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 Jess Weixler
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime It’s always fun to profile an actor on the rise and no up-and-coming actor has proven to be more exciting than Jess Weixler. While she started out doing guest appearances on a variety of TV series, she made her feature film debut in the 2006 comedy The Big Bad Swim. Now, Weixler has scored her first lead role in the incredibly unusual black comedy/horror film Teeth, which has gotten rave reviews since it first premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. She plays a sexually repressed teenager named Dawn, whose very anatomy she discovers has an unusual ability, when threatened with male violence. A movie as seemingly unusual as this can be quite a risk, especially for an actor still on the rise. And as we soon discovered from Jess, when she discussed the film with us, she too had her own reservations about taking the role when she first read the script. “I was totally freaked out when I first saw the script,” she recalls, “And it wasn’t until my second read, when I got offered it, that I decided to do it after sort of thinking that it wouldn’t be a good idea to do it. But I met [director/writer] Mitchell [Lichtenstein] and he was so sweet and unassuming and charming and smart and I realized it wasn’t a bad, B-horror movie, it was more of a dark comedy. “Then I started reading it, more of a tone of it being a dark comedy and not really a horror,” Weixler adds, “And that’s what really turned me around on it and I started to love the idea of playing a part that really had never been played before.” The idea of a female character with essentially a monstrous vagina seems rather hard to swallow for most people, but the film hints of a deep and substantial allegorical subtext as the 26 year-old actress explained for us what she feels the story and the character of Dawn ultimately represents in the film. “[It’s about] a young girl coming into her own sexuality and a girl being confused by sex,” she explains, “And then, having to like discover her body and then, eventually be proud of it and like her body. Because I think by the end, she thinks she’s sexy and in the beginning, she’s totally shut down.” She also shared with us her own interpretation of what she thinks the film is. “I’ve gone down the path of thinking of it like a superhero movie, sort of mixed with a monster movie, although I don’t think that Dawn is a monster,” Jess believes, “But it’s not a horror, it’s more of a dark comedy and like any satire, it’s got a blend of elements where you got to play it real enough that people can care about her as a person, but you have to realize that it’s totally in the world of fantasy, so a lot of it is going to be over the top, so ... |
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