As Wendy, Trachtenberg plays the anchor to Neil's character, the one person in the world he fully trusts. Trachtenberg discusses this relationship: "Neil and Wendy are very, very close. She's the only one that knows all of his secrets. She is really just his cornerstone, his rock. She's everything to him and that is very special to me. It was sort of just miraculous kismet that Joe and I just got along so famously. Actually everyone, I mean, the first group of interviews this morning when we first saw each other, it's like genuine, 'Hey, how are you?' We're all running over to leap and hug and everything. It's really hard to find that on a set where every single person just likes seeing the other every day."...
Trachtenberg has had her share of kid-friendly roles herself, but she just laughs at those responses. "In Sundance we were doing a Q & A and someone asked, 'Well, you know this is a departure from 3rd Rock and Harriet the Spy, huh?' It was just like, 'Well yeah.' For me Harriet the Spy was ten years ago, for Joe I think 3rd Rock was probably around the same time, maybe a little less, by like a year or something. I think because we've all been acting for so long, we each have a respect of the material and the project and there's a professionalism there so we all knew we had 20 days or, like, I don't know, 21 or something days to shoot the movie and we all had to be on our game constantly every second because you never know what could happen. We didn't have the luxury of having, you know, a bunch of takes because we couldn't afford the film, so I think just the fact that all four of us had so much experience beforehand really helped the movie."
"I loved the script," Trachtenberg gushes. "I had been looking at independent scripts for a long time. I had been offered some really cool roles, but just nothing that I ever connected with. And then Mysterious Skin came along and I was actually filming in Prague, a big studio movie. I thought, well, this is such a sweet way to sort of slide into the world. It's very shocking but it just read so well and it felt so beautiful just on the page, so I thought, 'Well, this must be some great effort,' so I immediately wanted to do it. So I just thought, 'Why the hell not?'
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