, the rain is continuing here
in most of Western Pennsylvania
with a stubborn low pressure system.
That means the low line regions
have an increased possibility of flooding,
particularly around the Monongahela River.
Now. (audience laughing)
Listen. (Hailee chuckles)
- Okay, that's enough, that's enough.
- But I didn't finish.
- Oh no, you're done, sweetie, you're done.
- Apart from a few student films
that I had done and a couple commercials,
this was like my first big role.
Oh, I remember it like it was yesterday.
I remember pulling up to the lot,
having my trailer and my name on the trailer.
And I definitely have that photo.
I mean, my mom has that photo somewhere of me,
just, like, here I am at my trailer
with my character's name on the door.
And it just was such a surreal moment.
And then we shot it in front of a live audience,
which I had never...
Obviously I had never experienced any of it before,
but that was, like, what an element.
That whole live element is just so...
It keeps you so alive and so on your toes.
And it's, like, freezing cold on the stage,
which I will never forget.
I was so cold.
I mean, this is like my first, my first gig.
So I was very excited and very, like, over eager
to just show up and be prepared.
But I had a great time.
It was really fun.
- I love you, and I felt you in the library
because you're always with me.
I can't escape from you
because the only true thing I will ever feel-
- My love for you. Oh!
(dramatic music)
Do it.
Yes.
My scenes as Emily Dickinson
with Sue Gilbert are some of my favorite
I've ever gotten to act in.
They have the most complicated, beautiful,
messy situation, relationship
that I have ever played through.
Probably one of the most beautiful
and tragic ones that I know.
What's so awesome about this relationship
between the two of them throughout our show.
These two characters grow so much together
and I watch this and I get so excited
about season three and what the fans are gonna get.
'Cause if they're at all a fan of this,
they're gonna love what's to come.
My process to prepare for a character.
It varies.
With someone like Emily Dickinson,
I was so lucky to have enough information about her
that is known to be true.
Her poetry, which is the reason we're all in love with her.
And the reason we have a show.
To have that and to have that as the driving force
and to have that as any point of reference at any given time
is just, like, a miracle.
So having that, knowing that,
studying her and taking all of that into the show
was a huge part of my process with this character.
But what was so fun is, you know, from the very beginning,
we set out to make a show.
Unlike any Dickinson related story
that you had ever seen before.
So I was also really excited to kinda step in
and make it my own in that sense
and take the unbelievable poetry that is hers
and run wild with it, really.
I don't normally love watching myself,
but I have to say, I feel like you guys went really deep
and pulled from a long time ago.
So I'm far enough removed from it
that I don't know that it bothered me so much,
but I probably won't watch these again until,
Cosmo, you make me do it again.
But I hope you guys enjoyed this
and I'm excited for you to see my cover.
(upbeat music)