• • What They Said • •
A collection of quotes various people have made about Jodelle.
ELLEN RAINE-SCOTT
[Director of "Swimming Lessons"]
Ferland actually kind of depresses me; I feel like an underachiever by comparison.
RADHA MITCHELL
[Co-Star 'Rose Da Silva' In "Silent Hill"]
"Yeah, she's such a phenomenal actress, that was quite an easy thing to do. She just sort of stepped into that devil character without any coaching from anyone, this weird head motion and strange way of speaking. All of that was her invention, no one told her how to do that. So that was kind of freaky! For that reason, it was great working with her because she was compelling and always believable. But even when she wasn’t being that way, I was very protective of her around the set because she's just this small creature y'know and it felt very natural to be doing that."
CHRISTOPHE GANS
[Director of "Silent Hill"]
I knew that she had a wonderful schizophrenic quality, that she could play different characters in a similar way. I realized Jodelle was perfect for the part.
JACK CRIDDLE
Jodelle Ferland [the little girl from Silent Hill] gives what is surely one of the greatest child performances of all time as Jeliza-Rose, an innocent whose imagination and goodwill keeps her afloat on a sea of darkness.
ROLO TOMASI
[Review on "Tideland"]
Jodelle Ferland - wow. Gilliam has always had a great eye for casting child actors. Ferland has an altogether different challenge of holding the camera all by herself, sometimes carrying on 3 or 4 or 5 way conversations with her doll heads. If the wrong child had been cast, this film would have been dead before it even began shooting. Ferland's face is beautifully expressive, she has a gifted voice [Born and raised in Vancouver, she adopted a Texas accent for her character, and uses fake accents for her dolls, giving each one unique life, but voiced as a child would do it], she handles the physicality of the role as well, running through endless fields of wheat. She also shows Jeliza-Rose to have a wisdom that is beyond her years, although not a precociousness. It's expressed through her borderline romantic relationship with Dickens. Their friendship is sweet and innocent, but more than a little disturbing, being between an 20-something man-child, and a 9-year old girl. She is arguably the adult in this relationship. Ferland handles all this heavy stuff perfectly.