Talking with Guiding Light's Susan & Lizzie
Dateline 06/16/00
Q&A Transcript w/ Guiding
Light’s Brittany Snow (Susan) and Hayden Panettiere
(Lizzie)
From April 2nd 2000
"Meet the Cast" Event
Barnes and Nobles Bookstore, Naples Florida
Sponsored by the Marco Island Film
Festival
Brittany: Questions, Complaints, Concerns?
Hayden: Complaints, I’m sure they have many.
Audience: Hayden how is it playing the Leukemia story lines? Is it
taking as much out of you as it is out of us?
Hayden: It’s kind of hard. I remember when Beth had just like recently
lost her mother and the whole thing was a little strong and that just made us
all go over the way with her. And we’d kinda …We would all just sit there
and cry, but that passed, now it’s ok and now my hair’s going to fall out.
Audience: Are they going to put a wig on you?
Hayden: I think so.
Audience: We are all crying for you, as Lizzie.
Audience: Is it really hard to cry on cue?
Brittany: No
Hayden: Oh yeah, we’re like masters at crying. They’ll ask us to cry and we’re “uhhhhhhhh”,
“Cut!”
Brittany: I think we work with such great people that they get us into the
scene like working with Kim Zimmer, Beth Ehlers, all the Beths. When they do a
scene, we just, working with Hayden
too, she’s awesome. Going into
that scene and being in that scene, and absorbing into that moment you just cry,
like thinking about what would really happen in that situation and the actors
and the fellow people that you work with, you don’t even have to think really
about anything and get into the scene and mediate like some people do. You just
get into it and luckily we work with awesome people.
Hayden: I remember when I had to do this one scene in the hospital, and my
mom had ran out in front of a car and she had gotten hit. I could not have done
anything. I remember I had not seen her, like in her makeup, how they did
anything. And I was just sitting there going how am I going to do this, I’m
not in the mood. They said Action! She came through the door and I was just
weeping. Just the sight of her being there, uhhm in blood, gushing out. Everyone
was in the moment and that really helped me and pulled me into the scene.