Lily Collins has made a living out of playing the doe-eyed ingenue in films like "Mirror Mirror," but audiences shouldn't expect a similarly sweet-as-pie protagonist in the upcoming film "Writers." In fact, when we sat down with Lily recently at the Toronto International Film Festival (her first!), she let it be known that her character, Samantha, is a bit of a minx.
The film follows a family through one tumultuous year in which they experience plenty of romantic ups and downs. For Lily, "Writers" is the "most meaningful story" she's filmed thus far, due in large part to her character's fully fleshed-out arc.
"She puts it all out there. She puts it on the line at the beginning of the story," Lily said. "She's very black and white. There's no in between. There's no gray area. She doesn't believe in love because of what she's seen in her parents, and she's very tainted in that sense."
As you'd expect, her storied past leads to a few unwise decisions in the present.
"With her, it's all about guys, but not in the warm, loving sense," Lily explained. "It's very, just, take me or leave me now, or I'm going to move on to the next guy. Samantha just needs to be taken care of, but what I love about the story is that she starts out as that girl...but it's not a cliched version of that character. [Writer/director] Josh [Boone] did such a great job writing her in a way that you still feel for her, and she's not this character that you don't like automatically because of her actions, but she grows into a character who ends up finding love in a place where she never imagined with someone who she always would have laughed at at a bar. It's not her type at all, but she learns to accept herself through this guy and, in turn, find love. It was fun to play an arc like that."
"Writers," which also stars Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly and Logan Lerman, is slated to open sometime next year.
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