Jacinda Barrett in The Last Kiss
Jacinda Barrett Talks The Last Kiss
“I do sort of go on and off, because it’s impossible to just stay in that emotional weight all day long, including your lunch hour, including a hour while they set up the lights,” she said. “It just doesn’t do you any good. At a certain point it if you keep doing that, it dissipates, the emotion leaves you altogether. So I find for me what is the best sometimes, depending on the scene, like the scene with Blythe where I’m on the floor and she’s leaning over me and talking to me and I was crying, they just used music before every take. But then that confrontation scene with Zach, we shot that all day for 12 hours, and I just would go into it and then go out of it and start laughing at the end of it. Because laughter’s often the other side of that extreme tears and vulnerability, it’s sort of like ridiculousness at what you’re going through, so I would forget about it, we would joke around and then we would start up again. That’s how we got through that.”
Then you have to figure hormones into the equation. “I have a lot of friends who’ve been pregnant right now, all my best friends have been pregnant, or were pregnant at the time, and the fact that she’s three months pregnant coupled with what she has just found out that day about her parents, it just couldn’t be more inconsiderate of him to make that choice to go out that night when her mother and father have called her crying, saying the marriage is falling apart, and then also what is happening with their other friends, with Michael Weston and his father. I think it’s all of it on top of each other, a very emotional day, and just sheer anxiety at all the waiting she had to do. She just worked herself into a state of panic and dread and hysteria.”
Since The Real World, Barrett has struggled through TV guest spots, movie roles as “the girlfriend” or at best, part of an ensemble where the special effects are the star. The Last Kiss is her dream role.
“I remember when I was going into meet on it just saying, ‘God, these roles aren’t like this for women.’ It’s so rare that you have this much to play, and so many colors, that early part in the script she’s light and carefree and fun, but still intelligent and flawed, and then that great emotional arc at the end. So I kept feeling like, ‘My God, I’m so lucky that I’m getting the chance to do this.’ I don’t know about whether timing plays into it. I’m sure it does because you’re constantly evolving with each new challenge, though I’m sure it’s easier to do it now than it would have been five years ago.”
The Last Kiss opens this Friday, September 15th.
For the trailers, poster, more interviews, and movie info, go to The Last Kiss Movie Page.
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