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(To both) How were you at Nikki’s age? HARDWICKE: We were little angels!! Well, I think I was more like the girl in the movie who has the Chihuahua on the T-shirt, trying to get in, trying to be cool but not quite there. When did you have your years of rebellion? HARDWICKE: I used to live on a farm with my family in South Texas. My dad was a farmer and he was quite wild. When we got newspapers and there was, for example a picture of a punk, my dad would be the first one to try to dress up like him! He encouraged us to be like him. HUNTER: I was actually quite involved in music and theatre. I used to play in a band, doing plays so I was always busy practising. Every day I had 6 hours of extra school activities .I was deeply engaged! I don’t think I was much of a rebel, but also all my energies were put into these activities. HARDWICKE: I think this is what is missing now in our schools in Los Angeles. There are reducing art to zero. I wanted to do a scene in a music class and then I realized that there are no music classes anymore and it’s kind of shocking. I think this is the reason why our kids can’t find anything to be excited anymore. (To Holly) Did you have any sympathy for Nikki as a thirteen year-old? Would you like to be thirteen again because of the pressure they have to go through now? HUNTER: Yes I would! I think that the trappings are different but the things are the same. I think my more experimental years happened later, it didn’t happen when I was thirteen. (To Catherine) This is a movie about women and I believe you used a lot of women behind the cameras too. Was it is apolitical or creative decision? Also will you carry on directing and encouraging other women? HARDWICKE: Yes, yes, no and yes! (Laughs) I think that naturally more women were more close to this material. Question number two? Oh yes! I will certainly try to carry on directing. I have always tried between other movies to get my chance, writing my scripts, taking lessons. Now I hope I’ve got my chance, I am working on several other things. (To Catherine) Are they only women’s story? HARDWICKE: Some of them are, some of them have ….men in it! (To Holly) We haven’t see you in movies for some time now. Were you busy doing other things and what are your next projects? HUNTER: I actually act more than you probably see. (Laughs) I did a couple of movies that were only on cable and I had a movie out just before THIRTEEN called LEVITY which I loved very much but it didn’t do well at the box office. And then I do stage. (To Holly) Would you love to come here in London to do stage and did you receive any proposals? HUNTER: I am actually discussing something right now but I cannot say anything at the moment. (To Catherine) I thought it was quite ironic and sad that this movie won’t be seen by kids in this country because of the 18 Certificate it has been given… HARDWICKE: I am quite surprise that THIRTEEN has a more restricted view here than in the States. In the USA you can see it if you are thirteen or eleven if you are accompanied by an adult. Our rating system is quite strange. If you say the F-word twice you get an ‘R’ which means the view is restricted to teenagers accompanied by an adult, but if you kill any number of people…that’s ok! I hope that with the DVD it will be seen more. It has been used in school already in the USA for educational purposes. Thirteen - movie information PHASE9 movie review Q&A with Catherine Hardwicke and Holly Hunter PHASE9 Photo Gallery - Thirteen Back to movie interviews

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