Jena Malone
Jena Malone
Jena Malone is an American actress and musician. She made her film debut in Bastard Out of Carolinaand has appeared in films including Ellen Foster, Contact, Stepmom, Donnie Darko, Saved!, Pride & Prejudice, Into the Wild, The Ruins, Sucker Punch, and The Hunger Games film series. Malone is also an experimental musician who has released music both under her own name and as The Shoe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 November 1984
CitySparks, NV
CountryUnited States of America
If they made 'Pride & Prejudice 2,' Lydia would become more of a tragic figure,
But Lydia is the type of girl who will make things happen. If she has to go live with her sister Lizzie and Darcy, she'll just show up on their doorstep. She's a feisty little monkey.
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
It wasn't worth sifting through such excessive b.s., ... I tried to fit in and put on makeup and pretty dresses, but I always felt like a weirdo.
I was 19, and I didn't feel I'd be able to be 15-year-old Lydia, ... But I found her through this very particular giggle. It just came from nowhere, and it took over.
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
I love talking about movies that mean something to me.
But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?
And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.
A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.
It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.