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 Eva Amurri
Spotlight By: Andrea Tuccillo Eva Amurri was born to act. Literally. Her mother is Susan Sarandon and her father is Italian director Franco Amurri so it seems only natural that she gravitated towards films. What sets her apart from other Hollywood offspring is that she prefers to forge her own path. She took her time breaking into the acting biz, opting to go to college before jumping into acting full-time. Now, with a degree from Brown University, Amurri is ready to take on Hollywood. With no less than four movies coming out this year alone, this celebrity daughter is well on her way to a successful career that’s all her own. So far, Amurri might best be known for playing the wild child amongst a school of devout Christians in the 2004 comedy Saved!. Now in her new film, The Life Before Her Eyes, she’s playing the devout Christian. She plays Maureen, the conservative best friend of Evan Rachel Wood’s rebellious character, Diana. The character was a stretch for the more outgoing Amurri, but she welcomed the challenge. “That was the appeal to me, actually,” she says. “At the time [when I read the script] I was working on this movie called The Education of Charlie Banks and I was playing a really different character, like totally promiscuous, party girl, Senator’s daughter. It was a period piece; it was all this stuff going on. And I read the script and here was this girl, this born-again Christian virgin, good girl, who at the same time was really sweet and open-minded in order to be there for her friend and I thought, God what a great character. Very introverted. It was acting that I hadn’t done before and it was scary, but I put trust in [director] Vadim [Perelman] and in myself and we got it to the place where it needed to seem realistic.” So what’s more fun? Playing the good girl or the bad girl? “Playing the whore, of course!” Amurri says. “It’s so fun to play the extremes. I think that if Maureen was even more extreme in her ways it would have been that same idea. Extremes are the most fun to play because you can really put a ton of energy and imagination and there isn’t this place where it’s getting a little close to yourself where you have to kind of make sure you draw the line between self and character. It’s so extreme that you think you can really go for it. It’s much scarier to play things that are closer to you, I think.” The film itself blurs the lines between reality and imagination as it switches between two different timelines. One focuses on the teenage girls’ friendship and the events leading up to a horrific school shooting. The other follows a now-adult Diana (Uma Thurman) and shows how that fateful day completely changed the course of her life. However, nothing may be what it seems. ... |
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