It's got to be a lot of fun, though, too.

AH: It is, I had a great time. It was particularly amazing and I had a blast doing it. How could I not? There was a lot of physicality involved, which was fun, and the special effects that were done during production, and the blood and the mud, all that stuff's great.

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What do you think Mandy Lane's motivations are?

AH: She's a fictional character that encompasses and embodies - or represents, more - a bunch of real girls. Many, many real girls. Many real teenagers - high-schoolers - especially in America. There are a lot of incicdents of this kind of violence in school with the perpetrators being cute teenagers against their classmates. Their victims are their classmates and they're often their bullies. They're tired of everything that they've been given up until that point. In the first part of the movie she's a great representation of all those girls who are insecure and uncomfortable with their sexuality and their power and yet they're strangely intrigued by it and tempted by it.

And then she changes, and she develops and as we get to know her more we come to realise that she's a representation of this society that's very real, especially in America. She represents quite a bit of reality.



Are you worried that people will talk negatively about the movie in that context post-Columbine and similar incidents?

AH: I couldn't imagine why it'd be negatively talked about at all. Talking about the severity of the reality behind it, I don't think there's anything that could be more newsworthy or gossip-worthy than the actual reality. That in itself is pretty interesting and pretty horrible. Art imitates life; a movie is art and it's going to reflect life in a sense.

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What can you tell us about Pineapple Express?

AH: It's brilliant, it's everything you would expect out of a Judd Apatow comedy, but Seth is beyond what you'd expect. He's brilliant. It's very improvisational, very real, but very funny and I just love how they make things that wouldn't normally be funny, funny. Take two guys smoking pot, you know, normally it's not that funny, just how it is, but they take these normal things and they run with it and they do really funny things with it. They're really funny guys and they're hilarious.

How do you fit into the film?

AH: I play Seth Rogen's girlfriend. There weren't any real female characters written into this script other than myself and one other that I can remember and we both have smaller roles when compared to the boys, like many of Judd Apatow's movies. The women are not very important in the sense of things. I play his girlfriend, a slightly neurotic girl that he happens to be dating. You're wondering why, on both of our ends.

Seth is amazing. I had more fun on that set than I've ever had. Of course!