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Breaking the teenage mould
Dawson's Creek actress Katie Holmes comes into her own in Peter Hedges' Pieces of April
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-11-02
Renowned for her role as Joey in the hit television series Dawson's Creek, Katie Holmes is carefully rising to the top of Hollywood's A-list heap as one of the industry's young bucks to watch. With roles in such diverse pictures as Wonder Boys, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Go, Phone Booth and Abandon, the 25-year-old actress confirms that she's more than just a quirky face.
Holmes stretches her thespic abilities in writer Peter Hedges' (What's Eating Gilbert Grape) directorial debut Pieces of April. Shot on digital in 16 days on a miniscule budget (so small that it didn't allow for catering, trailers or even extras), the surprise success at the Sundance film festival stars Holmes as the title character who invites her family for Thanksgiving dinner, but she and her mother (Patricia Clarkson) rarely seem to get along. Not helping matters is the fact that her mother is dying of cancer. Oliver Platt stars as April's father, while Derek Luke plays April's boyfriend.
Tandem talked to Katie Holmes when she was in Toronto recently.
This film is a totally different spin for you.
"Yeah, it was nice to do something different from Dawson's Creek. When you play the same character for nine months out of the year, it gets kind of stale and you get very uncomfortable. So I think it's smart to try to find challenges outside of that and Pieces of April definitely provided a challenge for me that was very different was Dawson's Creek so I really enjoyed it."
Would you take another film role that resembles Joey or would you try to stay away from that?
"I did a movie this summer that was First Daughter, which was a little similar to Joey Potter, which was probably the character that's closest to her. But my main goal is to find good material and do movies that make people feel good or make people feel actually. So I just want to do a lot of different things, it's not really a conscious decision to depart from Joey or anything like that. I think you just have to try many different things."
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