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I originally got into acting when I was about 13.

I never really had interest in it. I really wanted to be a paramedic. But

randomly I was hired to be an extra on this really terrible horror movie.

And I was on set and I just fell in love with the process of making movies.

And so I slowly, you know, I got agent, manager, and slowly started auditioning,

and that's kind of how I fell into it. In middle school, you could intern at,

like, what you were interested in. So I interned with a paramedic, and then I

kind of realized that it was going to be super traumatic, and maybe I wasn't the

best with blood, and those are issues that I realized that this actually might

not be the job for me. But no, I was super serious about it.

I first met Adam at my audition, I believe.

That's, yeah, when I went in to read for the producers and the director.

And yeah, it was, you know, auditions can be like stressful and nerve

but I just walked into the room and it just felt like I'd known these people

forever and we just had so much fun.

was this project called At Any Price.

I was actually living in the Dominican Republic at the time that I auditioned

for this. I sent an audition tape and ended up booking it, which kind of

the course of my life pretty much. But it was an amazing experience with Zac

Efron and Dennis Quaid and awesome director Ramin.

And yeah, that was kind of my introduction to this whole industry.

Yeah, thanks for calling me back.

What?

Well, I remember reading The Guest. Oh, this was all so long ago, but I remember

reading it, and it was one of those scripts that you can't put down. You

know what happens, and it was such a fun read.

I'm such a massive fan of horror, but I feel like, at least at the time when The

Guest... came out there was a lot of bad horror movies and um there was

something uh i don't know you could you could feel adam's style through the

script and i thought there was something so fun about it and i especially loved

the character because you kind of meet her and she's you know she's got this

edge to her but you know she's just a regular kid and then she's like thrown

into this insane situation and she kind of comes out like a badass so i i really

enjoyed playing her Oh man, one of my favorite scenes to film was probably at

the end going through the maze at the high school

gymnasium and we're like going through this maze and then I face Dan's

and that was so fun.

Yeah, I think especially with the guests, it's one thing to read it but

to see it with Adam's... vision and the music and the editing and the colors in

the film. It came together way better than I ever imagined it. And it was

cool.

Being in the audience, yeah, just like seeing people's reaction was so fun.

Yeah, it's something I'll never forget.

Getting into character, I mean, it really depends on the director for me.

I really, I liked rehearsing. I think it's really fun to...

you know, work with the other actor and make it as grounded as possible.

And so I think rehearsals help. But also just, I don't know, on the day, being

in the environment, yeah, being on set, being in the costume, it kind of all

comes together.

Are you Anna Peterson?

Yes.

My name is Major Carr from the military police. I need you to come to me,

please.

Okay, what's going on? It's about David, Miss Peterson.

He's not who you think he is, and we need to go now.

Working with Adam was incredible.

I mean, I had one of the best times on this set. It was so much fun, and he has

such a vision, and it's always so special to work with a director that is

specific. He knows exactly what he wants.

And, yeah, he just created such a great environment on set that

gave us the freedom as actors to be able to kind of I don't know, have

fun with it, and yeah, I had a blast.

We shot in, it was in New Mexico, outside of, I think I flew into

Albuquerque, oh my gosh, this little town, there was one road down the

and then just like dirt roads, pretty much, I think there was a Taco Bell,

Carl's Jr.,

Hit up the Taco Bell a lot.

Gosh, what was it called?

Moriarty, of course. Good old Moriarty.

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever go back there ever again.

Oh, love Dan.

Dan's the best. I remember going into it, I knew that he was going to be in

and the only thing that I'd seen of his was Downton Abbey, which he's very posh

and proper, and I was like, I wonder, is he going to be able to...

pull this off.

And yeah, first down set I was like, holy shit. The accent, everything.

I was like, this is a brand new person.

You killed my parents.

I did.

It's always fun doing stunts.

And in that scene, scene, I'm like walking through the fog, and I end up

stabbed in the leg from Dan, and then Dan like tackles me and is choking me,

it was, I don't know, fun to do.

Which maybe sounds strange, but yeah.

I think it's always cool when you make a film and people really respond to it. I

mean, even to this day, people will be like, I fucking love the guest, and

it's...

I mean, yeah, that's what you always hope for. You always hope that you make

movie that connects with people and gets people excited.

Yeah, I think that we really did that with the guests.

What Adam created was something very unique at the time and really, I don't

know, was a very special experience to be a part of.