are you too young to drink it no oh no
no you can definitely drink here and I
can drink in America now too
so that's nice oh yeah wasn't it your
birthday the other day yeah just turned
21 so you're a Libra yeah I'm also Libra
all right we're just all balanced out
American honey is the new film by
British born director Andrew Arnold he's
best known for fishtank
co-produced by vice company post films
it's shot in a documentary style and
follows a group of runaway teens across
the Midwest it's a business opportunity
we go door-to-door we sell magazines we
store like America we party come with us
a lot of the characters were cast on the
street and the star of the film
Sasha Lane was found on a beach in
Florida during spring break okay good
you're hired we're meeting her in Camden
to talk about her first time acting
opposite Shia LaBeouf and her experience
on this two-month road trip I've
obviously heard the story of how you got
picked up was that just like as
fairytale as it sounds yeah it was I
mean probably less fairytale because it
was like a mix of like I was I got
kicked out of my hotel and that's how I
end up on that beach and then like some
strangers were at my place and then I
move suitcases into her car and luckily
she didn't kill me so like the less
prettier version but still very much
like this doesn't happen yeah so what
she happened did she just come up to you
and Ray Arnold and say like you look
perfect cause she didn't just walk up
she ran up to me that kind of thing
happens in England like there'll be a
model scout or something but it would be
really sketchy yeah was it like were you
worried that it would be like a scam or
something like that yeah but also I mean
if you just have like a British woman
who has a cowboy hat and overalls on at
least you don't get the danger feel but
of course I was still really like
skeptical is this
real like winning and so she came to my
hotel that night I was just like oh
you're here okay how about like your
family if you out on spring break did
you have to like cool them up and yeah
them um they were freaking out my mom
was actually more chill about it but I
mean we're having converses my dad he
was just like you know I feel like
you're not asking me you're just telling
me and I was like yeah pretty much
so regardless of what they said I was
like well I'm doing it you know when
you're younger did you ever think that
you would be an actor no no way -
offered and uncomfortable and also just
wasn't one of those things that you felt
like you could do and I wasn't really
interested in like the whole industry
part of it and everything so
Spring Break just got me the film like
really captures this kind of raw
American new culture and so then you had
Andrew Arnold who's a British director
and coming and exploring that world yeah
how did she gain your trust um cuz she's
really really embedded she's
understanding that she's taking his kids
from the street and like people who know
this life and that she isn't from there
so she gives us like freedom to like go
about as we do and she did the whole
road trip and everything before we
started filming she looks deeper you
know and she sees you for who you are
and that's really special it's a good
connection make with the director was
she quite maternal cuz all of you
younger yeah also she was like fun you
know she was down to hang out with us
and stuff just she was like fun mom is
she okay oh yeah you gotta keep bringing
prayers on I've been trying to be
Christian but I can see the devil has a
hold of the two of you the devil has a
hold of your daughter
I love the soundtrack so much is
literally like trap country job is
everything in her where did that music
come from was that all of you guys
putting in your input or was that her
finding the music um a little bit of
both you know like when she did that
road trip she would hear what everyone
was listening to and so she would you
know fall in love with it and pick it up
there's like a group things cool where
are you going make money hop in
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I like a girl with spot on a really like
crude level star just had nothing and
she kind of really jumped into this
adventure and she didn't know what she's
going into and you also just jumped into
this adventure two completely different
from anything that you knew yeah did you
kind of relate to your character in that
way yeah definitely it was kind of this
whole like what do you have left to lose
and also I feel like she's really free
to and just yeah it was just like well
might as well hop on that car yeah look
at Keith's bling or jumping Clarke
do you have any dreams
it's like future proves it was
irrational you didn't have as much of a
script yeah you shot chronologically and
loads of you didn't have much acting
experience at all did it kind of feel
like she was making a documentary of you
or did you get the sense of it being her
vision like there was a script I just
didn't have it so I would get like the
side the day before the day of but like
a lot of the van's seems felt very
documented very it was very much just
kind of us hanging out and the camera
all of a sudden be rolling or not
rolling but the rest of it was scripted
and so you could see her vision as you
would wake up each day and be like this
is what we're doing today you start to
uncover more just like anyone else
watching the film and I was the same
surprise experience one of my favorite
things in the film was the power play
between your character and shires
character Jay and I just kept thinking
like one day you hate each other the
next day you love each other and was
that hard to draw the line in terms of
like your friendship sometimes yeah
you'd be in it and you just I'd have to
be angry and upset the whole day so then
we'd get back and I just be like and
then have to remember like wait now you
didn't actually do anything to me you
think you're special ah you've got feel
you don't mean it any husband
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poverty that's shown in the film and so
it's really upsetting is that something
that you recognize from like communities
in Texas yeah definitely I mean um it it
can be really really really depressing I
think the beauty of it is like when you
grow up in something like that and you
don't have a lot of opportunities and
that's all you really know it can be
really sad but also there could be a lot
of beauty a lot of light there
you just got to dig a little deeper and
with people to you know like a lot of
those people you'd think may be scary to
look a little rugged because they're not
in high fashion clothes but they can be
seen the sweetest most genuine people
ever so yeah it's kind of like the point
I think it's yeah you see like the bad
parts or whatever but also there is life
because you got to look for it yourself
your whole tribe that you had that
you're going around the country with
with those guys they all picked up from
just off the street found everywhere
yeah pretty much everyone kind of picked
up like in their hometown that's how
like real and authentic it was you know
it's just that kids from Missouri and
Virginia my brother and sister they're
from Oklahoma we met them as we went
along have you kept in touch with them
whole yeah like pretty much most of them
I just have like I said I mean you built
this family and this bond and so I can't
look like oh my mind don't want to you
know yeah so I'm hungry
I didn't know what the ER l - you're
thinking between a breakfast or tie type
thing
maybe Indian I don't really know okay
then I know where you should go you
should just go up to come to market
Canton like there's like a big in
burrito place actually which looks
pretty good sounds actually I'm taking
very nice nice hmm
thank you