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The times change, the modes of communication evolve, but some things\u2014like the first pangs of love or the sting of a friend\u2019s betrayal\u2014never change.\n\nCreating a film about growing up in our digital age took a writer who could poignantly capture the voice of this generation. From five-time Oscar\u00ae nominated and three-time Oscar\u00ae winning producer [James L. Brooks](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000985\/) (Spanglish, (Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment) and writer\/first-time director Kelly Fremon Craig, THE EDGE OFSEVENTEEN is a coming-of-age comedy with a refreshingly authentic voice.\n\nNadine ([Hailee Steinfeld](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2794962\/)) and Krista ([Haley Lu Richardson](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4726634\/)) are inseparable best friends attempting to navigate high school together\u2026 until Nadine\u2019s older brother Darian ([Blake Jenner](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4296357\/)) and Krista begin dating. With her view of the world rocked, Nadine is forced to see the people in her life \u2013 including her well-meaning but distracted mother ([Kyra Sedgwick](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001718\/)), and unlikely mentor and History teacher Mr. Bruner ([Woody Harrelson](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000437\/)) \u2013 with fresh eyes and new appreciation that people\u2014and life\u2014are more complicated than she thought.\n\nThe film stars Oscar\u00ae nominees Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Pitch Perfect 2) and Woody Harrelson (upcoming LBJ, \u201cTrue Detective\u201d), as well as Kyra Sedgwick (\u201cThe Closer,\u201d \u201cProof\u201d), Haley Lu Richardson (The Bronze, \u201cRavenswood\u201d), and Blake Jenner (Everybody Wants Some, upcoming Billy Boy). The cast also features Hayden Szeto (upcoming The Unbidden, \u201cChop Shop\u201d) and Alexander Calvert (\u201cArrow,\u201d \u201cThe Returned\u201d).\n\n**THE ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT**\n\nWriter\/director Kelly Fremon Craig was inspired to pen [THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1878870\/) by the authentic teen films of her youth, a type of film not often found in today\u2019s marketplace. \u201cI\u2019ve always been intrigued by periods of rapid emotional growth and self-examination, when situations change around us, forcing us to step into new roles and re-determine who we are and how we feel about ourselves. I started this project in an effort to try to capture this particular age and generation as truthfully as I could and with a respect for the complexity and messiness of it all. Passing from youth to adulthood is intense and terrifying and beautiful, and in many ways the experience of anyone, any age, shedding their old self and becoming new. I wanted to explore that.\u201d\n\nFremon Craig\u2019s spec script about a girl and her best friend in high school came to the attention of legendary Oscar\u00ae and Emmy\u00ae Award-winning producer James L. Brooks at [Gracie Films](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0134988\/). \u201cKelly had a first draft and when we first talked - just as she was leaving the office - she turned around and she said \u2018No one will ever work harder than I do.\u2019 And that did it,\u2019\u201d laughs Brooks. \u201cOur time together had been just a surface meeting until that moment. I took it as somebody telling their core truth.\u201d\n\n\u201cHonestly, I wasn\u2019t captivated by that first draft,\u201d admits Brooks. \u201cIt was good work. But when Kelly said that, then we went to work. She went away for a big chunk of time. I\u2019m a big believer in research. She\u2019d bring back interview tapes and we\u2019d look at it and it would inspire us.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe first time I read the script, I thought this is special,\u201d remembers longtime Brooks collaborator and Gracie Films producer Julie Ansell. \u201cThe characters were so full and so funny. We spent almost four years working on it, which is our process. This is what we like to do. We look for character-driven comedies and drama. We like to find a person with a voice, with something to say, and then help the writer fine-tune it. This is an amazing piece of writing\u201d\n\n\u201cThe thing that\u2019s so great about Jim is he is so committed to capturing something honestly,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cPart of why we have such a good relationship is we both go nuts over getting the details right. Jim is always pursuing the truth. When we started this process, we took a journalistic approach. Are we saying something real? I really tried to figure out what was going on emotionally today, and how technology is affecting relationships. But interestingly, I found so much of the core things were exactly the same as my own coming-of-age experience.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly came back with a second draft and it was oceans away. I have never thought it possible that there could be that great a difference between a first and second draft because in that second draft, there was a voice, there was somebody who saw the world differently,\u201d says Brooks. \u201cWith every movie there is a constituency and that constituency knows whether or not you are telling the truth. There were people who talked differently and yet revealed themselves to be familiar people as they talked differently. The dialogue was brilliant, the story came together and it was daring and fresh. I was flap-jawed. From that point, Kelly was an extremely talented woman taking the express train to her destiny.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly was amazing during the whole development process,\u201d agrees Ansell. \u201cShe threw herself into it. She got into the pain and everything she found elevated the script from a very funny, sweet script into something that really hit you honestly. Kelly captures the voice of these kids, and got the emotions that I remember feeling back in high school, when there\u2019s inherently so much drama and so much that you learn about yourself. You have to go through the pain of finding out who you are, to come out the other end as a stronger person.\u201d \u201cYou are paying very righteous dues when you do research,\u201d adds Brooks. \u201cThe third time you hear something you think it\u2019s generally true. But also, meeting those kids, seeing those faces in your head\u2026 it creates something in you that wants to serve their truth. It\u2019s a small thing, but it makes a difference in creating characters that linger.\u201d \u201cIn my opinion, she wrote literature,\u201d Brooks furthers. \u201cA voice is an unusual thing in Hollywood, and for somebody to come along with an individual voice and get their movie made is a big deal. When there\u2019s a distinctive voice in a script, and it doesn\u2019t happen that often, it\u2019s great to show up. At 3:00 in the morning on a cold set, you have to know why you're there.\u201d\n\nBrooks describes the story succinctly. \u201cAfter reading the first draft, there were some people who wanted to title the film Besties, and that first draft focused on a friendship between two girls. But now it\u2019s about a lot more than that. The friendship is still the catalyst for a lot of action, and the story is mainly about this central character Nadine, but there are a couple of people in this movie with secrets, which adds great tension.\u201d\n\nNadine and Krista are inseparable friends\u2026 until Nadine discovers Krista has quietly begun dating Nadine\u2019s older brother Darian. \u201cNadine\u2019s a girl who has always been on the outside, but she\u2019s had her one anchor, her best friend Krista,\u201d Ansell describes. \u201cBut it\u2019s that time to start growing and moving on and Krista\u2019s started to do that. Nadine comes to realize that a lot of what she thought about the people in her life is actually not true. She begins to see life through eyes other than her own. By the end of the movie, she starts to understand that people and life are more complicated.\u201d\n\nGracie Films\u2019 reputation for acclaimed and thoughtful material as well as their track record for mentoring fresh filmmakers made it the perfect home for Fremon Craig and her screenplay. \u201cI don\u2019t do this very often and when I do, the motivation is always the same\u2026 a writer with a real voice, and that writer will always play a continuing role with the movie. That\u2019s all we do with our little group,\u201d says Brooks. \u201cThe first writer we worked with was Cameron Crowe for a picture called Say Anything, and he ended up directing that project. With Wes Anderson on Bottle Rocket, we knew he was going to direct going in, and with Kelly we knew it going in. We knew this would be her film to direct.\u201d As with any first-time director, there were concerns. \u201cKelly is an Orange County girl, just a delightful human being and there was a moment when we worried whether she\u2019d be too nice for the job,\u201d laughs Brooks. \u201cBut she\u2019s a force of nature. I don\u2019t think she knew it was going to come to her like that. It\u2019s a passion project and something went off inside her. Two days in, we knew she was born for the job, which has been great to see.\u201d\n\nCo-Producer Amy Brooks adds, \u201cOne of Kelly\u2019s strengths is that she\u2019s always open, always learning and she can\u2019t get her fill. Even when filming, Kelly never stopped the research process. Kelly brings rawness and laughter, and I feel so lucky that I get to go to work and sit next to Kelly every day. She allows you to be yourself. That's what the cast feels and I know that's what the whole crew feels.\u201d\n\nThe dialogue in the movie is particularly raw, especially from the main character Nadine. \u201cWe might be the only R-rated movie that cheered when we were told that we could be an R. Not because we wanted to be a shocking R, but because to be an R meant letting everybody let it rip and be themselves. It wasn't like we're gunning for a certain rating, it was just about being real,\u201d says Amy Brooks. \u201cIt is rated R for reality. The film had to have the cadence and the heart and rhythm of how people really talk to each other. That was so important to Kelly. If you spend two seconds with Kelly, you see she goes for the truth all \n\nthe time.\u201d \u201cPlus every five pages there\u2019s a twist,\u201d adds Amy Brooks. \u201cWhen you started to think you'd figured out what this movie was about, there was a surprise. The story is familiar and comforting, like you want a movie to be, but full of surprises.\u201d\n\nThe film has themes that will resonate with all audiences. \u201cWhen times seem really down, you learn from it and go through it and become stronger,\u201d adds Ansell. \u201cIt\u2019s about how friendship can wax and wane and change. People change, a mother and daughter can come to understand each other a little bit more. Audiences will feel an affection for Nadine and what she\u2019s gone through in learning to understand herself, and come out ultimately feeling like this character\u2019s going to be okay.\u201d Amy Brooks adds, \u201cKelly really captured the comedy and sadness in how a family falls apart and comes together and falls apart and comes together while they're grieving. She also captured that teacher that calls you out, that you hold onto for the rest of your life because that teacher got you as you\u2026saw you and celebrated that. I hope everyone feels \u2018I got this movie in a personal way and it's mine. This movie was for me.\u2019 But this movie is for all of us.\u201d\n\n**ABOUT THE CASTING**\n\nProducer James L. Brooks, Blake Jenner, Haley Lu Richardson, Hailee Steinfeld, Director\/Writer\/Producer Kelly Fremon Craig, Kyra Sedgwick and Hayden Szeto seen at STX Entertainment \"The Edge of Seventeen\" Photo Call at Four Seasons Hotel - Almond Room on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Dan Steinberg\/Invision for STX Entertainment\/AP Images)\n\nThe heart of the story is 17-year old Nadine who feels she doesn\u2019t quite fit in. \u201cThe central character of THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN is somebody you\u2019ve never seen before, but the minute you see her you're not going to forget her,\u201d states producer James L. Brooks.\n\nOscar\u00ae nominated Hailee Steinfeld is the center of an exceptionally strong cast with wide appeal. \u201cThis is a character-driven movie and finding Nadine was an incredible journey - very difficult and incredibly important,\u201d remembers producer Julie Ansell. \u201cWe must have seen over 1,000 girls \u2013 from knowns to unknowns. We read everybody and we weren\u2019t going to make the movie unless we found the right actress. Hailee walked in and that was that. Actually, every part was like that. It was very important to find the right people for every role, because the film is so performance-driven that without the right cast, you don\u2019t have a movie.\u201d\n\n\u201cCasting was enormously difficult across the board, because I wanted people that felt real,\u201d describes Fremon Craig. \u201cHailee is a wunderkind. She is staggering. I actually know that nobody else in the world could do this part, because the casting process was so enormous over so many months. Hailee walked in and she was just Nadine from top to bottom. She\u2019s so alive and follows every impulse. She gets this character deeply. It\u2019s electric. Directing \n\nher, I just wanted to get out of her way.\u201d \u201cHailee is a great young actress. This is the right role at the right time with the right actress. It takes so much for any movie to work,\u201d muses James Brooks, \u201cespecially a movie that has an original voice. The minute you're original, you\u2019re in space\u2026 you\u2019re not quite on firm ground.\u201d\n\nBy her junior year, Nadine has not yet made peace with the one-two punch of simultaneously hitting puberty and losing her father four years before. \u201cAs well as being funny, Hailee brings an intelligence to Nadine. She can bring both strength and vulnerability, but at the same time you get a character who is really hurting,\u201d adds Ansell. Steinfeld comments, \u201cNadine is so smart, witty, quick, and feels everything. Most times when characters are hit with a curve ball, they try to cover it up or mask their emotions. But Nadine wears her feelings, her heart, and her everything on her sleeve. There\u2019s something so refreshing about seeing someone that feels so much. She\u2019s so desperate for any kind of human connection, it\u2019s amazing to watch her seek that with anyone she possibly can.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m 18-years old, so I know almost everything in a teenager\u2019s life is, in such a reasonable way, so blown out of proportion,\u201d says Steinfeld. \u201cEvery little thing that happens is such a huge event. Everything that happens to Nadine means so much. Everything matters. Everything is so deeply felt.\u201d\n\n\u201cI felt so connected to the core of the story because of how many characters that have something so relatable going on in their lives,\u201d reveals Steinfeld. \u201cThe script was true to a teenager\u2019s life in the 21st century. I personally have experienced so many of the things that Kelly wrote for this character and her writing is so honest and raw. It was a weird vulnerable state going in there admitting to Kelly the similarities to what my friends and I have really experienced.\u201d\n\nSteinfeld adds, \u201cReal conversations between kids in a high school hallway are not always appropriate. Kelly did an incredible job capturing that, but not making it more than what it is. The tone of the script has a perfect balance. Kelly made every single page so descriptive and so deep, yet focusing on the internal struggles of each character. I loved that the script goes so far into the details of this girl\u2019s world, covering everything from how she\u2019s feeling to what she\u2019s wearing.\u201d\n\nUp-and-coming actress Haley Lu Richardson was cast in the pivotal role as Nadine\u2019s inseparable best friend Krista who falls for Nadine\u2019s brother. \u201cKrista is a good person, a really sweet girl who wants the best for the people she loves and for herself,\u201d describes Richardson. \u201cI love her so much because she\u2019s maternal towards Nadine. I imagine her being raised really well, with good morals. She's selfless and has always been there for Nadine. When she is confronted with the choice between doing something for herself and doing something for Nadine, it's not easy for her to make the choice that fulfills her, but she\u2019s brave and she does it. Nadine and Krista met when they were very young so they are super comfortable with each other and feel safe together. Now that they are in high school, Nadine is still figuring her stuff out and Krista is her rock.\u201d\n\nFremon Craig adds, \u201cFinding an actress who could go toe-to-toe with Hailee Steinfeld was a serious search because she is so good. Hailee can run circles around most everybody. But Hailee and Haley Lu really had a great chemistry and felt like lifelong friends instantly. Haley Lu is also dead real. You don\u2019t see the acting. She\u2019s so absolutely inside the moment and so present. She\u2019s such a smart actress and incredibly self-aware when it comes to her own talent.\n\nShe knows the work that she has to do to get inside the role and she does it. She always shows up with a great attitude and delivers and it\u2019s 100% real. She feels like your friend and she\u2019s complicated and interesting. She brings so much truth to the role.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe relationship between Nadine and Krista is the ultimate best friend relationship,\u201d describes Steinfeld. \u201cIf they\u2019re not in the same room, they are likely texting or on the phone or on FaceTime. They\u2019re everything to each other, especially Krista to Nadine. Krista is every person in Nadine\u2019s life that she\u2019s ever wanted. Krista is always there for Nadine.\u201d\n\nRichardson connected with the onscreen friendship, \u201cThe script was very real, sweet but quirky and specific at the same time. I've held my friend's hair before while she was vomiting. I know about those real moments, but it's definitely not a stereotypical high school kid movie. It's what you see in high school, the language you hear, and the stuff you go through during the emotional roller coaster years.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut the story is also not what you expect. The first time reading the script, I was thinking that there was going to be a moment where Krista decides not to pursue a relationship with Darian to placate Nadine, and she doesn't do that,\u201d reveals Richardson. \u201cThat was cool because that\u2019s what would likely happen in real life. There's not always necessarily a happy ending in the way \n\nyou expect. Most times you have to go through a struggle and separate from the comfortable to then find what is your next step.\u201d\n\n\u201cNadine feels her best friend is being taken away,\u201d explains Steinfeld. \u201cKrista is the only person that understands Nadine. She can get along with anybody, but Nadine\u2019s hard to read, and Krista\u2019s the only one that\u2019s ever given her that time and shown her affection. The moment she perceives that Krista is being taken away, it tears Nadine into a million pieces. Even though Krista is with her brother and wants so badly to make it work between all of them, Nadine sees it as her life coming to an end. Unfortunately, she feels her best friend is no longer hers.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe main goal Kelly and I had for Krista was not making her the villain that goes off with her best friend's older brother and breaks her friend's heart,\u201d adds Richardson. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to make her this girl that all of a sudden turns into a cool girl with everything she wants. It was important that being with Darian is the best thing in the world for her, but also the hardest decision she's ever had to make because it's breaking her best friend's heart.\u201d\n\n\u201cAgain we had a large search for both of those roles,\u201d says Ansell. \u201cWe cast Blake Jenner as Darian fairly quickly. We thought the Krista part would be easier but it turned out to be very difficult. Luckily, Haley Lu came in pretty late in the process. At the beginning, you only see Darian through Nadine\u2019s eyes and they have a difficult relationship. At first, the audience won\u2019t realize he\u2019s actually the backbone of the family, who sacrifices for his mother and sister. One of the biggest things that Nadine starts to understand is her brother isn\u2019t who she thought he was, is actually this really quiet hero, and she learns to appreciate him.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe perception of Darian can easily be that he is Mr. Popular and he\u2019s got it all, a perfect life. But on the inside, he's definitely broken,\u201d describes Jenner. \u201cHe's been putting himself back together since he was 14. Once his family lost their father he dubbed himself the caretaker. Their mom couldn\u2019t cope and be the mother that they needed. He\u2019s always subdued his own emotions for the sake of his family. He\u2019s cut off the potential of his own life to be their Batman. There\u2019s more than meets the eye with him. There's a lot of pain. His dad passed away at the prime time where most fathers and sons talk about the birds and the bees, and what it means to be a man. He has had to teach himself, so there are a lot of voids in Darian.\u201d\n\n\u201cI come from a big family, so I've always been a sucker for family-oriented films,\u201d adds Jenner. \u201cStories revolving around a family in turmoil always hit home for me. The second I read the script I was hooked because they are all living their own separate lives within this one world that they share. I was Darian growing up, except I was the youngest of four boys. But with my friends, I always felt some responsibility to them because I wanted to be a big brother. I tried to \n\nbe there for them, so I understand what it\u2019s like cutting off your own ability to feel for the needs of others. This movie is a lot like therapy for me.\u201d\n\nDirector Kelly Fremon Craig had Jenner write in a journal while prepping for the role. \u201cBlake is one of the most committed, researched, and hardworking actors I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cHis talent is extraordinary and he blew me away. The minute he came in, he had me crying.\n\n\u201cHe puts so much work and nuance into it. He was so game to really look at his character\u2019s back-story. Darian is a complicated character, because you think he\u2019s one type of guy at the onset, but then you find out there\u2019s a lot more underneath. Blake is so ridiculously handsome, but also a guy who\u2019s a million miles deep. He was just the perfect person to play Darian.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly\u2019s script is so youthful, timeless, and definitely not sanitized,\u201d comments Jenner. \u201cIt\u2019s a story about a family who lost their way a long time ago and with ebbs and flows, they find themselves again and reach peace. There are several different little movies within the movie. I love that Nadine is ballsy and not filtered. I know a lot of girls who are very forward with their language, so it\u2019s nice not to see a watered down version of a girl who has gone through a rough \n\ntime. The movie definitely does not shy away from the R-rated language. It sounds corny, but it\u2019s just life. It\u2019s not trying hard. These characters are who they are. They're losing their temper and dropping F-bombs when it\u2019s warranted. \n\nThey're crying and keeping to themselves and reaching out for a loved one when it\u2019s warranted. It\u2019s all real, which I like.\u201d The leading trio enjoyed the camaraderie on screen and off. \u201cBlake is a good guy and a really thoughtful, grounded, and wise actor,\u201d says Richardson. \u201cHailee was raised really well. She's young but she's got her stuff figured out. I like working with her. Sometimes it's really hard to stay in an intense emotional scene because we're singing a song from a YouTube video between takes. Like the scene in the fast food restaurant when Krista is telling Nadine that she wants to be with her brother Darian. Hailee was so in it, I was so in it, living and breathing the characters, and improvising back and forth.\u201d\n\nSteinfeld agrees, \u201cHaley Lu and I hit it off quickly, developing a natural banter between us. We picked up on each other\u2019s mannerisms, so we were able to bring those the little things that we each do to the screen.\u201d \u201cIn reality, I\u2019m very close with my family, so to play a character that feels \n\nso completely isolated has been really challenging,\u201d admits Steinfeld. \u201cSpecifically, it\u2019s been very hard to work with Blake because I really like him. We find so many things in the moment. He\u2019s such a great guy, but he is very good at playing the brother that Nadine doesn\u2019t like very much. Their relationship is so layered because Nadine thinks he has everything \u2013 looks, grades, and friends.\n\nEvery person he walks by shows him attention and love. Nadine walks down the hall and people snicker\u2026 and we\u2019re related!\u201d \u201cI love their relationship. It\u2019s a tug of war the entire time because they\u2019re speaking different languages,\u201d adds Jenner. \u201cHe's setting aside his frustration, and she's speaking freely about hers. My last audition was a chemistry read with Hailee, doing one of our heavy scenes, and she was just all there. She's a great actress, who is willing to jump into the deep end and give it all she has. She\u2019s inspiring as this misunderstood character trying to find her way in the aftermath of tragedy. Nadine related to their father the most and when she lost him, she lost her light. She's playing the victim because all she's ever really known is being lost, so Darian has had to be the responsible one.\u201d\n\nVeteran actors Kyra Sedgwick and Woody Harrelson portray the key adults in the story \u2013 Nadine\u2019s mother and teacher. \u201cKyra is so wonderful because she\u2019s gifted at comedy but she\u2019s also a beautiful dramatic actress,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cKyra can be big and she can be small. She did a great job of capturing especially Mona\u2019s hidden vulnerabilities, those little moments where you have compassion for her. Even in the moments where she\u2019s not her best self, you can always feel for her character and know that there\u2019s a person inside, maybe missing the mark, but always trying really hard.\u201d\n\n\u201cI absolutely love Mona,\u201d states Sedgwick. \u201cPerhaps somebody will feel she's not likeable, but to me, she's someone who\u2019s just trying to do better. She's now alone in the world, and is somebody who never really had a lot of tools to cope. She finds herself grasping. In the best of \n\ncircumstances, Mona would struggle with being a mom, but especially when her go-to guy isn't there. Her son Darian reacts by being an uber-responsible parentlike child, which is its own version of hell. Nadine does the opposite - I can\u2019t please my mother so I'm going to act as terrible as possible. Nadine feels smarter than her mother, and both teens feel like they have to take care of themselves, they're lost at sea without really having a parent who\u2019s fully present.\u201d \n\n\u201cIt's pretty remarkable that Kelly was able to really show the hole that is left in this family in such a lean, brilliant way. The father is there for such a short amount of screen time, yet you completely understand the loss this family has felt,\u201d explains Sedgwick. \u201cThe script is very impressive, great writing with so many layers. It's very special. I know how good a part this is. I'm really grateful to be able to be funny and be broken and fragile and sad as well\u2026 there's not a lot of opportunities like that.\u201d\n\n\u201cKyra was always somebody that we had talked about for their mother. She\u2019s a gifted dramatic actress, and can be pissing funny,\u201d comments James Brooks. \u201cEarly in the movie, there's a scene where Mona has to back up out of the car, her skirt's hiked up, and she's trying to get her kid, who doesn't want to go to school, out of the back seat,\u201d describes Amy Brooks. \u201cKyra is so inherently funny and great at physical comedy. She's classically funny, like Lucille Ball-funny.\u201d \n\nSedgwick comments, \u201cThat scene is right on the edge of farce, but it's still real, devastating and hilarious. You fall in love with a character when you laugh at something that they do. You can take her to some harder places later because the audience fell in love with her vulnerability at that moment of just trying to hold it all together.\n\nAll really great humor comes from pain, and trying to put a game face on pain is funny. It's hilarious because we relate so much. Kelly and I talked a lot about what it\u2019s like to be in Mona's head and what she's really struggling with and why Nadine is so triggering and difficult for her. Why it is that they really push each other's buttons so intensely? Kelly recently had her first child so we talked a lot about how hard it is to be a mom. You want to do it perfectly but you just can't, \n\nand you're constantly reminded of that over and over again.\u201d\n\nSteinfeld enjoyed creating the strained mother-daughter dynamic with Sedgwick. \u201cKyra\u2019s a firecracker,\u201d states Steinfeld. \u201cNadine has a very interesting relationship with her mom because Nadine really feels like she is the parent. Nadine feels she doesn\u2019t need her approval. Even though she pretends she\u2019s got it under control, her mom is her mom, and she needs and wants her mom in her life. There are so many layers within that relationship so it has been fun to \n\nbring to life.\u201d\n\n\u201cHailee is really just a total natural, but also has a lot of complexity and depth to her,\u201d comments Sedgwick. \u201cShe's curious and a wise soul, who is super bright, so those super smart things that Nadine says just roll right off her tongue as if they're hers. Hailee is lovely, she's doesn't have an entitled bone in herbody which is surprising and wonderful.\u201d\n\nFilmmakers needed a powerful actor who could make an impact on a lead character with limited screen time and were thrilled to cast Oscar\u00ae nominated actor Woody Harrelson as Nadine\u2019s History teacher. \u201cWe needed a Mr. Bruner who could stand up to Nadine,\u201d says Ansell. \u201cThey have a fractious relationship, but at the same time the scenes between Woody and Hailee are hysterically funny.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere are maybe a handful of actors with the dexterity that Woody has - he is so ridiculously funny and then can break your heart in the next minute. He can\u2019t have a dishonest moment on screen,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cMr. Bruner needed the deadpan and the cool. I felt so enormously lucky to get Woody, and he just crushed it. What I love about Woody is he comes in with so many ideas, and some of his ideas are the best jokes in the movie.\u201d\n\n\u201cWoody and I are good friends. It was just the right thing that happened at the right time. He happened to be coming through Los Angeles, we met up, and the next morning he was able to meet Kelly. Woody really has the most crowded schedule a human being can have,\u201d laughs James Brooks, \u201cbut we were able to make it work.\u201d\n\n\u201cI was interested because my buddy Jim is producing it; and Kelly wrote an amazing script and when I met her I thought she was terrific. A high school gal in the middle of crisis is not a story I would necessarily see myself being involved in, but it\u2019s really wonderful writing. It\u2019s very funny, very smart, and also very unique, so I was psyched to jump in,\u201d comments Harrelson.\n\n\u201cMr. Bruner is one of these guys who is probably pretty good at his job, but he comes in, \n\npunches the clock, and looks forward to getting home to his girlfriend and his baby. In some ways, he\u2019s maybe not the model teacher. But he has a special relationship with Nadine in that he honestly likes her,\u201d adds Harrelson. \u201cNadine does not connect with anyone else in the school, but for some reason she connects with my character. He\u2019s certainly a sounding board for her and someone who she can come to for help. He\u2019s not the most sentimental guy, and \n\nyet it\u2019s obvious that he cares about her.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs I told Kelly, that scene where Nadine walks into his home, and sees the baby and the girlfriend, is so beautifully written that I cried,\u201d admits Harrelson. \u201cIt really touched me. In fact, that scene was another of the things that made me want to do the movie. The moment is a big surprise to Nadine because she thinks I\u2019m some lonely guy. It\u2019s cool when she and the audience see another world that they don\u2019t expect with Bruner.\u201d James Brooks reflects on their chemistry, \u201cIt just started happening, developed through the first day. It\u2019s nuts because a week and a half ago Woody was playing Lyndon Johnson and then he had to go to Europe for the opening of \n\nThe Hunger Games. Next he gets on a plane, travels 18 hours, the next morning he shows up and it just clicked in the first hour.\u201d \u201cWoody and Hailee are electric together,\u201d agrees Fremon Craig. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you could possibly plan or manufacture their chemistry, which happened \n\nalmost the minute they got in the room together. They bounce off each other, and trust their instincts and follow what would happen in the moment. They\u2019re fiery and every take was different and alive in its own way, with such vitality that you cannot take your eyes off either of them.\u201d\n\n\u201cNadine\u2019s stuff with Mr. Bruner is my favorite thing about this whole movie,\u201d says Steinfeld. \u201cReading those scenes for the first time, I remember thinking \u2018How the hell does Kelly come up with this stuff? It\u2019s so amazing!\u2019 Nadine is reaching for any reaction out of this guy. The great part about how it\u2019s written is he\u2019s there for her, but is so un-phased by any outrageous thing she has to say. That keeps her on her toes, and keeps her thinking of any possible thing she can say for shock value. One of the things I love so much about Nadine is that she doesn\u2019t hold back. She and Mr. Bruner have this real beautiful connection. He\u2019s a bit of a father figure for her. I\u2019m a huge fan of Woody Harrelson and those moments are some of my favorites.\u201d \u201cHailee is an extraordinary actress. In the first scene we did together, I was really amazed with how adept she is at flowing with everything and trying new things,\u201d says Harrelson. \u201cShe\u2019s a very creative and very smart actress\u2026really has the goods. She knows what she\u2019s doing and it\u2019s great to see someone with that ability at this early stage of her career. Jim and I both think that she has the potential to be acting for the next 60 years. She really is good.\u201d\n\nMaking his major motion picture debut, Hayden Szeto plays Erwin, a classmate awkwardly pining after Nadine. \u201cThe minute Hayden came in, we said \u2018lock it up\u2019,\u201d says James Brooks. \u201cWe didn\u2019t need to audition anyone else.\u201d \u201cWe actually cast Hayden before anybody else. Literally he was cast before we had money for the movie because we liked him so much,\u201d laughs Ansell. \u201cWe had thought Erwin was going to be the hardest one to cast. Erwin is attracted to Nadine and is very nervous, but he\u2019s also sweet and funny. We were worried about finding a strong young actor who could do all of that. Erwin really is one of the best parts of the script because here\u2019s this unlikely guy, who typically never ever gets the girl.\u201d Ansell adds, \u201cYou want him to get the girl. You want her to be with him. You really do root for him. Erwin appreciates Nadine in a way that no one else seems to and really gets her.\u201d\n\n\u201cHayden crushed his audition with his ability to improv, which is unparalleled,\u201d reveals Fremon Craig. \u201cHayden has a lightning fast mind. He is so funny and so quick. You\u2019re nailed to your seat watching them and you\u2019re just dying to see what he\u2019s going to do next. He\u2019s so loveable and you just adore him. Especially after we put him on a Ferris wheel when he\u2019s afraid of heights, and throw him in a pool when he can\u2019t swim.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou do root for the characters, because they\u2019re not plain archetypes, they\u2019re real people. That\u2019s the genius of Kelly. It\u2019s great writing,\u201d comments Szeto. \u201cTalking to your crush in high school, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen and these awkward moments are so honest. Kelly has a great eye for that. So many of the characters remind me of people in my life. There\u2019s no good \n\nor bad person in this. I was the Darian of my family and my sister always had a chip on her shoulder.\u201d Szeto adds, \u201cI\u2019ve also been Erwin. Every boy has been Erwin\u2026 that boy who is just trying to get through it, trying to be somebody, and trying to fit in.\n\nErwin had a real strength to him. I chose not to play the defeat of being the nerd. In real life, people don\u2019t want to fail. People want to win, and that\u2019s the angle that I came from with Erwin. He just wants to get the girl. Erwin\u2019s personality is a direct shield against any awkwardness because he\u2019s already very selfdeprecating.\n\nPart of his charm is his weak points are also his offense.\u201d \u201cI asked Kelly what inspired her to write the part of Erwin and she told me she went to a university with about 80% Asian-American students,\u201d shares Szeto. \u201cDuring her time there, she met some of the most charismatic, funniest, and talented people who didn\u2019t take themselves too seriously and she found such charm in that. This story is very grounded in truth and she feels that real life is very diverse and interracial couples are everywhere. It\u2019s not a thing.\u201d\n\nHailing from a family of Chinese artists, Szeto has dual Canadian and Hong Kong citizenship and lives in Los Angeles. \u201cFrom my own personal experience auditioning for American films, and even my mom asked why I didn\u2019t go back to Hong Kong or China to be an actor, because she commented that, \u2018they don\u2019t write any good parts for you.\u2019 The roles available are the nerd or the friend. But I felt that somebody has to stay here and inspire people to write those parts,\u201d says Szeto. \u201cTo complain doesn\u2019t get you anywhere, you\u2019ve just got to do the work. You\u2019re an artist.\n\nYou\u2019re not here to prove something, because art is not about doing something right, it\u2019s just about doing. My own culture is very calculated. Chinese culture is very meticulous, very safe, and they value stability. I\u2019m blessed to have this opportunity to be a storyteller in America and to play this part. I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more as an Asian-American artist.\u201d \u201cI parallel with Erwin quite a bit. It\u2019s quite a big part and sometimes I feel like I\u2019m the new guy, if you compare me to the seasoned cast. Hailee is a prodigy and the situation can be intimidating for me, just as Erwin\u2019s intimidated by Nadine. It works to my advantage. Hailee is a powerful, powerful actress, \n\nand sometimes I catch myself just watching her. She\u2019s overwhelmingly beautiful and not just on the outside, she has such a great soul. She\u2019s also a machine, managing her Twitter, her Instagram, and her Facebook\u2026 communicating with her fans in between takes. I\u2019m just trying to prepare,\u201d laughs Szeto. \u201cShe\u2019ll deliver in the scene and then be back on her phone. How does she do that?\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen we shot her reaction to watching my character\u2019s student film, there\u2019s no actual film being played on set, yet her eyes were glistening and her reactions were so genuinely real,\u201d remembers Szeto. \u201cI got emotional watching her performance on the monitors, afraid I was the only one being affected. But I looked over to James and Kelly, who were glued to the screen, and I\u2019ll never forget this because James whispered, \u2018Wow.\u2019\u201d\n\nTwo Canadian actors round out the cast: newcomer Alexander Calvert playing Nadine\u2019s crush Nick, and veteran Eric Keenleyside appearing briefly as Nadine\u2019s father Tom, whose untimely death kick starts the story. \u201cRight off bat the script sounded like how people actually talk in that weird unforgiving environment that is high school,\u201d comments Calvert. \u201cThe girls felt like real \n\ncharacters. I liked that Nadine really had a voice that sounded like how I felt at 17\u2026 a little \n\nbitter and a little upset. She's really an outsider, who is forced to be alone, and has to \n\ndeal with herself. But Nadine starts to find herself, she just makes it through. That's what \n\nhigh school is actually about: making it through.\u201d\n\n\u201cI've been shooting the TV show \u2018Arrow\u2019, playing a villain named Anarchy, simultaneously with this movie. It's been very fun because I get to go from torturing families there and come here to hang out at high school again. One day I worked on both sets and ended up shooting for almost 24 hours straight. Good thing I'm young-ish,\u201d laughs Calvert.\n\nThe entire cast juggled very busy schedules to be a part of this special movie. \u201cBetween Alexander being on \u2018Arrow,\u2019 Blake going to \u2018Supergirl,\u2019 Hailee having a hit single and releasing an album, plus Woody opening Hunger Games and starting the next Planet of the Apes, our cast is constantly going in and out.\n\nBut when they come back to set, everyone feels like they are back home. We developed our bubble here with this blissful shoot. The only complaint I have is I so badly want to see everybody at once. Unfortunately, there's not a scene in the movie where our entire cast is together, so a sequel would be worth it just for that reason alone,\u201d laughs Amy Brooks.\n\n\u201cKelly gave this great speech at the production meeting before we started filming,\u201d remembers James Brooks. \u201cShe sits down for the first time, as a director, with 50 people around this big octagon table, and she talked about wanting the film to be truthful and as honest as possible, and stating that everything about the production should be about supporting the actor\u2019s performances. You sit there in that moment thinking \u2018I\u2019m glad to be here.\u2019 It was the first day the crew was getting all together and to have somebody say that out loud was great.\u201d Ansell adds, \u201cKelly seems to be born to the job. Part of what we like to do at Gracie Films is work with new writer-directors with a really strong vision, like Kelly. Surrounding her with people who are very competent and know how to support her, she\u2019s just thrived. She has an innate ability for directing, and she knows what she wants.\u201d\n\nOne of the team supporting Kelly was legendary acting coach Larry Moss. \u201cLarry is an amazing acting teacher who Jim knows,\u201d explains Amy Brooks. \u201cKelly, Jim, Julie, and I sat in on one of his classes and we didn't see an actor who didn't cry. He'd do these tiny adjustments and their performance would change. We staggered out of his class having witnessed greatness. Larry has now become part of our family. Kelly welcomes everyone with a \u2018What do you have to give?\u2019 attitude. This is a party, just bring your favorite food. Kelly is pretty singular in not having an ego or vanity about \u2018This needs to be all mine.\u2019\n\nEvery character in this movie has a number of arcs, which are tough stuff to play, so Larry was a great resource for anyone who wanted it.\u201d \u201cWorking with Larry Moss has been a dream come true for me,\u201d shares Steinfeld. \u201cWhen I auditioned, Kelly and Jim asked if I was cool with working with Larry. They were all on the same page. I was able to build this foundation with \n\nLarry, and them come here to Vancouver and play with Kelly, knowing I was ready for anything she could throw at me.\u201d \u201cLarry opened my eyes to so many things going between the scenes and how to figure out what's happened in between, which is something that you should subconsciously do as an actor,\u201d adds Richardson. \u201cThe first time I met Kelly was a hastily arranged meeting in LA when I was weighing whether or not to do the project, and we took a long walk,\u201d remembers Harrelson. \u201cI thought \u2018wow, this is a really incredible lady.\u2019 She\u2019s \n\nvery strong and funny, but you can never really tell how someone will be as a director because it\u2019s such a huge undertaking. Some people absolutely fall apart under the pressure. I was interested to see what would happen with Kelly once on set. Also, Jim told me that of all the directors working, only 1.8% are female, which is shocking. So I liked the aspect that this has a \n\nfemale director, and that she wrote it. When I came to Vancouver, I was really delighted because she\u2019s so smart on set and really knows how to talk to actors.\n\nShe articulates what she wants very well. She\u2019s very patient and decisive. She\u2019s getting the most bang for her buck and getting the most out of these scenes. And she doesn\u2019t really compromise. It\u2019s not like \u2018okay, well that\u2019s good enough. Let\u2019s move on.\u2019 She\u2019s going to make sure she gets the right take.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly has been so helpful to me in building Nadine as a character through so many conversations, over many months now,\u201d says Steinfeld. \u201cYou can see in her eyes how passionate she is and where everything about this character comes from.\u201d Richardson agrees, \u201cKelly is very collaborative. She told me right off the bat, \u2018I want you to feel free with this character. I don't want you to feel boxed in, I don't want you to feel attached to the words,\u2019 which are amazing. I\u2019ve developed a trust with her. It's a very simple story but the way it's told is so \n\nspecial.\u201d\n\n\u201cEarly on before we started shooting, Kelly asked me to do a stream of consciousness exercise, writing from the character\u2019s perspective,\u201d recalls Jenner. \u201cI was improvising and not being filtered... getting to his state of mind - anger, happiness, whatever - just going with it and Kelly made no judgments. She was willing to have conversations no matter how long they ran.\u201d \n\n\u201cKelly wasn\u2019t telling me exactly what to do, but she was sending me in the right direction,\u201d adds Jenner. \u201cI totally feel we\u2019re being taken care of by an artist.\n\nShe lived and breathed these characters for so long. We\u2019re in amazing hands because she's got blood in this. She's owns it. It\u2019s inspiring to be on set having these conversations because they came from her heart. Every single word of this came from her. You definitely see the artist at work.\u201d\n\nPrior to the start of principal photography, the director led the cast through a period of intense rehearsal. Sedgwick enjoyed this, \u201cWe started with a really good improv with Hailee and I. Coming from theater, I love rehearsal and it was interesting to talk to Hailee about it because she's not used to rehearsal.\u201d \n\n\u201cIt was great to also have James Brooks there \u2013 I\u2019m a big fan of that guy, he\u2019s an idol. He's truly a god, really he is,\u201d laughs Sedgwick. \u201cBut what scares me about James Brooks is that the actors in his movies often do their very best work. It\u2019s a little scary asking yourself the question \u2018will this be my very best work?\u2019 There isn't a false moment in any of his movies. He's an icon, and his movies are unforgettable. They make a very deep and lasting impression, and they stand the test of time, which is so unusual.\u201d\n\nSedgwick continues, \u201cI asked Jim, how do you manage to get these incredible performances out of people? He said that it really starts by making sure that everybody in the cast and crew know that their paramount task is to create a safe place for the actors to do their best work, and that nothing's more important than that. The shot's not as important and the lighting's not as \n\nimportant. After being on this set, I believe Kelly feels the exact same way. Each day lives or dies on the performances.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s so incredible to watch Jim process everything on set. Just when you think maybe he\u2019s not listening, he comes up with the most insane and relevant idea. He\u2019s so in tune and brilliant,\u201d comments Steinfeld. \u201cI actually met him when I was younger at The Simpsons Movie premiere because he knew my dad. I didn\u2019t see him again until I auditioned and now to be on a set with him is really surreal, to be on something that he is involved with is special.\u201d Richardson agrees, \u201cHe's a big deal. Just about everything that man has touched has turned to gold. He's a genius who created all of these iconic things, yet he\u2019s so friendly and sweet. But then all of a sudden, he laughs and has this crude humor that you wouldn't expect. My mom's pretty jealous that I'm doing this movie right now with him because Terms of Endearment is her favorite movie ever. The first time I met Jim, I came down from my hotel room to go to a wardrobe fitting and I was super nervous. I saw him in the lobby and he invited me to ride in his car. I thought \u2018you don\u2019t know how cool I feel right now.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen I came for the table read, I was looking at the name tags around the table, and I noticed James L. Brooks is going to be sitting right there!\u201d laughs Szeto. \u201cWhen Jim walked in, I wanted to go up and shake his hand. What an honor, I even had a speech prepared in my head. Then he said, \u2018you\u2019re funny, love your audition tape.\u2019 It was like Michael Jordan saying you\u2019ve got a nice jump shot.\u201d Szeto adds, \u201cJim has been a father figure to me throughout the whole production. I was definitely overwhelmed the first couple days on set, and he said something really profound. He and Kelly actually pulled me aside and he told me a lot of actors spend their whole lives looking for what he calls their mirror, who they really are. He and I felt that I\u2019d lost sight of that, of who Erwin was, and he pulled up my audition tape and showed me, \u2018this is your mirror.\u2019 It was a really touching moment. He told everybody to get out and Kelly asked, \u2018what do you need?\u2019 I needed space and time and they cleared the room for me. They told me to shut the door and take as long as I needed. I\u2019m so thankful to be working with these people that believe in me so much. It\u2019s incredible having somebody of that level being so patient with somebody so new. That talk with Jim and Kelly that day really sums up my whole experience on this project \n\nbecause I learned something great in that room.\u201d\n\nBrooks has a stellar track record of mentoring actors and filmmakers. \u201cI remember years ago, Jim was flying off a lot to Dallas, Texas,\u201d comments his friend Harrelson. \u201cI was wondering how good must this script be that he\u2019s trusting a first time director and all these basically first time actors, and putting all this effort into it? Of course it was Bottle Rocket, and it was Wes Anderson directing Owen and Luke Wilson. Jim has such wisdom and passion about material\u2026 it\u2019s hard to even imagine how much influence he has when he\u2019s mentoring someone.\u201d \n\n\u201cI hope that people watch this film and think \u2018I know that person, I am that person, I\u2019ve been there, and I\u2019ve felt that\u2019,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cI hope people see themselves reflected in it. That was my own experience writing it.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis movie fits into that genre of the classic John Hughes films and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but also I feel like this is breaking the mold,\u201d says Jenner. \u201cI haven't read a movie that's about coming into your own and finding yourself that has perfect balance between comedy and drama, but this makes you laugh and cry like you're a baby.\u201d \u201cYou feel like you watched someone go through something, and really struggle to get there, but get there at the end,\u201d says Richardson. \u201cThe lesson is no matter how hard and intense something seems in the moment, \n\nyou're going to get through it, learn from it, and end up being stronger.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen people come out of this movie, I really want them to know they can make it through. I wish more people had told me that high school will end,\u201d says Calvert. \u201cYou'll get out. There is life beyond. If I could speak to anyone struggling in high school, I would tell them that it ends. Life gets more interesting as you age. You do not want to peak in high school.\u201d\n\n\u201cGrowing up watching movies, they\u2019ve always given me hope that no matter how bad problems get, you can solve them if you have the will to,\u201d shares Szeto. \u201cI hope this film draws attention to how fragile we all are and how, as human beings, our greatest asset is to be empathetic, which can also be our greatest downfall. Sometimes we overreact and it\u2019s okay to admit that.\u201d Steinfeld sums up, \u201cTHE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN is a story of a girl trying to find connection and contact with anything and anyone. 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The times change, the modes of communication evolve, but some things\u2014like the first pangs of love or the sting of a friend\u2019s betrayal\u2014never change.\n\nCreating a film about growing up in our digital age took a writer who could poignantly capture the voice of this generation. From five-time Oscar\u00ae nominated and three-time Oscar\u00ae winning producer [James L. Brooks](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000985\/) (Spanglish, (Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment) and writer\/first-time director Kelly Fremon Craig, THE EDGE OFSEVENTEEN is a coming-of-age comedy with a refreshingly authentic voice.\n\nNadine ([Hailee Steinfeld](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2794962\/)) and Krista ([Haley Lu Richardson](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4726634\/)) are inseparable best friends attempting to navigate high school together\u2026 until Nadine\u2019s older brother Darian ([Blake Jenner](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4296357\/)) and Krista begin dating. With her view of the world rocked, Nadine is forced to see the people in her life \u2013 including her well-meaning but distracted mother ([Kyra Sedgwick](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001718\/)), and unlikely mentor and History teacher Mr. Bruner ([Woody Harrelson](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000437\/)) \u2013 with fresh eyes and new appreciation that people\u2014and life\u2014are more complicated than she thought.\n\nThe film stars Oscar\u00ae nominees Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Pitch Perfect 2) and Woody Harrelson (upcoming LBJ, \u201cTrue Detective\u201d), as well as Kyra Sedgwick (\u201cThe Closer,\u201d \u201cProof\u201d), Haley Lu Richardson (The Bronze, \u201cRavenswood\u201d), and Blake Jenner (Everybody Wants Some, upcoming Billy Boy). The cast also features Hayden Szeto (upcoming The Unbidden, \u201cChop Shop\u201d) and Alexander Calvert (\u201cArrow,\u201d \u201cThe Returned\u201d).\n\n**THE ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT**\n\nWriter\/director Kelly Fremon Craig was inspired to pen [THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1878870\/) by the authentic teen films of her youth, a type of film not often found in today\u2019s marketplace. \u201cI\u2019ve always been intrigued by periods of rapid emotional growth and self-examination, when situations change around us, forcing us to step into new roles and re-determine who we are and how we feel about ourselves. I started this project in an effort to try to capture this particular age and generation as truthfully as I could and with a respect for the complexity and messiness of it all. Passing from youth to adulthood is intense and terrifying and beautiful, and in many ways the experience of anyone, any age, shedding their old self and becoming new. I wanted to explore that.\u201d\n\nFremon Craig\u2019s spec script about a girl and her best friend in high school came to the attention of legendary Oscar\u00ae and Emmy\u00ae Award-winning producer James L. Brooks at [Gracie Films](http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0134988\/). \u201cKelly had a first draft and when we first talked – just as she was leaving the office – she turned around and she said \u2018No one will ever work harder than I do.\u2019 And that did it,\u2019\u201d laughs Brooks. \u201cOur time together had been just a surface meeting until that moment. I took it as somebody telling their core truth.\u201d\n\n\u201cHonestly, I wasn\u2019t captivated by that first draft,\u201d admits Brooks. \u201cIt was good work. But when Kelly said that, then we went to work. She went away for a big chunk of time. I\u2019m a big believer in research. She\u2019d bring back interview tapes and we\u2019d look at it and it would inspire us.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe first time I read the script, I thought this is special,\u201d remembers longtime Brooks collaborator and Gracie Films producer Julie Ansell. \u201cThe characters were so full and so funny. We spent almost four years working on it, which is our process. This is what we like to do. We look for character-driven comedies and drama. We like to find a person with a voice, with something to say, and then help the writer fine-tune it. This is an amazing piece of writing\u201d\n\n\u201cThe thing that\u2019s so great about Jim is he is so committed to capturing something honestly,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cPart of why we have such a good relationship is we both go nuts over getting the details right. Jim is always pursuing the truth. When we started this process, we took a journalistic approach. Are we saying something real? I really tried to figure out what was going on emotionally today, and how technology is affecting relationships. But interestingly, I found so much of the core things were exactly the same as my own coming-of-age experience.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly came back with a second draft and it was oceans away. I have never thought it possible that there could be that great a difference between a first and second draft because in that second draft, there was a voice, there was somebody who saw the world differently,\u201d says Brooks. \u201cWith every movie there is a constituency and that constituency knows whether or not you are telling the truth. There were people who talked differently and yet revealed themselves to be familiar people as they talked differently. The dialogue was brilliant, the story came together and it was daring and fresh. I was flap-jawed. From that point, Kelly was an extremely talented woman taking the express train to her destiny.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly was amazing during the whole development process,\u201d agrees Ansell. \u201cShe threw herself into it. She got into the pain and everything she found elevated the script from a very funny, sweet script into something that really hit you honestly. Kelly captures the voice of these kids, and got the emotions that I remember feeling back in high school, when there\u2019s inherently so much drama and so much that you learn about yourself. You have to go through the pain of finding out who you are, to come out the other end as a stronger person.\u201d \u201cYou are paying very righteous dues when you do research,\u201d adds Brooks. \u201cThe third time you hear something you think it\u2019s generally true. But also, meeting those kids, seeing those faces in your head\u2026 it creates something in you that wants to serve their truth. It\u2019s a small thing, but it makes a difference in creating characters that linger.\u201d \u201cIn my opinion, she wrote literature,\u201d Brooks furthers. \u201cA voice is an unusual thing in Hollywood, and for somebody to come along with an individual voice and get their movie made is a big deal. When there\u2019s a distinctive voice in a script, and it doesn\u2019t happen that often, it\u2019s great to show up. At 3:00 in the morning on a cold set, you have to know why you’re there.\u201d\n\nBrooks describes the story succinctly. \u201cAfter reading the first draft, there were some people who wanted to title the film Besties, and that first draft focused on a friendship between two girls. But now it\u2019s about a lot more than that. The friendship is still the catalyst for a lot of action, and the story is mainly about this central character Nadine, but there are a couple of people in this movie with secrets, which adds great tension.\u201d\n\nNadine and Krista are inseparable friends\u2026 until Nadine discovers Krista has quietly begun dating Nadine\u2019s older brother Darian. \u201cNadine\u2019s a girl who has always been on the outside, but she\u2019s had her one anchor, her best friend Krista,\u201d Ansell describes. \u201cBut it\u2019s that time to start growing and moving on and Krista\u2019s started to do that. Nadine comes to realize that a lot of what she thought about the people in her life is actually not true. She begins to see life through eyes other than her own. By the end of the movie, she starts to understand that people and life are more complicated.\u201d\n\nGracie Films\u2019 reputation for acclaimed and thoughtful material as well as their track record for mentoring fresh filmmakers made it the perfect home for Fremon Craig and her screenplay. \u201cI don\u2019t do this very often and when I do, the motivation is always the same\u2026 a writer with a real voice, and that writer will always play a continuing role with the movie. That\u2019s all we do with our little group,\u201d says Brooks. \u201cThe first writer we worked with was Cameron Crowe for a picture called Say Anything, and he ended up directing that project. With Wes Anderson on Bottle Rocket, we knew he was going to direct going in, and with Kelly we knew it going in. We knew this would be her film to direct.\u201d As with any first-time director, there were concerns. \u201cKelly is an Orange County girl, just a delightful human being and there was a moment when we worried whether she\u2019d be too nice for the job,\u201d laughs Brooks. \u201cBut she\u2019s a force of nature. I don\u2019t think she knew it was going to come to her like that. It\u2019s a passion project and something went off inside her. Two days in, we knew she was born for the job, which has been great to see.\u201d\n\nCo-Producer Amy Brooks adds, \u201cOne of Kelly\u2019s strengths is that she\u2019s always open, always learning and she can\u2019t get her fill. Even when filming, Kelly never stopped the research process. Kelly brings rawness and laughter, and I feel so lucky that I get to go to work and sit next to Kelly every day. She allows you to be yourself. That’s what the cast feels and I know that’s what the whole crew feels.\u201d\n\nThe dialogue in the movie is particularly raw, especially from the main character Nadine. \u201cWe might be the only R-rated movie that cheered when we were told that we could be an R. Not because we wanted to be a shocking R, but because to be an R meant letting everybody let it rip and be themselves. It wasn’t like we’re gunning for a certain rating, it was just about being real,\u201d says Amy Brooks. \u201cIt is rated R for reality. The film had to have the cadence and the heart and rhythm of how people really talk to each other. That was so important to Kelly. If you spend two seconds with Kelly, you see she goes for the truth all \n\nthe time.\u201d \u201cPlus every five pages there\u2019s a twist,\u201d adds Amy Brooks. \u201cWhen you started to think you’d figured out what this movie was about, there was a surprise. The story is familiar and comforting, like you want a movie to be, but full of surprises.\u201d\n\nThe film has themes that will resonate with all audiences. \u201cWhen times seem really down, you learn from it and go through it and become stronger,\u201d adds Ansell. \u201cIt\u2019s about how friendship can wax and wane and change. People change, a mother and daughter can come to understand each other a little bit more. Audiences will feel an affection for Nadine and what she\u2019s gone through in learning to understand herself, and come out ultimately feeling like this character\u2019s going to be okay.\u201d Amy Brooks adds, \u201cKelly really captured the comedy and sadness in how a family falls apart and comes together and falls apart and comes together while they’re grieving. She also captured that teacher that calls you out, that you hold onto for the rest of your life because that teacher got you as you\u2026saw you and celebrated that. I hope everyone feels \u2018I got this movie in a personal way and it’s mine. This movie was for me.\u2019 But this movie is for all of us.\u201d\n\n**ABOUT THE CASTING**\n\nProducer James L. Brooks, Blake Jenner, Haley Lu Richardson, Hailee Steinfeld, Director\/Writer\/Producer Kelly Fremon Craig, Kyra Sedgwick and Hayden Szeto seen at STX Entertainment \”The Edge of Seventeen\” Photo Call at Four Seasons Hotel – Almond Room on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Dan Steinberg\/Invision for STX Entertainment\/AP Images)\n\nThe heart of the story is 17-year old Nadine who feels she doesn\u2019t quite fit in. \u201cThe central character of THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN is somebody you\u2019ve never seen before, but the minute you see her you’re not going to forget her,\u201d states producer James L. Brooks.\n\nOscar\u00ae nominated Hailee Steinfeld is the center of an exceptionally strong cast with wide appeal. \u201cThis is a character-driven movie and finding Nadine was an incredible journey – very difficult and incredibly important,\u201d remembers producer Julie Ansell. \u201cWe must have seen over 1,000 girls \u2013 from knowns to unknowns. We read everybody and we weren\u2019t going to make the movie unless we found the right actress. Hailee walked in and that was that. Actually, every part was like that. It was very important to find the right people for every role, because the film is so performance-driven that without the right cast, you don\u2019t have a movie.\u201d\n\n\u201cCasting was enormously difficult across the board, because I wanted people that felt real,\u201d describes Fremon Craig. \u201cHailee is a wunderkind. She is staggering. I actually know that nobody else in the world could do this part, because the casting process was so enormous over so many months. Hailee walked in and she was just Nadine from top to bottom. She\u2019s so alive and follows every impulse. She gets this character deeply. It\u2019s electric. Directing \n\nher, I just wanted to get out of her way.\u201d \u201cHailee is a great young actress. This is the right role at the right time with the right actress. It takes so much for any movie to work,\u201d muses James Brooks, \u201cespecially a movie that has an original voice. The minute you’re original, you\u2019re in space\u2026 you\u2019re not quite on firm ground.\u201d\n\nBy her junior year, Nadine has not yet made peace with the one-two punch of simultaneously hitting puberty and losing her father four years before. \u201cAs well as being funny, Hailee brings an intelligence to Nadine. She can bring both strength and vulnerability, but at the same time you get a character who is really hurting,\u201d adds Ansell. Steinfeld comments, \u201cNadine is so smart, witty, quick, and feels everything. Most times when characters are hit with a curve ball, they try to cover it up or mask their emotions. But Nadine wears her feelings, her heart, and her everything on her sleeve. There\u2019s something so refreshing about seeing someone that feels so much. She\u2019s so desperate for any kind of human connection, it\u2019s amazing to watch her seek that with anyone she possibly can.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m 18-years old, so I know almost everything in a teenager\u2019s life is, in such a reasonable way, so blown out of proportion,\u201d says Steinfeld. \u201cEvery little thing that happens is such a huge event. Everything that happens to Nadine means so much. Everything matters. Everything is so deeply felt.\u201d\n\n\u201cI felt so connected to the core of the story because of how many characters that have something so relatable going on in their lives,\u201d reveals Steinfeld. \u201cThe script was true to a teenager\u2019s life in the 21st century. I personally have experienced so many of the things that Kelly wrote for this character and her writing is so honest and raw. It was a weird vulnerable state going in there admitting to Kelly the similarities to what my friends and I have really experienced.\u201d\n\nSteinfeld adds, \u201cReal conversations between kids in a high school hallway are not always appropriate. Kelly did an incredible job capturing that, but not making it more than what it is. The tone of the script has a perfect balance. Kelly made every single page so descriptive and so deep, yet focusing on the internal struggles of each character. I loved that the script goes so far into the details of this girl\u2019s world, covering everything from how she\u2019s feeling to what she\u2019s wearing.\u201d\n\nUp-and-coming actress Haley Lu Richardson was cast in the pivotal role as Nadine\u2019s inseparable best friend Krista who falls for Nadine\u2019s brother. \u201cKrista is a good person, a really sweet girl who wants the best for the people she loves and for herself,\u201d describes Richardson. \u201cI love her so much because she\u2019s maternal towards Nadine. I imagine her being raised really well, with good morals. She’s selfless and has always been there for Nadine. When she is confronted with the choice between doing something for herself and doing something for Nadine, it’s not easy for her to make the choice that fulfills her, but she\u2019s brave and she does it. Nadine and Krista met when they were very young so they are super comfortable with each other and feel safe together. Now that they are in high school, Nadine is still figuring her stuff out and Krista is her rock.\u201d\n\nFremon Craig adds, \u201cFinding an actress who could go toe-to-toe with Hailee Steinfeld was a serious search because she is so good. Hailee can run circles around most everybody. But Hailee and Haley Lu really had a great chemistry and felt like lifelong friends instantly. Haley Lu is also dead real. You don\u2019t see the acting. She\u2019s so absolutely inside the moment and so present. She\u2019s such a smart actress and incredibly self-aware when it comes to her own talent.\n\nShe knows the work that she has to do to get inside the role and she does it. She always shows up with a great attitude and delivers and it\u2019s 100% real. She feels like your friend and she\u2019s complicated and interesting. She brings so much truth to the role.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe relationship between Nadine and Krista is the ultimate best friend relationship,\u201d describes Steinfeld. \u201cIf they\u2019re not in the same room, they are likely texting or on the phone or on FaceTime. They\u2019re everything to each other, especially Krista to Nadine. Krista is every person in Nadine\u2019s life that she\u2019s ever wanted. Krista is always there for Nadine.\u201d\n\nRichardson connected with the onscreen friendship, \u201cThe script was very real, sweet but quirky and specific at the same time. I’ve held my friend’s hair before while she was vomiting. I know about those real moments, but it’s definitely not a stereotypical high school kid movie. It’s what you see in high school, the language you hear, and the stuff you go through during the emotional roller coaster years.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut the story is also not what you expect. The first time reading the script, I was thinking that there was going to be a moment where Krista decides not to pursue a relationship with Darian to placate Nadine, and she doesn’t do that,\u201d reveals Richardson. \u201cThat was cool because that\u2019s what would likely happen in real life. There’s not always necessarily a happy ending in the way \n\nyou expect. Most times you have to go through a struggle and separate from the comfortable to then find what is your next step.\u201d\n\n\u201cNadine feels her best friend is being taken away,\u201d explains Steinfeld. \u201cKrista is the only person that understands Nadine. She can get along with anybody, but Nadine\u2019s hard to read, and Krista\u2019s the only one that\u2019s ever given her that time and shown her affection. The moment she perceives that Krista is being taken away, it tears Nadine into a million pieces. Even though Krista is with her brother and wants so badly to make it work between all of them, Nadine sees it as her life coming to an end. Unfortunately, she feels her best friend is no longer hers.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe main goal Kelly and I had for Krista was not making her the villain that goes off with her best friend’s older brother and breaks her friend’s heart,\u201d adds Richardson. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to make her this girl that all of a sudden turns into a cool girl with everything she wants. It was important that being with Darian is the best thing in the world for her, but also the hardest decision she’s ever had to make because it’s breaking her best friend’s heart.\u201d\n\n\u201cAgain we had a large search for both of those roles,\u201d says Ansell. \u201cWe cast Blake Jenner as Darian fairly quickly. We thought the Krista part would be easier but it turned out to be very difficult. Luckily, Haley Lu came in pretty late in the process. At the beginning, you only see Darian through Nadine\u2019s eyes and they have a difficult relationship. At first, the audience won\u2019t realize he\u2019s actually the backbone of the family, who sacrifices for his mother and sister. One of the biggest things that Nadine starts to understand is her brother isn\u2019t who she thought he was, is actually this really quiet hero, and she learns to appreciate him.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe perception of Darian can easily be that he is Mr. Popular and he\u2019s got it all, a perfect life. But on the inside, he’s definitely broken,\u201d describes Jenner. \u201cHe’s been putting himself back together since he was 14. Once his family lost their father he dubbed himself the caretaker. Their mom couldn\u2019t cope and be the mother that they needed. He\u2019s always subdued his own emotions for the sake of his family. He\u2019s cut off the potential of his own life to be their Batman. There\u2019s more than meets the eye with him. There’s a lot of pain. His dad passed away at the prime time where most fathers and sons talk about the birds and the bees, and what it means to be a man. He has had to teach himself, so there are a lot of voids in Darian.\u201d\n\n\u201cI come from a big family, so I’ve always been a sucker for family-oriented films,\u201d adds Jenner. \u201cStories revolving around a family in turmoil always hit home for me. The second I read the script I was hooked because they are all living their own separate lives within this one world that they share. I was Darian growing up, except I was the youngest of four boys. But with my friends, I always felt some responsibility to them because I wanted to be a big brother. I tried to \n\nbe there for them, so I understand what it\u2019s like cutting off your own ability to feel for the needs of others. This movie is a lot like therapy for me.\u201d\n\nDirector Kelly Fremon Craig had Jenner write in a journal while prepping for the role. \u201cBlake is one of the most committed, researched, and hardworking actors I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cHis talent is extraordinary and he blew me away. The minute he came in, he had me crying.\n\n\u201cHe puts so much work and nuance into it. He was so game to really look at his character\u2019s back-story. Darian is a complicated character, because you think he\u2019s one type of guy at the onset, but then you find out there\u2019s a lot more underneath. Blake is so ridiculously handsome, but also a guy who\u2019s a million miles deep. He was just the perfect person to play Darian.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly\u2019s script is so youthful, timeless, and definitely not sanitized,\u201d comments Jenner. \u201cIt\u2019s a story about a family who lost their way a long time ago and with ebbs and flows, they find themselves again and reach peace. There are several different little movies within the movie. I love that Nadine is ballsy and not filtered. I know a lot of girls who are very forward with their language, so it\u2019s nice not to see a watered down version of a girl who has gone through a rough \n\ntime. The movie definitely does not shy away from the R-rated language. It sounds corny, but it\u2019s just life. It\u2019s not trying hard. These characters are who they are. They’re losing their temper and dropping F-bombs when it\u2019s warranted. \n\nThey’re crying and keeping to themselves and reaching out for a loved one when it\u2019s warranted. It\u2019s all real, which I like.\u201d The leading trio enjoyed the camaraderie on screen and off. \u201cBlake is a good guy and a really thoughtful, grounded, and wise actor,\u201d says Richardson. \u201cHailee was raised really well. She’s young but she’s got her stuff figured out. I like working with her. Sometimes it’s really hard to stay in an intense emotional scene because we’re singing a song from a YouTube video between takes. Like the scene in the fast food restaurant when Krista is telling Nadine that she wants to be with her brother Darian. Hailee was so in it, I was so in it, living and breathing the characters, and improvising back and forth.\u201d\n\nSteinfeld agrees, \u201cHaley Lu and I hit it off quickly, developing a natural banter between us. We picked up on each other\u2019s mannerisms, so we were able to bring those the little things that we each do to the screen.\u201d \u201cIn reality, I\u2019m very close with my family, so to play a character that feels \n\nso completely isolated has been really challenging,\u201d admits Steinfeld. \u201cSpecifically, it\u2019s been very hard to work with Blake because I really like him. We find so many things in the moment. He\u2019s such a great guy, but he is very good at playing the brother that Nadine doesn\u2019t like very much. Their relationship is so layered because Nadine thinks he has everything \u2013 looks, grades, and friends.\n\nEvery person he walks by shows him attention and love. Nadine walks down the hall and people snicker\u2026 and we\u2019re related!\u201d \u201cI love their relationship. It\u2019s a tug of war the entire time because they\u2019re speaking different languages,\u201d adds Jenner. \u201cHe’s setting aside his frustration, and she’s speaking freely about hers. My last audition was a chemistry read with Hailee, doing one of our heavy scenes, and she was just all there. She’s a great actress, who is willing to jump into the deep end and give it all she has. She\u2019s inspiring as this misunderstood character trying to find her way in the aftermath of tragedy. Nadine related to their father the most and when she lost him, she lost her light. She’s playing the victim because all she’s ever really known is being lost, so Darian has had to be the responsible one.\u201d\n\nVeteran actors Kyra Sedgwick and Woody Harrelson portray the key adults in the story \u2013 Nadine\u2019s mother and teacher. \u201cKyra is so wonderful because she\u2019s gifted at comedy but she\u2019s also a beautiful dramatic actress,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cKyra can be big and she can be small. She did a great job of capturing especially Mona\u2019s hidden vulnerabilities, those little moments where you have compassion for her. Even in the moments where she\u2019s not her best self, you can always feel for her character and know that there\u2019s a person inside, maybe missing the mark, but always trying really hard.\u201d\n\n\u201cI absolutely love Mona,\u201d states Sedgwick. \u201cPerhaps somebody will feel she’s not likeable, but to me, she’s someone who\u2019s just trying to do better. She’s now alone in the world, and is somebody who never really had a lot of tools to cope. She finds herself grasping. In the best of \n\ncircumstances, Mona would struggle with being a mom, but especially when her go-to guy isn’t there. Her son Darian reacts by being an uber-responsible parentlike child, which is its own version of hell. Nadine does the opposite – I can\u2019t please my mother so I’m going to act as terrible as possible. Nadine feels smarter than her mother, and both teens feel like they have to take care of themselves, they’re lost at sea without really having a parent who\u2019s fully present.\u201d \n\n\u201cIt’s pretty remarkable that Kelly was able to really show the hole that is left in this family in such a lean, brilliant way. The father is there for such a short amount of screen time, yet you completely understand the loss this family has felt,\u201d explains Sedgwick. \u201cThe script is very impressive, great writing with so many layers. It’s very special. I know how good a part this is. I’m really grateful to be able to be funny and be broken and fragile and sad as well\u2026 there’s not a lot of opportunities like that.\u201d\n\n\u201cKyra was always somebody that we had talked about for their mother. She\u2019s a gifted dramatic actress, and can be pissing funny,\u201d comments James Brooks. \u201cEarly in the movie, there’s a scene where Mona has to back up out of the car, her skirt’s hiked up, and she’s trying to get her kid, who doesn’t want to go to school, out of the back seat,\u201d describes Amy Brooks. \u201cKyra is so inherently funny and great at physical comedy. She’s classically funny, like Lucille Ball-funny.\u201d \n\nSedgwick comments, \u201cThat scene is right on the edge of farce, but it’s still real, devastating and hilarious. You fall in love with a character when you laugh at something that they do. You can take her to some harder places later because the audience fell in love with her vulnerability at that moment of just trying to hold it all together.\n\nAll really great humor comes from pain, and trying to put a game face on pain is funny. It’s hilarious because we relate so much. Kelly and I talked a lot about what it\u2019s like to be in Mona’s head and what she’s really struggling with and why Nadine is so triggering and difficult for her. Why it is that they really push each other’s buttons so intensely? Kelly recently had her first child so we talked a lot about how hard it is to be a mom. You want to do it perfectly but you just can’t, \n\nand you’re constantly reminded of that over and over again.\u201d\n\nSteinfeld enjoyed creating the strained mother-daughter dynamic with Sedgwick. \u201cKyra\u2019s a firecracker,\u201d states Steinfeld. \u201cNadine has a very interesting relationship with her mom because Nadine really feels like she is the parent. Nadine feels she doesn\u2019t need her approval. Even though she pretends she\u2019s got it under control, her mom is her mom, and she needs and wants her mom in her life. There are so many layers within that relationship so it has been fun to \n\nbring to life.\u201d\n\n\u201cHailee is really just a total natural, but also has a lot of complexity and depth to her,\u201d comments Sedgwick. \u201cShe’s curious and a wise soul, who is super bright, so those super smart things that Nadine says just roll right off her tongue as if they’re hers. Hailee is lovely, she’s doesn’t have an entitled bone in herbody which is surprising and wonderful.\u201d\n\nFilmmakers needed a powerful actor who could make an impact on a lead character with limited screen time and were thrilled to cast Oscar\u00ae nominated actor Woody Harrelson as Nadine\u2019s History teacher. \u201cWe needed a Mr. Bruner who could stand up to Nadine,\u201d says Ansell. \u201cThey have a fractious relationship, but at the same time the scenes between Woody and Hailee are hysterically funny.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere are maybe a handful of actors with the dexterity that Woody has – he is so ridiculously funny and then can break your heart in the next minute. He can\u2019t have a dishonest moment on screen,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cMr. Bruner needed the deadpan and the cool. I felt so enormously lucky to get Woody, and he just crushed it. What I love about Woody is he comes in with so many ideas, and some of his ideas are the best jokes in the movie.\u201d\n\n\u201cWoody and I are good friends. It was just the right thing that happened at the right time. He happened to be coming through Los Angeles, we met up, and the next morning he was able to meet Kelly. Woody really has the most crowded schedule a human being can have,\u201d laughs James Brooks, \u201cbut we were able to make it work.\u201d\n\n\u201cI was interested because my buddy Jim is producing it; and Kelly wrote an amazing script and when I met her I thought she was terrific. A high school gal in the middle of crisis is not a story I would necessarily see myself being involved in, but it\u2019s really wonderful writing. It\u2019s very funny, very smart, and also very unique, so I was psyched to jump in,\u201d comments Harrelson.\n\n\u201cMr. Bruner is one of these guys who is probably pretty good at his job, but he comes in, \n\npunches the clock, and looks forward to getting home to his girlfriend and his baby. In some ways, he\u2019s maybe not the model teacher. But he has a special relationship with Nadine in that he honestly likes her,\u201d adds Harrelson. \u201cNadine does not connect with anyone else in the school, but for some reason she connects with my character. He\u2019s certainly a sounding board for her and someone who she can come to for help. He\u2019s not the most sentimental guy, and \n\nyet it\u2019s obvious that he cares about her.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs I told Kelly, that scene where Nadine walks into his home, and sees the baby and the girlfriend, is so beautifully written that I cried,\u201d admits Harrelson. \u201cIt really touched me. In fact, that scene was another of the things that made me want to do the movie. The moment is a big surprise to Nadine because she thinks I\u2019m some lonely guy. It\u2019s cool when she and the audience see another world that they don\u2019t expect with Bruner.\u201d James Brooks reflects on their chemistry, \u201cIt just started happening, developed through the first day. It\u2019s nuts because a week and a half ago Woody was playing Lyndon Johnson and then he had to go to Europe for the opening of \n\nThe Hunger Games. Next he gets on a plane, travels 18 hours, the next morning he shows up and it just clicked in the first hour.\u201d \u201cWoody and Hailee are electric together,\u201d agrees Fremon Craig. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you could possibly plan or manufacture their chemistry, which happened \n\nalmost the minute they got in the room together. They bounce off each other, and trust their instincts and follow what would happen in the moment. They\u2019re fiery and every take was different and alive in its own way, with such vitality that you cannot take your eyes off either of them.\u201d\n\n\u201cNadine\u2019s stuff with Mr. Bruner is my favorite thing about this whole movie,\u201d says Steinfeld. \u201cReading those scenes for the first time, I remember thinking \u2018How the hell does Kelly come up with this stuff? It\u2019s so amazing!\u2019 Nadine is reaching for any reaction out of this guy. The great part about how it\u2019s written is he\u2019s there for her, but is so un-phased by any outrageous thing she has to say. That keeps her on her toes, and keeps her thinking of any possible thing she can say for shock value. One of the things I love so much about Nadine is that she doesn\u2019t hold back. She and Mr. Bruner have this real beautiful connection. He\u2019s a bit of a father figure for her. I\u2019m a huge fan of Woody Harrelson and those moments are some of my favorites.\u201d \u201cHailee is an extraordinary actress. In the first scene we did together, I was really amazed with how adept she is at flowing with everything and trying new things,\u201d says Harrelson. \u201cShe\u2019s a very creative and very smart actress\u2026really has the goods. She knows what she\u2019s doing and it\u2019s great to see someone with that ability at this early stage of her career. Jim and I both think that she has the potential to be acting for the next 60 years. She really is good.\u201d\n\nMaking his major motion picture debut, Hayden Szeto plays Erwin, a classmate awkwardly pining after Nadine. \u201cThe minute Hayden came in, we said \u2018lock it up\u2019,\u201d says James Brooks. \u201cWe didn\u2019t need to audition anyone else.\u201d \u201cWe actually cast Hayden before anybody else. Literally he was cast before we had money for the movie because we liked him so much,\u201d laughs Ansell. \u201cWe had thought Erwin was going to be the hardest one to cast. Erwin is attracted to Nadine and is very nervous, but he\u2019s also sweet and funny. We were worried about finding a strong young actor who could do all of that. Erwin really is one of the best parts of the script because here\u2019s this unlikely guy, who typically never ever gets the girl.\u201d Ansell adds, \u201cYou want him to get the girl. You want her to be with him. You really do root for him. Erwin appreciates Nadine in a way that no one else seems to and really gets her.\u201d\n\n\u201cHayden crushed his audition with his ability to improv, which is unparalleled,\u201d reveals Fremon Craig. \u201cHayden has a lightning fast mind. He is so funny and so quick. You\u2019re nailed to your seat watching them and you\u2019re just dying to see what he\u2019s going to do next. He\u2019s so loveable and you just adore him. Especially after we put him on a Ferris wheel when he\u2019s afraid of heights, and throw him in a pool when he can\u2019t swim.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou do root for the characters, because they\u2019re not plain archetypes, they\u2019re real people. That\u2019s the genius of Kelly. It\u2019s great writing,\u201d comments Szeto. \u201cTalking to your crush in high school, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen and these awkward moments are so honest. Kelly has a great eye for that. So many of the characters remind me of people in my life. There\u2019s no good \n\nor bad person in this. I was the Darian of my family and my sister always had a chip on her shoulder.\u201d Szeto adds, \u201cI\u2019ve also been Erwin. Every boy has been Erwin\u2026 that boy who is just trying to get through it, trying to be somebody, and trying to fit in.\n\nErwin had a real strength to him. I chose not to play the defeat of being the nerd. In real life, people don\u2019t want to fail. People want to win, and that\u2019s the angle that I came from with Erwin. He just wants to get the girl. Erwin\u2019s personality is a direct shield against any awkwardness because he\u2019s already very selfdeprecating.\n\nPart of his charm is his weak points are also his offense.\u201d \u201cI asked Kelly what inspired her to write the part of Erwin and she told me she went to a university with about 80% Asian-American students,\u201d shares Szeto. \u201cDuring her time there, she met some of the most charismatic, funniest, and talented people who didn\u2019t take themselves too seriously and she found such charm in that. This story is very grounded in truth and she feels that real life is very diverse and interracial couples are everywhere. It\u2019s not a thing.\u201d\n\nHailing from a family of Chinese artists, Szeto has dual Canadian and Hong Kong citizenship and lives in Los Angeles. \u201cFrom my own personal experience auditioning for American films, and even my mom asked why I didn\u2019t go back to Hong Kong or China to be an actor, because she commented that, \u2018they don\u2019t write any good parts for you.\u2019 The roles available are the nerd or the friend. But I felt that somebody has to stay here and inspire people to write those parts,\u201d says Szeto. \u201cTo complain doesn\u2019t get you anywhere, you\u2019ve just got to do the work. You\u2019re an artist.\n\nYou\u2019re not here to prove something, because art is not about doing something right, it\u2019s just about doing. My own culture is very calculated. Chinese culture is very meticulous, very safe, and they value stability. I\u2019m blessed to have this opportunity to be a storyteller in America and to play this part. I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more as an Asian-American artist.\u201d \u201cI parallel with Erwin quite a bit. It\u2019s quite a big part and sometimes I feel like I\u2019m the new guy, if you compare me to the seasoned cast. Hailee is a prodigy and the situation can be intimidating for me, just as Erwin\u2019s intimidated by Nadine. It works to my advantage. Hailee is a powerful, powerful actress, \n\nand sometimes I catch myself just watching her. She\u2019s overwhelmingly beautiful and not just on the outside, she has such a great soul. She\u2019s also a machine, managing her Twitter, her Instagram, and her Facebook\u2026 communicating with her fans in between takes. I\u2019m just trying to prepare,\u201d laughs Szeto. \u201cShe\u2019ll deliver in the scene and then be back on her phone. How does she do that?\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen we shot her reaction to watching my character\u2019s student film, there\u2019s no actual film being played on set, yet her eyes were glistening and her reactions were so genuinely real,\u201d remembers Szeto. \u201cI got emotional watching her performance on the monitors, afraid I was the only one being affected. But I looked over to James and Kelly, who were glued to the screen, and I\u2019ll never forget this because James whispered, \u2018Wow.\u2019\u201d\n\nTwo Canadian actors round out the cast: newcomer Alexander Calvert playing Nadine\u2019s crush Nick, and veteran Eric Keenleyside appearing briefly as Nadine\u2019s father Tom, whose untimely death kick starts the story. \u201cRight off bat the script sounded like how people actually talk in that weird unforgiving environment that is high school,\u201d comments Calvert. \u201cThe girls felt like real \n\ncharacters. I liked that Nadine really had a voice that sounded like how I felt at 17\u2026 a little \n\nbitter and a little upset. She’s really an outsider, who is forced to be alone, and has to \n\ndeal with herself. But Nadine starts to find herself, she just makes it through. That’s what \n\nhigh school is actually about: making it through.\u201d\n\n\u201cI’ve been shooting the TV show \u2018Arrow\u2019, playing a villain named Anarchy, simultaneously with this movie. It’s been very fun because I get to go from torturing families there and come here to hang out at high school again. One day I worked on both sets and ended up shooting for almost 24 hours straight. Good thing I’m young-ish,\u201d laughs Calvert.\n\nThe entire cast juggled very busy schedules to be a part of this special movie. \u201cBetween Alexander being on \u2018Arrow,\u2019 Blake going to \u2018Supergirl,\u2019 Hailee having a hit single and releasing an album, plus Woody opening Hunger Games and starting the next Planet of the Apes, our cast is constantly going in and out.\n\nBut when they come back to set, everyone feels like they are back home. We developed our bubble here with this blissful shoot. The only complaint I have is I so badly want to see everybody at once. Unfortunately, there’s not a scene in the movie where our entire cast is together, so a sequel would be worth it just for that reason alone,\u201d laughs Amy Brooks.\n\n\u201cKelly gave this great speech at the production meeting before we started filming,\u201d remembers James Brooks. \u201cShe sits down for the first time, as a director, with 50 people around this big octagon table, and she talked about wanting the film to be truthful and as honest as possible, and stating that everything about the production should be about supporting the actor\u2019s performances. You sit there in that moment thinking \u2018I\u2019m glad to be here.\u2019 It was the first day the crew was getting all together and to have somebody say that out loud was great.\u201d Ansell adds, \u201cKelly seems to be born to the job. Part of what we like to do at Gracie Films is work with new writer-directors with a really strong vision, like Kelly. Surrounding her with people who are very competent and know how to support her, she\u2019s just thrived. She has an innate ability for directing, and she knows what she wants.\u201d\n\nOne of the team supporting Kelly was legendary acting coach Larry Moss. \u201cLarry is an amazing acting teacher who Jim knows,\u201d explains Amy Brooks. \u201cKelly, Jim, Julie, and I sat in on one of his classes and we didn’t see an actor who didn’t cry. He’d do these tiny adjustments and their performance would change. We staggered out of his class having witnessed greatness. Larry has now become part of our family. Kelly welcomes everyone with a \u2018What do you have to give?\u2019 attitude. This is a party, just bring your favorite food. Kelly is pretty singular in not having an ego or vanity about \u2018This needs to be all mine.\u2019\n\nEvery character in this movie has a number of arcs, which are tough stuff to play, so Larry was a great resource for anyone who wanted it.\u201d \u201cWorking with Larry Moss has been a dream come true for me,\u201d shares Steinfeld. \u201cWhen I auditioned, Kelly and Jim asked if I was cool with working with Larry. They were all on the same page. I was able to build this foundation with \n\nLarry, and them come here to Vancouver and play with Kelly, knowing I was ready for anything she could throw at me.\u201d \u201cLarry opened my eyes to so many things going between the scenes and how to figure out what’s happened in between, which is something that you should subconsciously do as an actor,\u201d adds Richardson. \u201cThe first time I met Kelly was a hastily arranged meeting in LA when I was weighing whether or not to do the project, and we took a long walk,\u201d remembers Harrelson. \u201cI thought \u2018wow, this is a really incredible lady.\u2019 She\u2019s \n\nvery strong and funny, but you can never really tell how someone will be as a director because it\u2019s such a huge undertaking. Some people absolutely fall apart under the pressure. I was interested to see what would happen with Kelly once on set. Also, Jim told me that of all the directors working, only 1.8% are female, which is shocking. So I liked the aspect that this has a \n\nfemale director, and that she wrote it. When I came to Vancouver, I was really delighted because she\u2019s so smart on set and really knows how to talk to actors.\n\nShe articulates what she wants very well. She\u2019s very patient and decisive. She\u2019s getting the most bang for her buck and getting the most out of these scenes. And she doesn\u2019t really compromise. It\u2019s not like \u2018okay, well that\u2019s good enough. Let\u2019s move on.\u2019 She\u2019s going to make sure she gets the right take.\u201d\n\n\u201cKelly has been so helpful to me in building Nadine as a character through so many conversations, over many months now,\u201d says Steinfeld. \u201cYou can see in her eyes how passionate she is and where everything about this character comes from.\u201d Richardson agrees, \u201cKelly is very collaborative. She told me right off the bat, \u2018I want you to feel free with this character. I don’t want you to feel boxed in, I don’t want you to feel attached to the words,\u2019 which are amazing. I\u2019ve developed a trust with her. It’s a very simple story but the way it’s told is so \n\nspecial.\u201d\n\n\u201cEarly on before we started shooting, Kelly asked me to do a stream of consciousness exercise, writing from the character\u2019s perspective,\u201d recalls Jenner. \u201cI was improvising and not being filtered… getting to his state of mind – anger, happiness, whatever – just going with it and Kelly made no judgments. She was willing to have conversations no matter how long they ran.\u201d \n\n\u201cKelly wasn\u2019t telling me exactly what to do, but she was sending me in the right direction,\u201d adds Jenner. \u201cI totally feel we\u2019re being taken care of by an artist.\n\nShe lived and breathed these characters for so long. We\u2019re in amazing hands because she’s got blood in this. She’s owns it. It\u2019s inspiring to be on set having these conversations because they came from her heart. Every single word of this came from her. You definitely see the artist at work.\u201d\n\nPrior to the start of principal photography, the director led the cast through a period of intense rehearsal. Sedgwick enjoyed this, \u201cWe started with a really good improv with Hailee and I. Coming from theater, I love rehearsal and it was interesting to talk to Hailee about it because she’s not used to rehearsal.\u201d \n\n\u201cIt was great to also have James Brooks there \u2013 I\u2019m a big fan of that guy, he\u2019s an idol. He’s truly a god, really he is,\u201d laughs Sedgwick. \u201cBut what scares me about James Brooks is that the actors in his movies often do their very best work. It\u2019s a little scary asking yourself the question \u2018will this be my very best work?\u2019 There isn’t a false moment in any of his movies. He’s an icon, and his movies are unforgettable. They make a very deep and lasting impression, and they stand the test of time, which is so unusual.\u201d\n\nSedgwick continues, \u201cI asked Jim, how do you manage to get these incredible performances out of people? He said that it really starts by making sure that everybody in the cast and crew know that their paramount task is to create a safe place for the actors to do their best work, and that nothing’s more important than that. The shot’s not as important and the lighting’s not as \n\nimportant. After being on this set, I believe Kelly feels the exact same way. Each day lives or dies on the performances.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s so incredible to watch Jim process everything on set. Just when you think maybe he\u2019s not listening, he comes up with the most insane and relevant idea. He\u2019s so in tune and brilliant,\u201d comments Steinfeld. \u201cI actually met him when I was younger at The Simpsons Movie premiere because he knew my dad. I didn\u2019t see him again until I auditioned and now to be on a set with him is really surreal, to be on something that he is involved with is special.\u201d Richardson agrees, \u201cHe’s a big deal. Just about everything that man has touched has turned to gold. He’s a genius who created all of these iconic things, yet he\u2019s so friendly and sweet. But then all of a sudden, he laughs and has this crude humor that you wouldn’t expect. My mom’s pretty jealous that I’m doing this movie right now with him because Terms of Endearment is her favorite movie ever. The first time I met Jim, I came down from my hotel room to go to a wardrobe fitting and I was super nervous. I saw him in the lobby and he invited me to ride in his car. I thought \u2018you don\u2019t know how cool I feel right now.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen I came for the table read, I was looking at the name tags around the table, and I noticed James L. Brooks is going to be sitting right there!\u201d laughs Szeto. \u201cWhen Jim walked in, I wanted to go up and shake his hand. What an honor, I even had a speech prepared in my head. Then he said, \u2018you\u2019re funny, love your audition tape.\u2019 It was like Michael Jordan saying you\u2019ve got a nice jump shot.\u201d Szeto adds, \u201cJim has been a father figure to me throughout the whole production. I was definitely overwhelmed the first couple days on set, and he said something really profound. He and Kelly actually pulled me aside and he told me a lot of actors spend their whole lives looking for what he calls their mirror, who they really are. He and I felt that I\u2019d lost sight of that, of who Erwin was, and he pulled up my audition tape and showed me, \u2018this is your mirror.\u2019 It was a really touching moment. He told everybody to get out and Kelly asked, \u2018what do you need?\u2019 I needed space and time and they cleared the room for me. They told me to shut the door and take as long as I needed. I\u2019m so thankful to be working with these people that believe in me so much. It\u2019s incredible having somebody of that level being so patient with somebody so new. That talk with Jim and Kelly that day really sums up my whole experience on this project \n\nbecause I learned something great in that room.\u201d\n\nBrooks has a stellar track record of mentoring actors and filmmakers. \u201cI remember years ago, Jim was flying off a lot to Dallas, Texas,\u201d comments his friend Harrelson. \u201cI was wondering how good must this script be that he\u2019s trusting a first time director and all these basically first time actors, and putting all this effort into it? Of course it was Bottle Rocket, and it was Wes Anderson directing Owen and Luke Wilson. Jim has such wisdom and passion about material\u2026 it\u2019s hard to even imagine how much influence he has when he\u2019s mentoring someone.\u201d \n\n\u201cI hope that people watch this film and think \u2018I know that person, I am that person, I\u2019ve been there, and I\u2019ve felt that\u2019,\u201d comments Fremon Craig. \u201cI hope people see themselves reflected in it. That was my own experience writing it.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis movie fits into that genre of the classic John Hughes films and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but also I feel like this is breaking the mold,\u201d says Jenner. \u201cI haven’t read a movie that’s about coming into your own and finding yourself that has perfect balance between comedy and drama, but this makes you laugh and cry like you’re a baby.\u201d \u201cYou feel like you watched someone go through something, and really struggle to get there, but get there at the end,\u201d says Richardson. \u201cThe lesson is no matter how hard and intense something seems in the moment, \n\nyou’re going to get through it, learn from it, and end up being stronger.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen people come out of this movie, I really want them to know they can make it through. I wish more people had told me that high school will end,\u201d says Calvert. \u201cYou’ll get out. There is life beyond. If I could speak to anyone struggling in high school, I would tell them that it ends. Life gets more interesting as you age. You do not want to peak in high school.\u201d\n\n\u201cGrowing up watching movies, they\u2019ve always given me hope that no matter how bad problems get, you can solve them if you have the will to,\u201d shares Szeto. \u201cI hope this film draws attention to how fragile we all are and how, as human beings, our greatest asset is to be empathetic, which can also be our greatest downfall. Sometimes we overreact and it\u2019s okay to admit that.\u201d Steinfeld sums up, \u201cTHE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN is a story of a girl trying to find connection and contact with anything and anyone. 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