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something about it. Other than that you pretty much know nothing.” What I do know is that Hayley was placed in some pretty volatile situations which produced some troubling images as a result. Ellen wasn’t concerned about acting in these situations because she believed in the character, and she believed in the film. She didn’t feel the need to contest what she was doing. “I don’t think I wanted to debate the issues at all because if I took any kind of moralistic approach on it then... [pause] I believed one hundred percent in what I was doing and there was no point in me debating anything. I had an agenda and I was going to accomplish it.”

Yet another thing that helped the film along was the flexibility and guidance of the film’s director, David Slade. And although they were shooting with an extremely limited amount of time, if the actors had any suggestions he was open to them. For Ellen in particular, this was very refreshing. “He was always so open he gave me so much room to just experiment and flail my body around; you know really kind of express myself in ways that weren’t on the page.” Then was improvisation an essential part of this film? “There wasn’t an extensive amount of improv but at the same time if I felt something, like if I really felt something, I could go to David.” Sometimes those impulses or feelings to change something or do it a different way really adds to a film. But once you have the final product your left with all the stuff that worked no matter how it evolved.

“I just started this thing, I’m just learning, I’m just trying to figure it out,” is what Ellen told me referring to her budding film career. No stranger to the entertainment industry, Ellen Page has been on screen since 1997, the television screen that is, in the series Pit Pony. Since then she has taken on a number of projects and has just begun inching her way into cinema. But when it comes to working in film, or any high stress job for that matter, there’re always ups and downs. “It can be really exhilarating and it can be really, really draining…I’m learning to establish a balance.” There’s plenty of time for that in the upcoming years, and just like in any other job, you get used to it.

With a film as controversial as Hard Candy, one wonders how family and friends of the film’s stars react seeing their sibling or friend, namely Ellen, placed into the types of situations she experiences in the film. “My father saw it, he loved the film, he said ‘I feel like I’ve been kicked in the stomach’ and I said ‘good.’” Her father wasn’t the only one who was strongly impacted; two of Ellen’s close friends enjoyed ...

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