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“For me, the thing that makes the genre films I love the most the most effective is a kind of naturalism. It’s about taking an outrageous or fantastical idea and finding some way to ground it that feels real.
“With Chloë Moretz as Abby, the key was not to get her to play a vampire but to find some real world analogy. I found these photographs by Mary Ellen Mark—pictures of a homeless family in various places. It was a family of four and there was a daughter Abby’s age. Under this toughness there was this real brokenness. Here’s a girl who’s 12 years old, become a survivor. She’s seen things no 12-year-old should see and has become a fragile broken person. We use that to make Abby real and not ridiculous.”
