AND INTRODUCING: ELAINE CASSIDY
The Felicia's Journey star who lost her beloved nose jewellery for director Atom Egoyan....
by MONIKA MAURER
ANYONE TRYING TO equate Elaine Cassidy with the naive and innocent title character she plays in Felicia's Journey, Atom Egoyan's latest film, will have a hard time.
Felicia, according to the 19 year old Irish actress is "not very hip, not very trendy". Cassidy on the other hand, had to cancel a trip to Glastonbury to attend auditions and remove her nose stud for the part.
Although not her feature debut - her first role was in local Irish drama The Sun, The Moon and The Stars - Canadian autuer Egoyan's latest offering is likely to thrust her into the spotlight. In it, she plays a pregnant Irish teenager who come to England searching for the boyfriend who deserted her. Instead, she hooks up with mild-mannered Brummie psychopath Hilditch (Bob Hoskins).
Egoyan's last teenage protégé, Sarah Polley, became something of an indie movie icon, even making the cover of hip New York magazine Interview. Cassidy, though, is more ambivalent about the side effects of acting.
"I can't imagine being famous,"; she states, "and I don't want to be famous. That's kind of scary." For the elfin-featured actress, it's the work she gets off on, rather then the debauched lifestyle that her parents warned her against.
"If you do a really good scene, it's one of the best feelings - you're just buzzing after it. I don't need anything else. I have my own downer when I'm finished."
And the nose stud?
"I had it for three years. I think it's time to leave it out."
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