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ever could or would ever see, so how to play that was a really fun challenge. It was the hard part, but it was also the fun part. It’s just all the CGI and the green screen that presents its own funny little challenge of working with little plastic people that aren’t there. It’s just its own challenge.”

Parker even has a rather intriguing analogy with which to explain to us what such a process is comparable to.

“It’s like going to work with an actor that’s not that great, but times 50,000, because you can always project something,” she claims, “Say someone is not trying that hard or they’re not having their best day, or not to be mean, because sometimes people are just not into it or they don’t like the project or they can’t connect to that actor.”

“The two of you just don’t have something that you could project onto them,” Mary-Louise continues, “I’m sure people have done that with me, you know, like you can find something. You can’t really find much in a plastic gremlin, you have to delve, you have to conjure something up within yourself.”

Taking center stage in Spiderwick are in fact children. They consist of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and August Rush star Freddie Highmore and Irish actor Sarah Bolger, best known for her roles in In America and Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker.

When asked about her experience working with the both of them, Parker shared plenty of praise for both her young co-stars. First, she spoke of her working with Highmore.

“I think [Freddie’s] a smart kid and so professional and so bright that I’m sure he made everyone else feel like everything’s going to be fine and he’s not cocky at all either,” Parker says, “I think he just works so hard and is so committed that he just makes everyone think that he can do it and he really can.”

“He was doing things that were slightly out of his wheelhouse,” she says, “He’s a very elegant, dignified, intelligent young adult, but he’s English trying to play this troubled American and he does it so well. I think there’s a lot he can do.”

Then, the actress spoke of her experience with Bolger.

“I thought [Sarah’s] so fantastic, that girl,” Parker recalls, “I never seen anyone burst into tears when you tell her she has to go home. She loves to work. She loves to be on the set. It could be 12:30 at night and two degrees outside and you tell her she has to go home and her eyes fill up. She’s just like, ‘Is there anything else I have to do?’ I’m like, Sarah, don’t you want to go to sleep, and she’s like, no, I just love being on a film set, I just love it.”

However, this has also been a time where seemingly too many of Hollywood’s younger talents like Lindsay Lohan find their lives complicated by their extraordinary skills as actors during very formative years of growing up. We ...

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