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Also Starring: Flora Cross
Posted by Rob Ortenzi on 13-Feb-08 @ 04:43 PM
When FLORA CROSS landed her first role in 2005's Bee Season, it was alongside Hollywood heavyweights like Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche. For her role in Margot At The Wedding, an off-color domestic dramedy directed by Noah Baumbach (The Squid And The Whale), Cross shares screen-time with Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black. Not too shabby for a 14-year-old, huh?
PHOTO: Neil Visel How was school today? [It was] really good. I go to a French school in Los Feliz [the Los Angeles neighborhood just east of Hollywood]. I was home-schooled for two years and then my brother and his girlfriend found this school, so we decided to go there. About half of my classes are in French and the other half are in English. I was born in France but both my parents are American, so I speak both languages. Which do you prefer? French, I think. The French language has more use to it and all my friends are French, so I'm more comfortable speaking that language. Did you do anything special to prepare for your role in Margot At The Wedding? Well, I was 13 when we were filming, but I'm playing a character who's supposed to be 11, so I guess I changed my voice a little bit. But then [director] Noah [Baumbach] told me to drop that-he wanted my own voice. There's a scene in the movie where you and newcomer Zane Pais [who plays Nicole Kidman's son in the film] are listening to LPs and you're holding a copy of King Crimson's first album [In The Court Of King Crimson]. Did you really listen to it? No, but I did listen to a Blondie record. That was my first time, and now I really like Blondie. I read somewhere that you play guitar. Yeah, a little... Not very well. [Laughs.] I started [taking] lessons a few years ago, but then I stopped. I play acoustic guitar and I used to write songs. I can't read music, though-that would be good for me to learn. What kinds of music do you listen to? I like Avril Lavigne, Natasha Bedingfield and the White Stripes... Green Day and Good Charlotte sometimes, too. Oh-and Lily Allen. I haven't actually been to a real concert yet, but I hope I can go soon. -J. Bennett CHEAT SHEET >> Flora Cross made her debut as 11-year-old spelling-bee contestant Eliza Naumann in 2005's Bee Season (also starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche); this month she plays Jennifer Jason Leigh's 11-year-old daughter Ingrid in Margot At The Wedding. ALT |
I love her, she was amazing in Bee Season and also in MArgot at the wedding, even tho it was smaller part... she looks so much older now, I wonder what she is like irl... anyone know? I know a guy who went to school with her, said she was really nice. What school is she at now? What is her next movie, anyone know? thx...