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Bella Thorne Feasts While Discussing Her Role in 'Big Sky' & Her Acting Method

Bella Thorne Feasts While Discussing Her Role in 'Big Sky' & Her Acting Method

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Warning: This interview might cause intense hunger! Our BFF Bella Thorne returns to the YH Studio to enjoy more room service and to catch us up on another one of her diverse roles, this time as a girl suffering from agoraphobia in the thriller 'Big Sky'. She tells us why this role has been her hardest to date, plus she shares with us her acting philosophy and method, and she reveals her dream role and dream supporting cast!

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Young Hollywood

Bella and I, we've hung out so many times. We're really comfortable with each other. We're so comfortable with each other. You know you're in a relationship when you just don't have to talk. Uh-huh. Isn't that the best? Uh-huh. We're just going to have a moment and eat.

Bella Thorne

Technically, your first instinct when you read something is the most natural and that will forever be the most natural thing you can do. Because I don't know what I'm going to say in five minutes from now. So if I already know what I'm going to say while you're talking to me, that is not real.

Young Hollywood

My favorite person is here. She's back baby. She is back. And you're not just my favorite person because I get to eat. You're the only person that we get to order room service for. I love it. Thank you so much, Bella, for coming in.

Bella Thorne

Thank you for having me. I'm so I literally walked in and I was like, oh my gosh, what is this gourmet feast? Is this all for me?

Young Hollywood

Well, you know, you've come to be that you know, you come in here so often, you have 100 million projects going on. So we want to make sure you're fed while you're doing press and doing all this. We got to take care of you. And the last time you were in here, not only did we feed you, but you were upset that you weren't on the Young Hollywood pillow. It's always a good day when Bella Thorne comes because I get food. You know what? It's always a bad day when you realize that you're not on the famous pillow. I'm a little offended. Bella came in and she's like, I'm a little offended. And she's like, Zendaya's on the pillow, I'm not on the pillow. You can't get one without the other. We'll just do one big Bella picture in the back, but that makeup.

Bella Thorne

I actually think that's a much better idea. I see I'm still not on there. I'm still upset about it.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. Well, we've we've done a little work. We've got a mock-up, but we just want to make sure that you're okay with it, because you, you know, you said you were going to send us pictures from your iPhone of your favorites. And you didn't. So we just sort of like went ahead and just did whatever. And, you know, this is how, you know, you're going to look. Anyway, that's picture one. There's another one back here. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's the one behind you here. So we're just what we're thinking is just having like Bella all over the couch.

Bella Thorne

I think honestly, the best way to do it is to like put it here like this and that like when you walk in, it should just it should just be like that. It should just be you. Yeah. No. And we should just get rid of that.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, I mean. Didn't you call Greg, your loved one um Harry Potter recently? Oh, yeah. Yeah, did you see those photos of him? He got this gun. Yes. Let's talk about that. How's Harry Potter?

Bella Thorne

He's good. I always tell him to wear his glasses, because I love the glasses, but usually he wears like contacts. I make him wear his glasses more. It's kind of like a sexy hot thing.

Young Hollywood

He's so cute. You guys are so cute. I've been following you guys. I feel like I spent this summer with you, Bella. Really do. Between the two of you. I love it. We're talking about this nation. I only think about the steps. Two males, two females. I need to know about the girl. She said agoraphobia. Going back to the van. No loose ends, right? So should we dig in and talk about Big Sky? Yes, okay. It's 10 in the morning, by the way. Yeah, it's like 10. But I mean, that obviously doesn't stop you. First of all, nobody is ever going to that's a lovely look. No one's ever going to pigeonhole you. Like you've played so many different roles in the last couple of years.

Bella Thorne

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Comedy like drama. This is thriller. I know you've got Amityville Horror coming out. How has this sort of been different than anything, you know, you've done to date?

Bella Thorne

Well, I've never played anyone with any type of like disease, so this is very, very different for me. Um It was interesting because it's very hard to play. To be honest, this is probably one of the hardest roles I've ever done.

Young Hollywood

Really?

Bella Thorne

Because there's not much written about it. So it's a problem when you're looking up, you know, stuff and I don't know anybody who's agoraphobic and usually you like pull from experiences or people you know, there and their experiences. And it was really hard to find anyone that would talk about it. So I went on YouTube. I tried to look up movies. The movies didn't really do a good job. And then I went on YouTube and the people and all the videos that have it were saying that the movies don't do a good job and that they don't like explain the disease well and it like, you know, it's basically they need someone to do it for them. Um and doctors don't really know what to say about it. They don't know how to help these people. And it's really scary living your whole life inside your, you know, just your room. So I want this movie to basically show people what it is and what it's like since it's so hard to understand. I hope we do a good job. I haven't seen it yet.

Young Hollywood

Really? You did a great job. Did you like it? But did it explain it well? I'm high five you, but I have greasy hands. It's okay. Boom. You have a bike? Let you get anywhere you got to go. It's okay, miss. The skies are friend. What's going on here? You've been working a ton. I mean, I know you've worked back to back to back, something like seven movies in the last year. You probably don't get a ton of time to prepare or research. I don't know how your preparation was, but it just seems to me, I'm going to give you some props here. You make it look so easy.

Bella Thorne

It was not easy.

Young Hollywood

No, you do. You make it look really easy. It was a is a really dark role. It was perfectly you played it perfectly. It wasn't like overplayed, it wasn't underplayed, it was just very real.

Bella Thorne

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

And so for you, like I said, going from different genre to genre to genre. How much time do you have and how do you sort of like quickly whip into it?

Bella Thorne

Yeah. Luckily, when you go to horror to horror, it's pretty easy. And if you go to horror to drama, it's also pretty easy because a lot of parts about horror are drama. So, that's what makes it simple.

Young Hollywood

But what about drama to horror or comedy to horror?

Bella Thorne

No, comedy. I just had a director's session for a film that I like, I'm so obsessed with and it's comedy. And honestly, it was hard to it was hard. I wanted it so bad and like I knew that I hadn't done comedy in a long time. So I like really, really studied it and I over rehearsed it and I knew that that was going to mess me up. It's hard. It's I thought it wouldn't be that hard. But it is. It's really hard to like, you know, do a year or two of drama and then be thrown into a comedy all of a sudden. Luckily, if the film was like dry humor, my humor is very dry, so it would have been easier for me, but it wasn't. It was like big funny humor like, you know, Adam Sandler type humor. And so that really made me mad. Really mad. Like the Hulk mad. And so yeah, it's hard. Uh I haven't done a comedy since The Duff. So, now I've only been doing dramas.

Young Hollywood

So, the whole thing about you said about like you can over rehearse. How do you know like that you over rehearse?

Bella Thorne

Yeah. It depends. Like, technically, your first instinct when you read something is the most natural and that will forever be the most natural thing you can do. Because I don't know what I'm going to say in five minutes from now. So if I already know what I'm going to say while you're talking to me, that is not real. Whether you know your lines or not, that's not real. And it like you know it it's not. So really to be like, you know, method acting, like technically the first time you read it and then like you should read it again, maybe three times. That's like your most natural and if you go over for me, personally, a lot of people work different ways and actors like write their lines instead of reading them off the script. People have different ways. That's my way is to read it like three times to go with my first instinct on it and to not mess with it. To let the director mess with it. Because if you go in with too hard of a head on what you want your character to look like, you have to realize that it's not only your character, it's the director's character and the writer's character. And they have probably a lot of different ideas of what they want to put in and make you, you know, this interesting character. And you have those discussions on set always. That's when really things go right because you really have to work together to get something good that everyone likes.

Young Hollywood

Here's a true too. Playing your mom is so such an incredible actress. One of the other themes of this movie is kind of like shedding your old self and becoming like a new person and confronting, you know, old things. Have you had that moment in your life? Have you had like a sort of like this is my former self and this is sort of like my new self?

Bella Thorne

I just I was I would think maybe through your career that might have happened going from like Yes, yes, but not like a you know, you wake up one day and you're a different person. It doesn't I think it doesn't happen like that. I mean, at least for me it didn't. For me, like I was growing up on Shake It Up and it's hard to grow up on a TV show in the spotlight, to be honest, when you're, you know, 13, 14, 15. Those are like the real important ages that everything leaves a mark on you forever. And so then I was like, you know, I was really trying to impress people and be well-liked and be very funny and like, you know, really good and work even harder than I should and, you know, really go for it, which is great. It's a great attitude to have. But then I realized that I was like too worried about being dressed a certain way for other people's image of what they wanted for me and, you know, everything else that everyone wanted. I was trying to be that. And then I realized that that it wasn't a good idea. It it shouldn't have been me and right when I got off the show, I think I kind of came into my own a bit more and I came into like my attitude and everything about me. I think I got right after I came off Shake It Up.

Young Hollywood

Okay. And last but not least, I know you love Christian Bale. We've talked about this. You've you've done so many different roles like I said in the last couple of years. Give me your dream role and dream lead actor that you're acting opposite. Just throw out a couple.

Bella Thorne

Okay. Dream role, a girl that is lost, that's a coming of age story. She's really lost herself. But she's sarcastic and very, you know, her dry humor is very funny and she's deep, she's harsh, I think in her opinions and she's very um she's very afraid to show people her real emotions. She doesn't let it out easy. And it should be like a drama. Funny drama. Um and lead actor. Okay. Somebody who play with my mom would be Julianne Moore. She's amazing.

Young Hollywood

Amazing. And oh yeah, she definitely like I can see that for sure.

Bella Thorne

My brother would be Cameron Monaghan. My love interest would be maybe maybe Nat Wolff or Jack Kilmer. And then my dad would be I don't have a dad. I don't have a dad. She lost her dad.

Young Hollywood

I'm going to cut that. I could be a cousin. Second cousin. And you with your Chanel bags. You're coming in there. I love it. Um always great to have you here.

Bella Thorne

Thank you for having me. I'm really excited. Now I'm going to stuff my face even more than I have on camera.

Young Hollywood

No, thank you for coming in because then, you know, I get fed. It's the only time I get fed at Young Hollywood. Otherwise, they just, you know, keep me on the couch and on a leash and I never get to leave, so it's great.

Bella Thorne

That sounds terrible.

Young Hollywood

Well, Bella and I, we've hung out so many times. We're really comfortable with each other. We're so comfortable with each other. You know you're in a relationship and you just don't have to talk.

Bella Thorne

Uh-huh.

Young Hollywood

Isn't that the best?

Bella Thorne

Uh-huh. We're just going to have a moment and eat. I'm just going to, you know, be like, just be. I wonder when we get started on that chocolate cake. Does anybody want some? You want to start? You want to start?

Young Hollywood

I do want some chocolate cake, although I don't really like chocolate, I will eat some today. You know, feel free that if you don't want that, I'll probably have your piece. You can have my pickles and I'll have your chocolate cake. So what do you think? Are you pretending to eat it?

Bella Thorne

It's good, but it's really it's going to be better with this raspberry.

Young Hollywood

What would you like next time, by the way?

Bella Thorne

Vanilla cake. Vanilla cake. These will not be paper. Thank you for making this happen for me.

Young Hollywood

Anytime, any any last requests?

Bella Thorne

This one, maybe. You show everybody else's face, but also have one of them like this. When people come in here like not just me like I'm going to go watch your guys' interviews. And you're going to make sure. And you call us out. Make sure that there's one of them at least. Okay. Cuz that's what you guys have done to me. You've embarrassed me that much by not putting me on the pillow originally that now I need my own one.

Young Hollywood

Listen, I'm going to make it happen for you.

Bella Thorne

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

I know I know you you dream about it every night.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Bella Thorne

    Main subject of the interview

  • Greg Sulkin

    Bella's loved one, mentioned as 'Harry Potter'

  • Zendaya

    Mentioned as being on the Young Hollywood pillow

  • Adam Sandler

    Mentioned for his type of humor

  • Christian Bale

    Bella's favorite actor

  • Julianne Moore

    Bella's dream actress to play her mom

  • Cameron Monaghan

    Bella's dream actor to play her brother

  • Nat Wolff

    Bella's dream actor for a love interest

  • Jack Kilmer

    Bella's dream actor for a love interest

FAQ

What is 'Big Sky' about?+
'Big Sky' is a thriller where Bella Thorne plays a girl suffering from agoraphobia.
Why was the role in 'Big Sky' difficult for Bella Thorne?+
Bella Thorne found the role difficult because there was not much written about agoraphobia, making it hard to research or draw from personal experiences.
What is Bella Thorne's acting method?+
Bella Thorne's acting method involves relying on her first instinct when reading a script, reading it about three times to stay natural and avoid over-rehearsing.
What is Bella Thorne's dream role?+
Bella Thorne's dream role is a coming-of-age story about a lost, sarcastic, deep, and harsh girl who is afraid to show her real emotions, in a funny drama.
Which actors would Bella Thorne like to work with in a dream cast?+
Bella Thorne's dream cast includes Julianne Moore as her mom, Cameron Monaghan as her brother, and either Nat Wolff or Jack Kilmer as her love interest.
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