I say, “Look, the script is not where this ends. If I see something that’s morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won’t censor myself I always run towards the light. I don’t just mean the super-graphic stuff there are places of honesty for an actor, and some actors don’t want to go to those places, and that’s fine. In the beginning, you might be trying to talk someone into something … and personality-wise, maybe they’re never going to get there.
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What do you do to push the actors out of their comfort zones on a movie like this? Then Selena walked in and her mom was just like, “Hey, I love your movies! I grew up on your films.” It actually still blows my mind that her mom is younger than I am! Selena was my first casting choice for the girls and I just threw that out to the casting agents, and the next day they said, “She is going to fly in with her mom to audition for you at your house.” And I was like, “What?!” And I got nervous because I didn’t know anything about them personally and I figured they might be very religious because of the Disney affiliation and I didn’t want to scare them away, so I started flipping over a lot of artwork and photographs and things in my house that were maybe more graphic. Selena Gomez told me that her mom is a superfan of yours who was instrumental in making her do the role.
“In high school, everyone would jump in a car and drive from Nashville to Daytona Beach. “Growing up in Tennessee, spring break was just part of the culture,” he says. And though barely legal Florida debauchery may seem like an unlikely subject for Korine to tackle, it’s actually a key strand in his DNA.
Still, don’t get it twisted: This is still an utterly insane, psychedelic, art-movie fantasia. “I n the way that it was exciting for those stars to come to my side, it was exciting for me to go to that side as well,” confesses Korine, who’s made the most mainstream film of his career in Spring Breakers. Harmony Korine is best known as the director of resolutely uncommercial art flicks like Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Trash Humpers, but his oeuvre takes a seriously giddy turn with the colorful new babes-in-bikinis crime flick Spring Breakers, starring James Franco and Selena Gomez.
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