“[Ezra] instantly bonded with Emma. I think he just took it upon himself to become her big brother, in a sense, to become her protector. I’ll never forget how close they were when they were doing the film.”
PaperMag.com: This Is Not a Story About a Wallflower – August 2012
“I don’t think there will be one teenager who will watch this and not have one story or one moment that they don’t deeply feel they can relate to.”
MTV News – August 18, 2012
“This has been a really great choice for Emma, and the role couldn’t be more perfect for her. It’s different than ‘Harry Potter.’ She’s showing everyone in the world that she’s got a different side of her and that she’s not just this one character. She’s kicking butt and taking names.”
MTV News – August 18, 2012
“She’s a brilliant actress, and this is a great debut for her outside the ‘Harry Potter’ series.”
MTV News – August 18, 2012
“Ezra and I are not trained dancers, but we both love dance. I feel like I’ve been waiting for ‘Perks.’ I was waiting for this story, this script, this moment. I was a huge ‘Harry Potter’ fan even before I did the movies, and I thought I would never find a character or material I care about so deeply and personally as I did that, and then this came along and completely swept it all.”
MTV News – August 18, 2012
“Sam’s style is very interesting. There’s a couple of looks that have been interesting for me to wear, because they’re very all-American. I’m like, ‘Wow, if my friends could see me now.’”
Hollywood.com – August 17, 2012
“The cool thing about Sam is that she walks that line between a little bit rocky, but then also she is kind of like a bit preppy and she also is kind of like humorous with her style a little bit as well and she kind of does a little bit of everything, she’s quite eclectic. That was one of Steve’s first notes, he’s like, ‘she has great style, great attitude, great taste.’ So, I mean no pressure, when I walked into costume I was like alright guys this has got to be amazing. A lot of the clothes actually are my clothes that I brought in so I’m actually wearing one of my grandmother’s dresses, which I got altered from like the 80s and I don’t know it’s interesting. I think Sam’s style is interesting.”
JustJared – August 17, 2012
“The shooting schedule’s been kind of crazy and it’s such a great group of people and we’ve all got so close that we mainly just hang out at the Crowne Plaza [the hotel the cast and crew stayed in during the shoot]. I’m serious. And we play music and pretty much everyone as part of the cast is musically talented in some way so we spend most of our evenings playing music and just talking and just being silly.”
JustJared – August 17, 2012
“I worked with a dialect coach before the movie. I’d rather give a really good performance — obviously I’m hoping that my accent is going to be perfect — but I kind of didn’t want that to take over too much. My other castmates have been incredibly supportive; if I ever need to check anything, I’m just like, ‘Say this,’ and then they’ll say it and I’ll be like, ‘OK, thanks,’ and that will be it. So, it’s been easy.”
Buzz Sugar – August 17, 2012
“You know, I had a philosophy, we all had a philosophy, which is, don’t just cast actors, cast people. So what happened was, everybody basically auditioned and so what you looked for was not just the individual performances, but how they would fit together. And one of the great joys has been watching this fictional group of friends, over the summer at the [hotel] become a really tight family of friends. All of them: Emma, Ezra, Logan, Nina, really across the board. It was just an instinctive thing and how we felt people would fit together. And we have an amazing cast. I mean, across the board, like, there is not a weak link. Not a single one.”
NovelNovice.com – August 17, 2012