After "American Beauty" you must have had numerous offers – what attracted you to "The Hole"?

I was actually surprised when I got the script because I just assumed I’d only get offers for very dark, solemn, quiet, meek, young girls and yet this one had such a wide range of emotion and gave me a huge gamut to run so I was all over it.

You play an English schoolgirl – how did you get the accent?

That was also part of what made the role difficult, I was wondering would I be able to pull it off? I worked with a voice coach for a month beforehand but a lot of it just came on the day - plus working with an all English cast and crew in England helped me to stay in that groove.

Would you go into "The Hole" in real life?

If someone dared me to I might. Unfortunately I haven’t had many opportunities to fulfil a lot of dares but I can be a little saucy.

Are you sick of playing teenagers?

No, I think there’s still a lot I can do with the whole teenage thing so I’m not knocking it. I’m still only eighteen and I definitely don’t want to be playing twenty-two-year olds before I can legally drink!