A: Well it’s a fairly long story but I‘ll give you the condensed version. I got into acting back home in Washington state in the theatre. I ended up coming down to go to school at USC and studied theatre and opera there. It didn’t last so I dropped out of there. I spent a year and a half working at Disneyland as one of the characters, Belle from “Beauty and the Beast.” And then realized “I really should be doing something with acting…I’m here in L.A. I should do it.” So at the point I started the process of trying to get an agent and eventually had to leave Disneyland because my schedules were overlapping too much with auditions I had coming in. From there, it’s been kind of like a stepladder with representation changes and projects leading up to bigger projects to bigger projects, to bigger projects. And here I am after all that and it’s a good place to be.

          A: Ok, well I play Jennifer Hills. I’m a novelist and I rented a cabin out in the boonies to work on my next novel. I run into some of the locals, who have a distaste for what they think are stuck-up city people. They end up with their own personal vendetta against me. They break into my cabin and have their way with me and torture and rape me. And there’s a bit of that and enough to make you squirmish. I surprise everyone (laughs) in coming back, and capturing them all. I torture them like they tortured me, except much, much worse. Then offing them all. I come out triumphant.

          A: Well I just, well the main thing is that I want everyone to give it a full chance. It’s definitely not for the weak of heart. But it’s got a huge, huge payoff at the end, if you make it through the movie. I don’t want to hear from anyone who leaves early. Don’t even talk to me if you don’t like the film if you left early. It’s all about the payoff. That’s really important.

          A: Yeah, well it was really difficult when I went into revenge mode. There are a couple of reasons. One, being that I became friends with the guys over the course of the shoot and I know they were feeling really uncomfortable, and I started to feel sorry for them, at which point I had to step back and say “No” and get myself back in that zone. I actually was pretty surprised with the anger I was able to pull out. Cute little Sarah… And it was also hard because there was a lot of special effects makeup, prosthetics, things to deal with during those scenes. The tortures and kills. It was a lot to think about. I had to control those scenes…I had the majority if not all the dialogue and I had to be working with these sometimes uncooperative pieces of special effects. It was kinda difficult but it was a challenge, a welcome challenge.

          A: We actually did have a breakthrough day…up to that point, we had been shooting all day: me at the cabin, me jogging through the woods, me at my computer. Then all of a sudden we shoot the first day of them attacking me. It was a night shoot, it started at 6pm. We were all anxious at how it was gonna go. It was incredible how everything took form and took over. The whole thing was out of control but in the best way. We all got completely lost in it. For me it was terrifying. For the guys, it was like a “pack mentality.” They were circling me and I think they got lost in it too. It was pretty awful. There were a few times where I had to just cry it out after they yelled “cut.” And just collect myself because it was so terrible. Then when we got done with that day and then it was 6am when we wrapped. We went back to the hotel and they were serving continental breakfast, and we all sat down and started eating eggs and we just realized the shoot was really, really good. Oh my gosh it was amazing and we knew we can created something that was so uncomfortable and terrible but it was exactly what we were going for. We were proud and we were excited to be shooting the rest of this film and knew we had the capability of going to such a dark place.

          A: There’s been a couple of short films. Little comedies, couple webisodes. I did a couple episodes of CSI, CSI Miami and CSI New York and I got blown up both time. I’m very explodable. I did a feature length film for the Sci-Fi network about 3 years ago, called “Flu Bird Horror” which is “quality.” (Laughs) It’s a good laugh.

          A: Oh My god, I can’t believe you’ve seen that. Oh wow, wow. Yeah that was kinda funny but it was only 3 years ago, but it was more than half my career ago. So watching it I feel so young. I look at myself and I think “I’m such a baby…I didn’t even know what I was doing.” I hate myself a little bit in that film. (laughs) But it’s cool to look back and see that only 3 years have gone by and I am so proud of this movie that I’ve just done I feel like I’ve gone so far.

          A: There are so many, so many. I’d be remiss in naming anyone. There’s so many. So many, so many I’d want to work with. Ok, I’ll name the most obvious one, Steven Spielberg. There’s something that’s so wholesome, there’s something that reminds me of my childhood…it takes me back to fun and imagination. And that’s why I admire what he does. And obviously I’d love to work with him.

          A: If you want to get know me on a more personal level, I’m a “homebody.” I guess you could call me a “beachbum” too. I like hanging out by the water. I’m a mean boogie-border. My favorite things to do are to just hang out with friends, eat dinner together. Have some drinks at home, enjoy the beautiful view I have from my house. Enjoy this moment I have in my life.

          A: Does “Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” count? I just rented that a bit ago. I was doing research for a role and I was looking at that actress and I was really impressed and I really liked it. It had the vibe of a “Silence of the Lambs” which I really love.” Psychological thrillers are my favorite type of scary movie. I don’t watch a ton of scary movies, I’m kinda a wuss. If I see 2 CSI”S in a row, I won’t sleep that night. So I shy away from them but amongst scary movies, that’s my favorite genre. I was really impressed with that film and I’m really excited to see what they do with new film, starring Daniel Craig.