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Perth Now
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
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."
Perth Now
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Shawn Ashmore had a ghostly encounter at a Romanian hotel
Shawn Ashmore stayed in a haunted hotel in Romania. The 45-year-old actor stars in the new horror movie 'It Feeds' – which centres on a young girl who insists that a malevolent entity is feeding on her – and he reflected on a ghostly encounter he had while working on a movie in the European country. Shawn told The AU Review: "I do happen to be a believer. I've had two very strange, let's call them ghost stories. "One of them was at a hotel in Romania. I was shooting a movie there and the hotel was 1000 per cent haunted. Everybody that was there on the crew, and there are a bunch of younger actors, we each had unexplainable events happen in different rooms. "In my room, there was somebody walking around my bed every night. I deduced that it was probably like a housekeeper that was just doing their job. My pillows would fluff. The glasses would clank. I'd hear feet shuffling around my bed every single night. There was nowhere to go. I wanted to move rooms." The 'X-Men' actor continued: "I remember one night we were all hanging out in someone's hotel room, having a few drinks and listening to music, and I said in passing, maybe after two weeks of us being there, I was like, 'Has anybody had any weird experiences in the hotel?' And it was like in a movie when the record scratches, like, everybody said yes. Everyone had a story. "There's not enough time to explain all the stories, but they were all different and mine was actually quite light compared to some of the other experiences. So I've had strange experience that I can't explain. Maybe I'm not 100 per cent, but I'm also not a sceptic." Shawn plays the father of the tormented girl in 'It Feeds' and spoke of the difficulty at having to act out extreme emotions in a limited timeframe. He said: "In this film there are moments where I have to literally break down and sob and cry, and probably go through the worst grief a person can possibly go through. "Can I do that in the 10 minutes they need me to? This is an independent film. We have a huge day. We have 10-15 minutes to nail this close up. Can I do that? Can I get there? It's scary."
