.sofiavassilieva plays Lara in AlaskaOnHulu. She talked to us about bringing LookingForAlaska from page to screen, The O.C., and the compliment johngreen paid her on set
MTV News: Are your parents a little disappointed you're not a scientist?Not at all. My parents were really amazing. They had me do everything. They came here with essentially nothing, but whatever financial means they had, they put them towards me. My dad put me in a lottery to get into a French school, and I got in. So I learned French. And then it was dance. Piano and sciences. They supported everything.
MTV News: And here you are! Did you have a relationship with John Green's source material before you started production?I didn't have a relationship to the material, at least in a formal way. I think I had a relationship with Lara that I very quickly discovered. I knew who John Green was, and I knew his books were made into movies. I have a friend who is a young-adult fiction writer, and he loves John Green.
I read the book in a perfect way; when I first got the job, I read the first few scripts and then I read the book — and this was all two days after booking the job. I knew what Josh and Stephanie [Savage, executive producer] were after, and then having read the book after that it felt like I was reading almost the same thing but there was more life that got to be explored in the show, by virtue of being a show. It didn't feel separate, it didn't feel like a retelling.
MTV News: I think all of the characters in this story feel very alone at some point, some show it differently than others. Alaska and Lara seem completely different on the outside — everyone is enamored by Alaska, and Lara tends to be more of a wallflower — but, internally, they both feel like outsiders.Had the world been a little different and had events worked out differently than they did on the show, I think Alaska and Lara would make really good friends.
is like a high-end version of that in a way. There were only eight episodes, so the story was told with so much care. All of our directors were from the indie film world. And each director treated their episode like its own precious gem and not in service of anything else, which you don't always get with 22 episodes. Everything was so detailed, from the books in her room to Culver Creek. They had 15 years to plan for it, and they did an amazing job.a bit different from other teen shows.
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