Anna Paquin
“I didn’t really know what an audition was. And I didn’t know what being in movies was all about. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as acting.”
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
I spent an afternoon in Venice, CA with Anna Paquin back in 2000, when the 18-year-old was truly on the cusp between girl-and woman-hood. As we sat down for a bite at an outdoor café,
Anna Paquin Pt. 2
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
EG: Playing roles like that, does it help your life out or does it make it more confusing?
AP: Um, I don’t know. I’ll have things to draw on for my work from experiences I’ve had or experiences friends of mine have had that I know about. I usually kind of forget about my work when I’ve finished something, and all the looping, its all done--you
Anna Paquin Pt. 3
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
EG: You still interested in Law?
AP: Yep.
EG: Do you have a favorite book?
AP: Hmm. I want to read more books by Tim O’Brien. I really like the way he writes. That’s probably my favorite book of the moment, The Things They Carried. Its about Vietnam, and Tim O’Brien was a soldier in the war…somewhat fictional, somewhat fact based sort
Anna Paquin Pt. 4
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
EG: Do you think you are always going to act? Is it possible that something in college might take your interest elsewhere?
AP: I would have to be pretty bowled over. And love with whatever the new field was, because I am pretty in to what I’m doing, you know.
EG: What makes you laugh?
AP: Um, strangely specific, yet vague questions. People actually being interested
Anna Paquin Pt. 5
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
EG: Do you play?
AP: I play from time to time,. Just classical music. Bach, Vivaldi. Actually one of the strings on my cello is broken at the moment, and I really need to get it fixed, and I am feeling guilty about that. There’s a lot of singers and bands that I think…just that it’s so amazing how they produce some record
Anna Paquin Pt. 6
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
EG: What about the last dream you had?
AP: A few days after we finished school, I dreamt that I had a paper to turn in and it was one of those dreams where, I had like a dead line but for some reason I couldn’t move. I was stuck sitting in one place, and I just would look at the clock and it was
Anna Paquin Pt. 7
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
EG: Who did you like working with?
AP: Well the only people I really worked with a lot were Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellan, and they were great. Everyone else I worked for a little bit, and I wished I could have worked with them more. We had like a really great cast, you know.
EG: Do you get anything artistically out of working with an actor
Anna Paquin Pt. 9
Anna Paquin Interview
By E.C. Gladstone
EG: What made you want to keep acting?
AP: Well, it was always good. You know, you go to work every day, and everyone includes you, you’re not like the youngest child who is too young to go play with other kids kind of thing. You get to actually be part of everything and you are doing completely different stuff than you would normally do. I
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