Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry Talk with SBS About Vampire Academy
The stars of Vampire Academy, Zoey Deutch and Aussie Lucy Fry, talk about the whirlwind ride after being cast in the book-turned-film.
Before Australian Lucy Fry was cast in Vampire Academy, she had just been backpacking around Europe.
She's since been travelling for different reasons - filming the adaptation of Richelle Mead's 2007 bestseller in the UK, meeting fans across the US and most recently, getting the word out about the film in Australia.
Only now, is the Brisbane-born actress, who started out on Aussie TV series Lightning Point, getting used to the wild ride.
"It's been very surreal for me," she says.
"Really exciting and I feel like only now I'm settling into it and feeling more comfortable with everything. At first, I was just in a constant state of weird shock."
Fry was the final person to audition for the part of Lissa Dragomir, a teenage peaceful Moroi vampire, who's dragged back to the academy with her best friend Rose years after escaping. Although they're told otherwise, strange occurrences make them believe there are bigger threats inside the school walls than out.
The fiery Rose is a type of half-human, half-vampire guardian known as Dhampir, tasked with protecting Lissa (who she has a special connection with) from deadly, immortal vampires called Strigoi.
Zoey Deutch, who plays Rose, admits she is very similar to her character, although she can't read Fry's mind, like Rose can.
Well actually, she can.
"I can't go into your mind with actual important things, but like stupid things, literal things, like she's hungry or she wants this to eat, or she needs to go outside, I can tell those things," Deutch says.
Neither of the two had read the Vampire Academy book - the first in a six-part series - but launched into reading it once they were cast.
However for Deutch, once filming began, there was no time for page-turning anything but the script.
"During the film, I had absolutely no time to even sleep or eat or take a bath," she says.
Aside from being in most scenes during the shoot, in the lead-up to filming, she underwent three months of gym, krav maga, jujitsu and kickboxing to prepare for her physically demanding part.
"The latter (kickboxing) being my favourite, cause they would put pictures of people I hated on the punching bag and I would do what I had to do to them to get through the session," she says.
Since filming wrapped, Deutch and Fry have had more contact with the massive fanbase for Vampire Academy (more than three quarters of a million copies have been sold in Australia), at book signings and film events.
Deutch says without the fans, the film wouldn't exist. However she didn't let the pressure of living up to their expectations get to her while filming.
"We're only human and to put that kind of pressure on yourself is debilitating," she says.
"(But) it's awesome to have these fans that will probably be with us for the rest of our career.
"They're die-hard and passionate and that's such an amazing thing to get from a project."
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