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Hollywood Move for Paquin
Anna Paquin, who turned 16 last month, is
determinedly pursuing her career in Hollywood.
The Oscar-winning actress has left her
Wellinton schooldays behind and plan to enrol
at a Los Angeles high school for the automn
school term.
She will be tutored on the set of her latest
film, She's All That, a romantic comedy.
Filming will begin soon on the Miramax film,
directed by Robert Iscove. In it, Paquin
palys the younger sister of Freddie Frinze,
a high school student who tries to turn
Rachel Leigh Cook into a prom queen.
Paquin, accompanied by her mother, went to
Los Angeles several weeks ago.
Her Los Angeles publicity agent has stressed
that Paquin is not deserting Wellington.
"She is just here to work, just as she has
done often enough before."
Meanwhile, Paquin had received favourable
comments for her last two films, HurlyBurly
and Over the Moon.
HurlyBurly, the film on the raunchy hit play
by David Rabe, is to be released in the
United States in December. Over the Moon, for
Dustin Hoffman's film company Punch Productions,
will screen across the United States in January
and there will be a simultaneous soundtrack
release.
Paquin's performance in Over the Moon has drawn
favourable comment from critics at test-screenings
and according to one Los Angeles commentator, she
is "amazing" in HurlyBurly. "People love her.
It's a tough movie but she's amazing. I think
it will help her career. People will start looking at
her less as a kid and more as an adult."
The New Zealand Press Association, August, ??, 1998
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