Mischa Barton St. Trinian’s Pic & Interview
Times Online has published a new photo (above) and interview with Mischa Barton re: St. Trinian’s. Here are some excerpts about Mischa from their article:
Barton plays J. J. French, a former head girl who has moved to the US and prospered in the media world, before returning to St Trinian’s to help the girls in their bid to save the school. “The idea is that J. J. went into PR and became very sassy and quite ruthless,” she says. “She gives the girls some advice, and it turns into a bit of a treatise on pop culture as she decides to teach them all the tricks of her business.
“It is supposed to be rife with funny clichés. I don’t want to give too much away, but let’s just say that it hones in on the superficiality of the business, and all the silliness. I was considering playing one of the main characters in the film. But it didn’t work out and Barnaby wrote the cameo for me,” Barton says.
“I was originally talking to Barnaby about playing Annabelle, the lead girl, but then this is a very English film,” adds the 21-year-old actress.
“My family’s English, I have seen the films, and I thought that they meant a lot to a lot of people, so it just seemed more appropriate to come in and do a cameo role, rather than play an established British character that people really love.”…
Did she have a St Trinian’s-style schooling? “When I was at school I wasn’t out all the time. Maybe I wasn’t quite head girl material, but I worked hard. Because I was working as an actress, there was always that sense of a normal schooling being taken away from you. Since then I’ve always kept things very focused on my family and my career.”…
She’s happy to deal with the media pressure. “You read about all these different guys that you are supposed to be dating, while really I’ve only had a couple of boyfriends in my entire life.”
Last year the gossip press tracked Barton’s romance with rocker Cisco Adler from the band Whitestarr. Before that she dated Brandon Davis, the oil heir and former MTV star. She will not be drawn on any current romances, but does admit that she is always “very careful”.
“I’m not one of those girls who likes bad boys who are going to treat them badly, and I’m also not sure about dating another actor. I can’t remember meeting any actor and thinking that I must get him to take an interest in me. I also have to spend far too long looking in the mirror, so it wouldn’t be a good idea to share my life with a man who has to care about his looks, too!”…
And she has a good idea what it is about the films that people like: “Looking at the older girls, they are really sexy,” she says smiling naughtily. “I was watching them strutting around, and we all know how boys feel about girls in school uniforms.”
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1 opinion for Mischa Barton St. Trinian’s Pic & Interview
Courtney
Dec 15, 2007 at 11:46 am
she looks really cute here i think.
:)
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