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"Some girls have all the luck. Some girls have all the pain. At 19, Morgan Saylor has enjoyed plenty of the former and displayed plenty of the latter. Best known for her unsettling portrayal of disaffected teen Dana Brody on *Homeland,* she stars this month in the indie film *Jamie Marks Is Dead,* a high-school romance with a dark, supernatural edge. Saylor is retro, but without affectation. She bakes, collects vinyl, and loads actual film in her camera. Kids these days.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n                   \\n\\n__What attracted you to this movie and this role?__ \\\"She's so confident. She's so cool. She's really weird and collects rocks, but she's sure of herself in these weird ways. And [director] Carter Smith. I'd seen his shorts *Bugcrush* and *Yearbook,* which I thought were so well done. He's very passionate, and he has a crazy-great mind for film and the look and the mood, being such an experienced photographer.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __You also just worked with Kevin Costner on *McFarland,* a high-school sports drama from Disney. I'm guessing \\\"moody\\\" is not the best adjective for this one. __ \\\"It's very, very different. Probably opposite. I play Kevin's daughter. She's 14 going on 15\\\\. She wears a lot of pink. It's a family film. It's fun and makes you smile.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __You may be the only 19-year-old New Yorker who cooks.__ \\\"For my eighteenth birthday, [*Homeland* costar] Morena Baccarin gave me *The New York Times Cookbook,* which is so thick and has everything you could ever imagine. I like to make pies. That's kind of my new obsession\u2014peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __What music do you listen to?__ \\\"I guess this is old-school. I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel. *Bookends* is my favorite album of all time [and] 'America' is my favorite song.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __You say you read on the train to and from your Brooklyn apartment. Current titles?__ \\\"In my backpack right now is *Frankenstein.* Classic.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __What do you think accounted for all the vitriol against your *Homeland* character?__ \\\"I think it's [because] she's a teenager, [and] teenagers are annoying. She's very angsty\u2026poor girl. It was also kind of a distraction from the main plot. Why do we have to watch it? Where's Brody? I think it's OK that people have opinions. It's healthy.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __What's on your agenda?__ \\\"I'm going to go to the University of Chicago. I've deferred. I took one gap year, and they have just approved a second deferral. Hopefully I'll be going next fall.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __So back to pies. Crisco or butter?__ \\\"I tried the Crisco, and I hated it. Hated it! I couldn't roll it out. I'm a butter girl for my piecrusts.\\\"\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __RELATED LINKS:__\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  \u2022 [*Allure Creative Director Paul Cavaco Receives the CFDA Media Award*](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2014/06/paul-cavaco-cfda-eugenia-sheppard-award.html)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  \u2022 [Zoe Kravitz on *Divergent, Dating, and More*](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2014/02/zoe-kravitz-on-divergent-and-dating.html)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  \u2022 [*Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer Talks Body Image and Sex Scenes*](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2013/08/game-of-thrones-natalie-dormer.html)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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