But Brooklynn Prince could care less.
Im glad that you mentioned [that]!
She turns to her mom, who says Helen Mirren.
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Oh, Helen Mirren!
I got to meet Elle Fanning.
Everyone else, it seems, wants to meet her.
My first word was, Hi, so I will talk to any stranger, Prince says.
This is scary to my mom because I will talk to any people and make friends.
We grouped them together for the audition… … She was almost taking command of the room, which was very interesting.
Prince got her first gig at the age of 2 with a modeling shoot forParentingmagazine.
I wasnt really in love with it because that wasnt really a commercial, she says.
But after that I got my first commercial and after that I was like, Woohoo!
Lets do more!'
(Spitting onto the windshield of a neighbors car is the tamest of her on-screen shenanigans.)
So she took some tips fromThe Descendants, the Disney Channel original movie about the children of Disney villains.
I wasnt like, Yeesh!
I was like, Okay, I can do this for the sake of acting.'
When it came to anything involving food, though, Baker milked the shots for all their worth.
She loves food, the filmmaker notes of Prince.
Sealing Princes breakout status were the final moments of the film.
Princes grandmother accompanied her the day of the shoot, about a week and a half into production.
What impressed him most was how she arrived already with the mindset that this was scripted for tears.
And Brooklynn was so funny.
She said, Valeria, Im gonna have to focus right now.
Im gonna have to bring tears and I have to go and concentrate.
It was very interesting.
About 20 crew members rushed to comfort Prince after she delivered the scene in one take.
Baker filmed an additional wide shot that he says didnt make it into the final cut.
But I set up this other shot and I yelled action.
The next thing you know shes doing it again, she was doing it again.
So it was really incredible to see that she was just able to keep going to that place.
But Prince is already thinking further ahead.
I would love to play Figment.
