Dyllan Christopher and Quinn Shephard in Unaccompanied Minors
Interview: Quinn Shephard on Unaccompanied Minors
"I’m really nothing like my character," she said. "I think when I was playing the character I was sort of just thinking exactly about where she grew up and what she was like, and I was trying to put that in because it’s really hard for me to act that way, because I’m totally different than that in real life. So it was really hard to get the nerve to act that way, but hopefully I got it."
Her costar, Tyler James Williams, told Canmag that they were totally in character for their kissing scene, and Shephard confirmed it. "Were totally into our characters at that point, so we weren’t really concentrating on what we were doing so much as being our characters the most."
Unaccompanied Minors wasn't all fun and games, as the kids had to go to school on the set. "The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble she’d help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us. Well, I was, because I go to a public school."
The actors only saw the finished product the night of the press screening, but Shephard was happy with it. "It was very rewarding to see all of our work put together after only seeing bits of it in the trailer and when we were doing ADR. So I think when we saw it all together we were all just like, 'Wow, it turned out really good.' I had been a little bit worried that it would look just too crazy, but I think it really did turn out great."
An east coast girl, acting ran in Shephard's family. "My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls. They were sort of boring, because I’ve seen them on tape. They always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair. But she saw that and I guess she really wanted to get me started in acting, because she knew that I had the interest that she had, only she wanted to get me started young. So she took me to some agents and I got accepted when I was really young, I was only three, and that’s where I started."
Unaccompanied Minors opens to theatres tomorrow, December
8th.
For trailers, clips, stills, posters, more interviews and additional movie info, go to the Unaccompanied
Minors Movie Page.
Stay tuned for updates.
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