A true Southern belle, Carrie MacLemore was born in Mississippi and raised in Alabama, but now resides mostly in New York, where she twice moved to try her hand at acting. In charming, demure tones, she admits she escaped her homeland without an affinity for country music or NASCAR (“Which means I didn’t quite feel like I fit in when I was little”), and says she feels most Southern when she’s out of the South, and her accent helps render her a delightful curio. With but a few television credits to her name, MacLemore was hand-picked by director Whit Stillman for her film debut in his fourth feature film, Damsels in Distress. In the very mannered, quirky, college-set comedy, MacLemore plays Heather, a polite do-gooder who has some unique theories regarding the relationship between physical characteristics and human behavior. The day after her 25th birthday, I had a chance to sit down and talk with the recently married MacLemore about acting, her debutante past and what she wanted so badly that she was down on her knees for (get your mind out of the gutter). The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the full read.