Tara Lynne Barr Talks About God Bless America Breakout Role

Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest movie, the satirical, gleefully deranged God Bless America, centers on an unlikely pair of spree killers. Joel Murray plays Frank, a depressed, middle-aged office drone who’s diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. When Frank sets out to off some of the stupidest, cruelest and most repellent members of society, he comes across Roxy, a 16-year-old high school girl who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement. The role of Roxy is a star-making turn for 18-year-old Orange County native Tara Lynne Barr, and not merely for all its foul-mouthed gun waving. Like Ellen Page’s breakthrough in Juno, it’s a performance that hinges largely on the loquaciousness of its young actress. I had a chance to speak to the wonderfully sweet Barr one-on-one recently, about the movie, auditioning and exactly who can get the middle finger. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so please click here for the read.

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