MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Dive From Clausen's Pier interview
Spotted in South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
Michelle Trachtenberg isn't the one who makes The Dive From Clausen's Pier in her new Lifetime movie.
She's taking a major leap of another kind, however. Buffy's little sister is growing up.
Adapted from a best-selling novel, Dive casts 19-year-old Trachtenberg, formerly of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Carrie Beal, who plans to break off her engagement to her childhood sweetheart after a Memorial Day picnic with friends. At the lakeside gathering, however, Mike (Will Estes, American Dreams), makes an ill-advised dive into shallow water, resulting in paralysis.
Confused over whether she should stay in a relationship she had planned to end, Carrie bolts from her Wisconsin hometown to New York, where she quickly falls into an affair with an older man (Sean Maher, Brian's Song).
Trachtenberg says she relished playing Carrie, a young woman going through a painful passage in her life, even as the actress herself is making a professional transition into adult roles.
"What attracted me to Carrie is that she is so flawed and realistic," Trachtenberg says. "She has problems that people deal with on a daily basis. I don't mean everyone has a fiance who is suddenly in a life-threatening accident, but everyone has to make sacrifices and choices in her life.
"Carrie is closer to me in maturity level than other characters I've played in the past. I was attracted to her strengths and the way she handles the situations she finds herself in. It takes a lot of guts to leave everything you know and go out on a limb."
The role also calls for some tasteful but sexy love scenes with Maher and Estes, and she says she's ready to leave behind those naive teens she has played so successfully to date.
"It feels very natural and organic for me to play a character like Carrie right now, because I'm not a 15- or 16-year-old anymore with huge insecurities," she says. "I know how to talk to boys. I appreciate parts like Ice Princess and other past roles, but Carrie is sort of a transitional character, testing out the waters, seeing if I felt comfortable being more mature."
Michelle Trachtenberg isn't the one who makes The Dive From Clausen's Pier in her new Lifetime movie.
She's taking a major leap of another kind, however. Buffy's little sister is growing up.
Adapted from a best-selling novel, Dive casts 19-year-old Trachtenberg, formerly of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Carrie Beal, who plans to break off her engagement to her childhood sweetheart after a Memorial Day picnic with friends. At the lakeside gathering, however, Mike (Will Estes, American Dreams), makes an ill-advised dive into shallow water, resulting in paralysis.
Confused over whether she should stay in a relationship she had planned to end, Carrie bolts from her Wisconsin hometown to New York, where she quickly falls into an affair with an older man (Sean Maher, Brian's Song).
Trachtenberg says she relished playing Carrie, a young woman going through a painful passage in her life, even as the actress herself is making a professional transition into adult roles.
"What attracted me to Carrie is that she is so flawed and realistic," Trachtenberg says. "She has problems that people deal with on a daily basis. I don't mean everyone has a fiance who is suddenly in a life-threatening accident, but everyone has to make sacrifices and choices in her life.
"Carrie is closer to me in maturity level than other characters I've played in the past. I was attracted to her strengths and the way she handles the situations she finds herself in. It takes a lot of guts to leave everything you know and go out on a limb."
The role also calls for some tasteful but sexy love scenes with Maher and Estes, and she says she's ready to leave behind those naive teens she has played so successfully to date.
"It feels very natural and organic for me to play a character like Carrie right now, because I'm not a 15- or 16-year-old anymore with huge insecurities," she says. "I know how to talk to boys. I appreciate parts like Ice Princess and other past roles, but Carrie is sort of a transitional character, testing out the waters, seeing if I felt comfortable being more mature."
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