Jennifer Carpenter Interview
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Meet Rising Star Jennifer Carpenter of QUARANTINE
JENNIFER CARPENTER stars in Quarantine as LA news reporter Angela Vidal. Audiences meet Angela as a perky, rookie reporter for a local television show, just beginning her career. As she goes through the Quarantine ordeal, Angela morphs from an optimist to a determined and brave then ultimately terrorized woman facing her own mortality.
Carpenter says it was difficult to portray such relentless fear. “The script asks you to go at 100 miles an hour from start to finish,” she says. “It’s important to maintain that fear, that idea you have 30 minutes, 20 minutes, maybe six minutes to live. It’s been exhausting.”
To keep up her intensity, Carpenter says she used different “silly tricks.” “Sometimes it’s playing music that gets me going,” she says, “or it’s screaming before a take, or giving myself a second to really let everything be real and settle in. Sometimes it’s as simple as saying ‘one, two, three – GO!’ and seeing what happens. But it was a challenge to keep up that pace, keep it authentic and rooted in something real.”
Discussing her work in the film, co-director John Dowdle says, “Jennifer’s just amazing. She stays in the zone all day long and really brings too much to every take. She comes up with wonderful ideas and is so wildly talented. There’s nothing she can’t do.”
The actress, a graduate of the Julliard School, currently stars in the groundbreaking, Emmy®-nominated series Dexter as Debra Morgan, the sister of forensic expert-cum-serial killer Dexter Morgan. This fall, she will also be seen with Charlize Theron and Woody Harrelson in Stuart Townsend’s Battle in Seattle. Previously, Carpenter played the title role in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which also featured Laura Linney and Tom Wilkenson, and in 2002 she played Mary Warren in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible on Broadway, with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
Quarantine is being released November 21st 2008 through Sony Pictures.
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