• • Interviews > DEVIN FARACI "CHUD" • •
Devin Faraci: Are you a horror movie fan?
Jodelle Ferland: Well, I do a lot of them!
Devin Faraci: That’s why I was asking. You’re in so many horror movies.
Jodelle Ferland: The ones I’ve been in or general?
Devin Faraci: In general.
Jodelle Ferland: It depends on the horror movie. I don’t like really, really scary ones. I do like being scared when it’s not too much. I like filming them too.
Devin Faraci: Is it different filming a scary movie than a regular movie?
Jodelle Ferland: It’s not really. The horror movies on are on much scarier sets and have make up and scary monsters. It’s not scary when you’re filming it.
Devin Faraci: So you don’t get scared on set?
Jodelle Ferland: No. Creeped out, but not actually scared.
Devin Faraci:I know some people who visited the set for Silent Hill and they said they were really creeped out by the nurses.
Jodelle Ferland: I only saw those in the preview. The only thing I saw was what they called the Grandchildren. I saw one of them. It was creepy.
Devin Faraci: Have you ever played the video game?
Jodelle Ferland: I played it once just for an hour, though, so I didn’t get into much scary things.
Devin Faraci: Are you a video game person?
Jodelle Ferland: Not really. I like video games, I just don’t play them often.
Devin Faraci: What kind of games in general do you play?
Jodelle Ferland: I guess I don’t really play very much games. [laughs] I don’t play games much.
Devin Faraci: What do you do on your downtime for fun?
Jodelle Ferland: I go swimming. And I read. Oh yeah, and I draw! I go bike riding. Those are some of my favorite things to do – but obviously I do more!
Devin Faraci: How did you get into acting in the first place?
Jodelle Ferland: I started when I was two. What happened is that I was two years old and my brother and sister used to act. They don’t anymore. They were practicing their monologues and I was beside them, I guess. I don’t remember. So a couple of days later it was just me and my mom home and I was upstairs and she was downstairs, and she heard someone talking. So she went upstairs and she saw me at the top and I was doing their monologues! [laughs] I was only two and I couldn’t read yet, so I was listening to them and I memorized it. My mom took me to the agency – I was already with the agency, but she asked that I do speaking roles, because I had just been doing little commercial stuff. And then when I was four, two years later, I did my first starring role in a movie, Mermaid. That’s how it started.
Devin Faraci: So your brother and sister stopped acting... do you think you’ll keep on acting as you grow up or do you plan to retire some day?
Jodelle Ferland: I really don’t know but I can’t think of any reason why I would stop.
Devin Faraci: You like it a lot?
Jodelle Ferland: Oh yeah! I can’t think of any reason why I would stop, so I probably won’t.
Devin Faraci: The studio sent me a press release saying that your poster is the most graffitied poster in New York City.
Jodelle Ferland: Yeah, it probably is because there’s no mouth and people like to draw mouths. I’ll go see if it’s true, because I’m going to the subway to see the poster. I’ll see if anyone drew any mustaches on it. If anyone did I’ll bring a skin colored marker and color over it! That probably wouldn’t work, though.
Devin Faraci: Do you find that poster creepy?
Jodelle Ferland: I was sort of surprised when I saw it at first. It’s not that creepy because it’s me, I know that it’s a photo that they made look like I have no mouth. I was a little creeped out at first because I never saw myself without a mouth.
Devin Faraci: That doesn’t happen in the movie?
Jodelle Ferland: No. Because the movie is called Silent Hill they wanted to make me look silent. But that doesn’t happen in the movie as far as I know.
Devin Faraci: Have you seen the movie yet?
Jodelle Ferland: No, I haven’t seen it yet.
Devin Faraci: I’m a big fan of Sean Bean – do you have a lot of scenes with him?
Jodelle Ferland: I have like two scenes with him. Because mostly I’m in Silent Hill and he’s looking for me and I’m running away. I have like three scenes with him. It’s not like Radha [Mitchell] because I worked with her the whole movie.
Devin Faraci: What was it like working with her?
Jodelle Ferland: She is definitely one of my favorite actresses I ever worked with.
Devin Faraci: What is it about her that’s so great?
Jodelle Ferland: How do I describe Radha? One of my favorite people to work with, but why? [laughs] Just because she’s special!