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__**Interview Models**__

1.    **In “In the Land of Women,” you are a painter, but what are your real-life hobbies?**  I read a lot of books, and I'm a writer. That's what I'm mainly into. I just love putting the words together. I'm really in love with words. I play guitar; I love going to shows. I'm kind of a homebody.

 **What is your favorite book?** I actually have two. I just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, which was really intense. The other is The Stranger by Albert Camus, that was heavy.  **You've worked with Jodie Foster and now Meg Ryan. How were those experiences?** So different. I was little when I worked with Jodie, so I wasn't taking notes. Just being around someone like that for months when you're so young and such a sponge ... she probably affected the way I work. Jodie doesn't take things too seriously, she just acts. I mean, of course, she thinks about it, but Meg takes things very seriously - in the best way. You can tell she really cares about her work a lot, and that's really important.

 **In terms of acting styles, was it very different working with Meg, Adam and Makenzie**  **Vega?** They were all so different. Working with Adam and Makenzie was a lot of fun, but my scenes with Meg were intense. There was a lot of tension between us, a lot of distance. I liked working with her; I felt we were both very satisfied with what came out. After a scene with Meg it was like, “Oh, we nailed it.”

 **What is your relationship with your mother like? Will your new movie** **help** **mothers and daughters better understand each other?** I'm really lucky, because I have a picture-perfect relationship with my parents. But I definitely see my friends in Lucy and her mom's relationship, I feel like that dynamic is very typical. This movie will open people's eyes.  **How do you choose roles?** It's always different. The movies I've been interested in have been because of the prospect of working with the filmmaker and a certain director. Sometimes I'll do a movie because there are one or two scenes I really want to do, something that's different. I think it's important to do movies that are worth watching, something that makes you think.

 **If you weren't acting, what would you do?** I would want to write screenplays. But, if I had to have a practical job, if acting fell through, I couldn't imagine working anywhere but on a movie set. I would want to work in props or the art department.

 **What advice would you give others interested in acting?** If there is anything you really want to do, you have to give it a shot. Otherwise you're going to hold onto it forever and just regret it. You should have no regret. 2.   **Demi Lovato** may have been knocked down, but over the past year, she built herself right back up. "I wasn't going to continue to be alive if I continued to treat my body the way I was," the 18-year-old said in an exclusive sit-down with E! News' **Ryan Seacrest**, discussing her decision to seek treatment last October for issues that included anorexia, bulimia and a tendency to self-mutilate by cutting. "It's a daily journey and it's definitely going to be a struggle that I'll have to deal with for the rest of my life," she admitted. "Sometimes I think, ‘Why couldn't I have been normal?' "  Luckily for her fans, however, Lovato isn't "normal." She's an on-the-rise star with a hit single and a brand-new music video (enjoying its world premiere today on //E! News// and E! Online) that literally mean the world to her. "I'm not going to be perfect, but...if I can make it through the day, that's all that matters," the former //Sonny With a Chance// star said confidently. Of her latest single "Skyscraper," in which she sings about being broken but coming back stronger than ever, Lovato revealed that she first recorded the song a year ago when her voice was weaker because she was "ruining it by damaging it after every meal," and then rerecorded it after undergoing treatment. But guess which version she went with! "It just didn't feel the same, so we kept the original one," Lovato said. "For me it was...so symbolic, it being the song I recorded before treatment and yet it was providing a message. It's so crazy the way things played out, that it ended up being my symbol and it represented what I'm trying to spread the word about—getting help and rising above any issues that [I and] my fans are dealing with." When she first sang it a year ago, Lovato said, she was "just pouring tears in the studio." "I was doubled over, just in pain. I remember thinking, This is kind of my cry for help back then, because I hadn't spoken to anyone about these issues and I hadn't gotten the help that I needed." The "Skyscraper" video features Lovato standing in the desert, dressed all in white, her makeup subtle and her feet mostly bare. The teen said that she wanted it to have an emotionally raw feel. "There were so many things that represented my addictions and eating disorders and self-harm," she explained. "When I'm unraveling this black fabric...It was the toxicity took over my mind for so long, that oozed out of every pore that I had because I was suffering inside...I'm taking it off and walking on broken glass and powering through it.  "That video was an emotional release for me, like therapy…I kept crying, I was so emotionally invested...That's when I realized, that's what music videos are all about."   Amen.    3.       Pop sensation Rihanna is speaking out about the night her then-boyfriendChris Brown beat her, saying it was "humiliating" and "traumatizing" to admit the assault took place and that it was "wrong" that she went back to Brown afterwards. "It was a wake-up call. It was a wake-up call for me. Big time," Rihanna told "Good Morning America" co-anchor Diane Sawyer in her first television interview discussing the assault. "I will say that to any young girl who is going through domestic violence, don't react off of love. F love. Come out of the situation and look at it in the third person and for what it really is." The pop star said it was "embarrassing" that Brown was the type of person she fell in love with. "So far in love. So unconditional that I went back. It's humiliating to say this happened. To accept that? It's a traumatizing experience," she said. Her decision to go back to Brown, she said, was a mistake. "I stayed. I even went back after he beat me, which was wrong," she said. "But again ... I'm a human being and people put me on a very unrealistic pedestal. And all these expectations, I'm not perfect." The 21-year-old star acknowledged that Brown held her in a headlock twice that night and bit her on the ear and fingers. She told Sawyer that she did not try to fight back. "I just wanted it to stop. I was not interested in hurting him back," she said. After months of silence since the February beating, Rihanna decided to speak publicly about the ordeal so she can be a voice to help others who may be in danger of returning to abuse. "It's completely normal to go back. It's not right. I learned the hard way, but again, this is what I want people to know," she said. "When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be held responsible for going back.       **Rihanna: Last Months 'Most Lonely Times,' 'No One Understands'**        "Even if Chris never hit me again, who is to say that their boyfriend won't? Who's to say that they won't kill these girls?" she said. "These are young girls and I just didn't realize how much of an impact I had on these girls' lives until that happened."       After a nine-month hiatus, Rihanna is back on the music scene with a new hit album, "Rated R," signaling a return from a time of intense loneliness following the assault.       "One of the most lonely times I've been was in the past few months because nobody understands what it's like," she said. "There are a lot of women who've experienced what I did, but not in the public. So it made it really difficult. I just felt like, 'Oh my God, here it goes, my little bit of privacy.'"       In August, Brown was sentenced to five years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling for assaulting the 21-year-old pop singer the night before the Grammy Awards.    Back To Main Page