Come with us.” Sounds an unlikely proposition.Admittedly, 18-year-old Star doesn’t have much choice in the way of business opportunities. “When they said they had one car available, I immediately went and got my bag out of the hold and let go of the flight. It doesn’t take Star long to decide that selling mag subscriptions with Jake and co is a better bet than looking after the kids – they seem to be her sister’s, though it’s not totally clear – and fending off the advances of an older man who may be her stepdad. Brian Tallerico | 2016-09-16 “We felt good. It was tough, I have to say. American Honey.
It’s just how I see the world.”Her films also share a strong sense of place, whether it’s the darkly lit Glasgow of “Oh yes,” she says, shaking her head. Filmmaker Andrea Arnold On 'American Honey' And Preserving Mystery In Film Arnold's latest film, which won the Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of … I needed to connect emotionally with it somehow and a road trip seemed the best way to do that.”That spur-of-the-moment expedition was the first of several extended American road trips over the following few years “through the south, up the middle, everywhere I could go”. I got in the car and decided to explore America a bit. She will provide a tantalising snippet of information, then steadfastly refuses to discuss it in any detail.Of working with the conundrum that is Shia LaBeouf, who sometimes threatens to destabilise the precarious chemistry of the He does, though, have a reputation for unpredictable behaviour.“A lot of that comes from a few incidents. “The travelling really reflects the lives of the actual mag crews and the time they spend on those buses. “It’s a business opportunity,” explains Jake (Shia LaBoeuf) to dreadlocked, wild-child Star (Sasha Lane). You don’t have to read the magazines, she tells a reluctant customer, "You can use them to wipe your ass.” She sabotages Jake's spiel and Krystal gets impatient. He has grown up as a celebrity with all that entails today and he has been challenging his place in all that, which I respect. Interviews Find Your Beauty: Sasha Lane on "American Honey" Nick Allen | 2016-10-04 An interview with actress Sasha Lane about making her screen debut in Andrea Arnold's "American Honey." I just can’t. “When we started improvising, I began slowly to feel comfortable. You almost want to jump aboard and start selling magazines.Get a weekly digest of our critical highlights in your inbox each Thursday!We found love in a hopeless place: newcomer Sasha Lane as StarArnold scouted for talent all over the States and found the mesmerising Lane walking on the beach in Florida during spring breakThe content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. The movie drifts on, a little too long, a little samey. “I met kids from mag crews,” says Arnold, who spent months recruiting unknowns for the film.
It’s about having nothing left to lose and accepting it.
I have a lot of love for people in their raw human form. It starts with myself emotionally and moves outwards. We got on so well, but sometimes I had to shout.”Members of her cast were more forthcoming in a recent American interview. I do make my films with a social eye. She shrugs.“I’m OK with that, but I don’t try and emulate anyone.
It’s not a huge thing, and I don’t want to ram it down people’s throats, but it’s there all the time in the way I feel and think.
There’s a huge struggle to it, not having a lot of money and not having a lot of support, but it’s what I grew up with.”“I did. “Are you prostitutes?” ask one of the oilmen. We sell magazines. Shia LaBeouf and Sasha Lane star in Andrea Arnold's drama about a troubled teen who finds her feet among a group of travelling magazine subscription salespeople. Sometimes, when we were travelling there might not be a scene written but we would film them anyway.”It turns out that there had been even more on-the-road scenes in an earlier cut, but Arnold was persuaded to excise them as the film nudged the three-hour timespan. It was the beginning, too, of a creative journey that has led to her latest film, It is the first film Arnold has made in America: gone are the sink housing estates, tower blocks and claustrophobic interiors of “America is a vast and complicated place filled with all kinds of truths and contradictions and I wanted to find my own emotional connection to it,” she says. It was integral to me. We found love in a hopeless place: newcomer Sasha Lane as Star
You come from my kind of background, it’s the America you see every day.”Lane grew up in a working-class family in rural Texas – “we didn’t view Hollywood as very respectable” – and was working in a Mexican chain restaurant in San Francisco for $7 an hour during her college breaks before she landed her role. Their lives are kind of beautiful and hard. He loved it.”It is Sasha Lane’s Star, though, who is the most magnetic presence in the film, from the moment we see her scavenging in a supermarket bin for discarded food to the final symbolic scene in which she appears to gain a degree of hard-earned self-awareness. A few more free spirits would make life more interesting.”Why, though, did she choose him rather than another unknown? “I can’t argue with that.”How does she feel about being linked to the older generation of socially conscious film-makers? Krystal decides that an oil field will yield rich pickings and drops off some skimpily clad girls there.
In the first scene, she’s dumpster-diving with two little kids outside that Walmart. “Really, I didn’t know anything about acting, so I was surprised and a bit wary,” says Lane now.
“I think the temperature has gone up since we were there, but you could feel something in the air then.
They don’t let fear get in the way.”At times, though, Star’s storyline seems almost incidental to the film, so central is the road-trip element. 163 mins Recent Releases. "It’s all fun,” says Jake, but it isn’t really, and there’s an air of cruelty, as well as desperation, that lurks beneath the partying. “I didn’t set out to make a long film, but that’s what happened. Each night, there’s dancing to rap music round a fire, and often fireworks, but mysteriously no motel worker calls the police. “We’re sales associates. Her face is an index of her internal state, which fluctuates from Zen acceptance to reckless impulsiveness. “I get that a lot but I let it wash over me now.