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"Sundance hit Toy's House may be a 'boys club' movie at first glance\u2014it stars buzzed-about young actors Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moises Arias\u2014but newcomer Erin Moriarty was the breakout girl in the film. We talked to the actress about how she snagged the coveted role and what it was like to film a movie in rural Ohio.\n\nWhere are you from?\n\n \"I'm from New York City. I was born and raised there, and I just moved to LA. I was in New York over the holidays for two months. It was really nice because I didn't see my family for a while and I always get really homesick from New York when I spend a lot of time away from it.\"\n\nYou filmed Toy's House in the woods in Ohio. How different was it from where you grew up?\n\n \"It was so different. It was almost like a foreign environment to me. I was playing this character that grew up in this suburban environment, which is the opposite of how I grew up. But it's funny, because I could still draw so many parallels from me to my character. Regardless of whether you grew up in New York City or you live in Beachwood, Ohio, when you're 14 years old and you're a young girl, you're going to go through the same type of things.\"\n\nHow did you get the part?\n\n \"I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it. The stakes were high because I was nervous. You know, I was really attached to the role and the script. And I went in, and met with Jordan\u2014the director\u2014and from there we did a chemistry read with the other boys so we could develop the dynamics and we could see what it was like between the three of us.\"\n\nYour character goes for an unlikely guy in the movie. How'd you feel about that?\n\n \"In the beginning, the film kind of tricks you because you see some chemistry between Joe [played by Robinson] and Kelly, and you kind of assume she's gonna go with him, the sweet guy who has loved her for so long. But that's why I thought it was very realistic, because if it had ended that way, it would have been expected. So the fact that it sort of took a turn and it was a surprise made it a bit more realistic.\"\n\nDid you just graduate?\n\n \"Yes, I just graduated high school and now I'm taking a gap year. I've deferred from college for a year. I did that for work purposes, so I could film and do a little bit more.\"\n\nAll of the actors are close in age to their characters. Do you think that makes a difference in the performances?\n\n \"Our director, Jordan, was very adamant about us being close to the age that these characters were because, you know, I was just 14. I remember what it was like. So, the performances I think are more genuine because he hired actors who were just 14.\"\n\nHave you stayed close with the cast? \n\n \"Yeah. It was hard not to, because it was an intimate filming process. We were working long hours every day and we were always in close proximity to each other, so we all became close. It was always kind of a boys' club because it was the three boys, plus all of the producers and the director\u2014they're all guys. It's fun to be part of it and to be one of the only girls involved. I think one of the funnest moments on set was when we went swimming. We were able to jump off those cliffs, and we went night swimming for like this very, very short moment in the movie. It was really fun.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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