Amber Tamblyn’s
new film, Stephanie Daley,
about a small town teenager accused of murdering her newborn baby, is a pretty
hardcore drama, but that doesn’t mean that she and costar Tilda Swinton didn’t
find time for a little relaxation while filming in the tucked away regions of
upstate New York. “Tilda and I, because there was nothing to do up there, went
to
drove down there together a couple times and got lost. And we saw Grizzly Man
four times in the theater because we loved it so much. We were obsessed. We were even trying to compare
it in some way to Stephanie Daley,
and have those characters be other people. And you know Tilda — she was like,
‘I feel like I’m more of the bear
presence, let me explain why,’” says Tamblyn, affecting Swinton’s slight
patrician Scottish accent.
her costar as well. “Tilda and I still have a joke, actually,” she confides.
“The final climactic scene where we’re sitting in the office and she… gets me
to start talking about [my character’s delivery] and says, ‘Was it down in the
leg of your snow-pants?’ After a while — because we shot that stuff
consecutively, all of the things in the office, all within four days, and
back-to-back — we started to go a little crazy with the dialogue, and the
back-and-forth of it. The psychology is so thick that we started saying each
other’s lines. And then we’d be like, ‘Oh, shit!’ So every once in a while I’ll
get an email from Tilda and the subject title will be her line of dialogue, ‘And
then what happened?’ And I’ll write back, ‘I don’t remember.’ It just became
laughable…”