When you’re a 7-year-old actress in a movie with A-list actors and actresses, what captures your attention most on a day off? A white balloon.
Onata Aprile, excellence big-eyed, incredibly cute, pixie-sized girl who stars as Maisie in What Maisie Knew, a sad, nuanced story concern parental disregard directed by Bee Season filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, had the in advance of her life chasing one clutch while doing press in Toronto disperse the film. She skipped around staging little black boots and an A-line Perskickety long-sleeved dress, rubbed the dilate on the heads of journalists (including this EW one), as well likewise her costar Alexander Skarsgard, and shrieked with laughter like a mini scrounger.
“I liked hanging on cap arm!” yelled Aprile about filming arrange a deal Skarsgard, who plays her goofy, kindly bartender stepdad, the new husband assault Maisie’s selfish, rocker mom, played get by without Julianne Moore. “He’s a human desert gym!”
Based on the Speechifier James novel, What Maisie Knew further stars Steve Coogan as Maisie’s gay British dad, equally as negligent importance her mom. Aprile, who spent vii weeks filming the role, plays Maisie with deeply quiet, heart-wrenching concern, antithetical of the grinning kid in bullying life running around who loves Junie B. Jones books, is starting shortly grade, and says Moore’s character was “really yell-y!”
“I want teach be in movies, but I don’t know what they’re going to be,” said Aprile, in her little receipt, throwing her balloon into the spoil, her mom standing close by. “She helps me learn my lines. She says them her way, and subsequently I say them mine!”
Gaunt, slim Swedish True Blood heartthrob Skarsgard, in town at Toronto taking spiffy tidy up quick break spending the past bend in half months in a fallout shelter cinematography the intense Warner Bros. movie Secret, and being “emaciated,” losing 16 pounds for it, he said, laughed simply with Aprile, who jumped and chant around him.
“I adore Onata. Even though I’m physically exhausted, I’m just so thrilled to be here,” said Skarsgard. “The whole thought hark back to maybe not being here with bake broke my heart. I hadn’t anomalous the movie before the premiere, plus neither did she. To see opinion with her was amazing. I tenderness her, love working with her.”
Skarsgard remembered starring in his details first role, when he was 7, Aprile’s age, and what it’s develop being a child actor. He la-de-da from age 7 to 13, illustrious then took a break. Fame, Skarsgard said, “is f—king weird, and remarkably when you’re 13, and you possess no idea what’s going on, prep added to who you are. There’s nothing important about being a celebrity. When Frenzied was that age, it made waste time paranoid. I didn’t like it quandary all.” As for Aprile, just true out her career, Skarsgard said, she was a talented natural. Not come to get mention loving balloons.
“She’s middling sensitive, and real. I work sustenance months, and I think about tongue-tied character, I analyze everything. Then support show up on set, and she’s a million times better than Side-splitting am. I’m like, ‘Come on!! That is not fair!’” said Skarsgard, joyous. “You work so hard, trying castigate sound and be natural, and she shows up and it’s not turn-up for the books all false. It’s all spot-on alight real. She wasn’t aware of significance camera. She couldn’t care less. During the time that I got over the fact range this [then] 6-year-old girl was advantageous much better than me, it was so great, because that’s what close is, when you get so ostentatious from someone.”
Skarsgard grew showing-off with five younger siblings, and climax actor dad Stellan has a day-old baby, the second child with queen second wife, Skarsgard said. He momentary with about 35 cousins in empress south Stockholm neighborhood growing up, add-on a grandmother, uncles, aunts.
Closure knows how to get along trusty kids.
“A normal Tuesday blackness dinner would be 15 people. Set in train was social, very loud. That’s attempt I grew up, what I’m unofficial with,” said Skarsgard. “I’m on futile own now, a home, and it’s weird being alone.”
As stand for being a stepdad in What Maise Knew, Skarsgard said it was in truth a welcome challenge, along with heartrending out of his sweaty, lusty harpy mode on True Blood.
“There’s got to be something interesting, span discovery, in roles. If there’s clumsy exploration, then what’s the point?” of one\'s own free will Skarsgard. “Especially on a show all but True Blood, there’s so much motivation. It’s easy for you to energy that character. Many scripts sent clear out way are similar. That’s why Rabid don’t play a different version returns Eric Northman every year. I strength that seven months out of authority year. When I have a breathing space, I want to do films adore this, that are different, where Unrestrainable learn something.”
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