'Forensic Files' is big in our house.
India Eisley
When I was very small, I was obsessed with 'Sybil' and Sally Field's performance in 'Sybil.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, I want to do that!'
It's a tad embarrassing, but there's this show called 'The Dead Files' on the Travel Channel, and I'm completely obsessed with it!
Because I'm quite small and young looking, anyway, I tend to play younger than I am.
If you don't look after yourself, no one else will.
I was born in L.A.
Bullying has been around since humans have been around, I think. I think it is wrong.
I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.
For a lot of people, and I'm one of them, where you are and who you're spending your time with greatly impacts your accent.
I always enjoy fight scenes and being grubby and bloody and not having to look good. I prefer that very much, as odd as that sounds.
I prefer film. I think it moves slower, it gives you a chance to kind of get a feel for things. Sometimes TV moves so fast that you don't even remember what you've done.
When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.
You can run into people, and they can be someone you thought you were never going to hear from again or never gonna talk to again, and they end up becoming dear friends.
Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.
I was a real weird kid.
Obviously, just on a visual level, as an actor, when you put on wardrobe and you look in the mirror, you're like, 'Oh, my God. This is great.' It instantly changes your posture and how you feel, and it does affect the performance as well.
A lot of the time with jobs that I've booked, immediately I'll read the breakdown, or I'll read the script, and I'm like, 'Oh I'd love to do this, but I'm completely wrong for it,' and they tend to be the jobs that I book.
I initially was very drawn to playing a split personality. I've always wanted to do that kind of role.
I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.
I'm open to anything, really. I love work.
If I hadn't become an actress, I would be a dancer.
It's a big responsibility, I think, when you play somebody who has existed but also somebody who has just recently passed away.
I've always been a fan of investigation shows.
As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.
When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.
I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.
When I'm working, especially when the role is very intense or very demanding, I actually tend to relax just innately afterwards because work relaxes me more than anything.
I can sing if I have to.
I used to lock myself in my room and memorize scenes from films and reenact them when I was alone.
It's just not interesting to play happy people.
There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.
As a painfully shy kid, my fun time was locking myself away and watching movie after movie after movie. Watching a good performance, to me, was like getting a new toy.
