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For the part of Alice, the rather square nice-girl, publishing trainee, who didn’t fit in at Hampshire, Chloë Sevigny - famous for her role in the dark KIDS -- was not considered an obvious choice. The idea came from Chris Tellefsen, who edited METROPOLITAN and BARCELONA as well as Chloë’s KIDS and GUMMO and, knowing Chloë on screen and off, recommended her strongly. “When late in the casting process Chloë finally came in -- I think she had been away shooting PALMETTO -- we loved her instantly: Humorous, lots of quiet charm, extremely expressive voice and eyes,” Whit remembers. “Her previous films -- Steve Buscemi’s TREES LOUNGE and KIDS -- were rented and re-rented -- and we got to see her in an early screening of GUMMO.”
Chloë remembers: “The night before the audition I went out actually to disco, stayed out too late, and woke up in the morning thinking, I’m such a wreck I can’t even go in - I really love this script, but I’ll look like an idiot. Then I took a shower and felt much better… So I almost missed it. I was almost not in the movie.”
Having worked herself as a costume designer on GUMMO, Chloë had the markings of what independent films especially like in their casts: troupers. She had appeared in music videos for Sonic Youth and The Lemonheads, as well as, serving as the model for the Miu Miu clothing line’s spring campaign.
Chloë’s downtown identity was actually formed as a teenager on weekends, in from Connecticut (Darien), where she was raised until, still a teenager, she became a permanent crasher in New York. Most recently Chloë received positive notices for her stage debut in Rob Urbinati’s site-specific play, HAZELWOOD JR. HIGH, at IS 70 in lower Manhattan, in which she played a murderous Indiana school girl.
Chloë remembers: “The night before the audition I went out actually to disco, stayed out too late, and woke up in the morning thinking, I’m such a wreck I can’t even go in - I really love this script, but I’ll look like an idiot. Then I took a shower and felt much better… So I almost missed it. I was almost not in the movie.”
Having worked herself as a costume designer on GUMMO, Chloë had the markings of what independent films especially like in their casts: troupers. She had appeared in music videos for Sonic Youth and The Lemonheads, as well as, serving as the model for the Miu Miu clothing line’s spring campaign.
Chloë’s downtown identity was actually formed as a teenager on weekends, in from Connecticut (Darien), where she was raised until, still a teenager, she became a permanent crasher in New York. Most recently Chloë received positive notices for her stage debut in Rob Urbinati’s site-specific play, HAZELWOOD JR. HIGH, at IS 70 in lower Manhattan, in which she played a murderous Indiana school girl.
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