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Ryan Kiera Armstrongbrings the heat in her latest movie — but not so much on the ping-pong table, she’ll admit.
“Of course I was a fan beforehand,” she says. “The first time I really met him, he actually came over to my house and we played a round of ping-pong, which I lost poorly!”
Armstrong says Efron was “there for me for any questions I had.” She adds, “It was really fun. We got to explore the characters a lot together, and it turned out very well.”
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To build her formidableFirestartercharacter, Armstrong says she found a way to include one of her real-life passions within several scenes.
“When I’m not working, I love drawing, which is something that I incorporated to Charlie. I was just studying how to draw eyes, like really realistic eyes, so when I discussed this with [director] Keith Thomas, I told him, ‘Hey, I love drawing.’ He was like, ‘You know what? We can incorporate those in the movie.’ In my bedroom in a few scenes, there are actually drawings across the wall, and most of those drawings are my drawings. It was really fun to do that. I’ve never done that before.”
TheAnne with an Ealum recently appeared in another spooky role onAmerican Horror Story: Double Feature, and she’s done parts in genre movies likeIt Chapter TwoandThe Tomorrow War. As she puts it, horror seems have so far “followed” her in her budding career.
Ryan Kiera Armstrong inFirestarter.Ken Woroner/Universal Pictures
“I love horror, even though I have a hard time watching it. I love making it. Can’t watch it, but I love it,” she says with a laugh, adding that she’d definitely be down to return for more fire-starting: “At the end of the movie, there is really no clear answer of where the movie’s going. There’s a huge cliffhanger. I had multiple talks with Keith about what will happen in the future for Charlie. I’m really curious. I would love to do another.”
Firestarteris in theaters and streaming exclusively on Peacock Friday.
source: people.com
