The athlete, the princess, the reb, the flake and the heartthrob — sound familiar?
While it may be redolent of the 1980s greco-Roman “The Breakfast Club,” for five Indiana teens, this was very much more than one Saturday detention. For 10 months during their final year in high school, movie maker Nanette Burstein and her crew followed Colin Clemens, Megan Krizmanich, Hannah Bailey, Jake Tusing and Mitch Reinholt, documenting every moment of their senior year and all the drama that came along with it for the picture “American Teen.”
“They sent out questionnaires to every single senior,” Clemens recalled, describing the selection process. “You filled it out, you turned it in, and if they thought you were interesting, they gave you a call.” From there, Burstein followed 10 to 15 people, including the 5 who made the final cut.
“We really didn’t know who all was organism filmed at the fourth dimension,” Reinholt aforementioned. “But she filmed us through commencement exercise, and we didn’t hear from her until right before Sundance in January when she invited us to go out to the festival. Paramount Vantage picked up the film, and we are outgo a summer promoting the movie, so it’s been pretty cool.”
Their sudden rise to fame certainly wasn’t anticipated, only don’t misapprehension them for your typical Hollywood actors. These stories are real and usher aspects of teen life that adolescents across America face on a regular basis.
Krizmanich, the daughter of a big local sawbones, finds herself in some tough situations in the film. “I get in trouble my senior class a lot, and it’s all captured on film,” said the popular pupil council frailty president, recalling her vandalizing incident. “I think everybody makes mistakes, but I made mine in front end of a camera that’s now being shared with thousands of people, so that’s my one regret.”
However, her delinquent behavior doesn’t come without a sympathetic backstory. “In the picture show, I’m the princess [and] a short bit of a bastardly girl,” she admitted. “But you realize that there’s a fate of pressure on me, and I’m not barely a tight girl for fun.” In addition to the building tension as she awaits an acceptance letter from the phratry alma mater, Notre Dame, she must also cope with her sister’s tragic suicide. “It had happened two long time beforehand, and Nanette had asked me to talk about it. About halfway through the interview, I asked to turn cancelled the camera. I couldn’t talk about it anymore.”
Reinholt, labeled the heartthrob, also has difficultness within his stereotyped function. “Obviously, my negative consequence would be breaking up with Hannah in a text message, which is definitely something I’m not proud of,” he responded when asked about end his relationship with the film’s artsy rebel. “My most vulgar question after screenings is ‘Why did you break up with Hannah?’ I admit to making a mistake, [merely] I think at the time, it seemed care an easy escape.”
Though they may have sometimes been immature in their actions, they’ve all done some growing up in the two long time since the documentary was filmed. Krizmanich and Reinholt now spend lots of time in the library as pre-med students (Megan at Notre Dame and Mitch at Indiana University), while Clemens, the designated jock, is continuing his basketball vocation. “I terminated up getting my eruditeness,” revealed the athlete, wHO spent his first two years at Indiana Tech and is now transferring to Indiana’s Manchester College. “I’m sledding to give a marketing degree. But after college is through, I’m going to go overseas to play some basketball and just pursue that as long as I can.”
Tusing, however, isn’t being the bookworm his geeky stereotype in the film would imply. He’s actually pickings some time off from college. “I think they call it a ‘radical sabbatical,’ ” he laughed. “I real wanted to use that term, so there it goes.”
Though they are thankful for the experience, the unlikely stars still find oneself it grueling to believe that their lives will be flowering in theaters nationwide starting Friday (July 25). “I think if you told us that the picture show would be as successful as it is right now, we probably would have laughed at you two years ago when the flick was organism filmed,” Krizmanich said.
Regardless of initial expectations, “American Teen” will certainly leave its mark as a real world look into the populace of teenagers, and the featured little Phoebe seem to be rather pleased with the last product. “I think we’re a perfect example [of overcoming stereotypes] now. The five of us ar best friends,” Krizmanich aforementioned with a smile. “The princess, the jock, the geek, the rebel and the heartthrob are all best friends.”
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