Ashley Greene's first horror movie was Interview with the Vampire
Ashley Greene's first experience of the horror genre was 'Interview with the Vampire'.
The 38-year-old star features in the new horror flick 'It Feeds' and explained how it was seeing the 1994 movie – which starred Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt – as a child that first sparked her interest in scary films.
Speaking to The AU Review, Ashley said: "The first scary-ish movie for me was 'Interview with the Vampire'. I was very young, and I know it's not traditional horror, but my mom wasn't happy about it. I was at my cousin's house and we watched it. I really liked it."
The 'Twilight' actress later started watching horror films alone in her house as she grew older but lived to regret tuning into 'The Strangers'.
Greene recalled: "I kind of got away from (the genre) for a little bit, but I liked it until I moved into my own house and I was then very specific about the horror movies I would watch. Like, I watched 'The Strangers' and, Jesus Christ, why did I do that?
"'Why are you doing this? Because you were home', or whatever that line is, like, oh my God. I'm never leaving my house again!"
In 'It Feeds', Ashley plays a clairvoyant therapist who must confront her past trauma to help save a girl who is being haunted by a malevolent spirit and acknowledged the challenge of finding the emotion to reflect the film's plot.
She said: "I think it's always challenging to trust myself and just let go in these spaces, and not to continue to live in a space that we've been talking about. Like, we now have the ability to just leave things on set and to separate ourselves from that.
"I do find there's always this moment of me going, like, 'Oh, no, what if I don't get there? Because it is such an abnormal space, how do you fake adrenaline?'
"I find that I'm really big on preparation work, so that when I get to set I can know I've done all the work and whatever is going to happen is going to happen. It's always a little scary to ask if you're going to make it believable for the audience."
Ashley likened acting to working "in therapy" as she builds an entire life and background for the character she plays on screen.
She explained: "I always say when I'm working on these things it's like I'm in therapy. I'm in talk-therapy with myself, or whoever I'm working with, because I think you're just going through your life and connections and these characters' worlds. The way I work is that I create this whole backstory for these characters.
"The first time you read a script is when you get such an honest response. You wonder how you connect. It's such a release."
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