The screenplay came to me as a rough draft and I thought it was so interesting what David Leslie Johnson had done. For Halloween, I have all these pictures of me dressed up. I’ve played Red Riding Hood I used Red Riding Hood costumes growing up. I’ve always created little worlds of my own like drawings, making little films and things. Q: Why were you interested in re-doing Red Riding Hood?Ĭ: Well, I’ve always loved fairy tales things with lets your imagination go kind of wild. I then had to go to Little, Brown and convince them. She went home that night and she and her assistants talked and they were like, ‘Why don’t we have Sarah try to write the novel?’ because I had won the creative writing prize at Columbia They just thought, ‘Why not give it a shot?’ They read a lot of my writing and they love it.

It was the last week of school and her sister was having an art show so Catherine was in town … We ran into each other. I’m kind of her little good luck charm in all of her movies … I was at Barnard College, which was my undergrad. I’ve actually been in every one of her movies I have little appearances. She’s been an amazing friend who has seen me throughout the ages. I have known Catherine since I was eleven. I actually have a very different ‘getting-started’ story. Q: How did you sign onto this project? Did you go through an agent? Did you get picked up by an editor? We caught up with director Catherine Hardwicke and author Sarah Blakley-Cartwright to find out a little more about the novel, the movie, and what’s next for both of them. The new film adaptation of Red Riding Hood opens today.

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