Alison Lohman
Alison Lohman Trivia
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Alison played a tortured young adult in the 2009 horror film Drag Me to Hell. When asked if she had nightmares after filming it, she admitted that for a while, she was so scared that she literally had to take shots of tequila to make herself fall asleep.
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Alison went to the audition for Matchstick Men dressed as and acting like a 14-year-old girl. Ridley Scott only realized her real age (22 years old) when she told him.
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More Appearances: Under the Blue Sky (2008) Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) Delivering Milo (2001) The Million Dollar Kid (2000) The Auteur Theory (1999)
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Awards: -Hollywood Film Festival (2003): won Supporting Actress of the Year. -Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (2003): Nominated PFCS Award Best Newcomer for: White Oleander. -ShoWest Convention, USA (2003): ShoWest Award Female Star of Tomorrow. -Young Hollywood Awards (2003): won Young Hollywood Award Superstar of Tomorrow.
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Before she was cast in Flicka, she had never ridden a horse.
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Alison was named as one of Esquire Magazine's "Women We Love".
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Alison is of Irish descent.
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Alison supports many charities which protect the environment.
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Michael Mayer, who directed the 2006 film Flicka, was impressed with Alison's work as the lead character, going on to say that she is "incapable of a false performance."
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Alison was 27 years old when the 2006 film "Flicka" was released, yet she played a 15-year-old (and pulled it off quite well). Furthermore, her on-screen parents--Tim McGraw and Maria Bello--are only 12 years older than her in real life!
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Alison had appeared in 12 productions by the age of 17.
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Since Alison had just shaved her head for a role as a cancer patient in Kevin Costner's Dragonfly (her scenes were cut), she was forced to wear wigs for her role in White Oleander.
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Alison studied acting, ballet and dance.
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Alison is a natural blonde.
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Alison: I've always wanted to be tall. In high school I'd wear longer pants and platform shoes. I have to wear heels so people don't see how short I am.
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Alison: I love to travel. The last place I went was Amsterdam. I love Amsterdam. There is great art and cafes and the people are cool. They seem so free to enjoy themselves and live uninhibited.
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Alison: I can cry on cue to get out of a traffic ticket. That's happened at least three times.
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Alison: Acting is a lot like con-artistry. People have to believe that you're the person you're pretending to be.
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Alison: I'm not going to be an 'it' girl, because I'm going to be doing this far too long for that label.
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Alison (about the importance of having co-stars) They're putting their energy into you.
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Alison: I think the best performance is one that doesn't have too much attention focused on it.
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Alison: I don't think a role could be too easy, I think I find everything I do hard.
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Alison: If something clashes with the animation, then the audience isn't going to get the full effect.
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Alison: You have cartoon animators that are creating the movements and gestures that [her character] makes. It's up to me to fit the sound to that.
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Alison (about Nicolas Cage) Nic is so spontaneous that he forces you to be as well. Because of that, your character takes on other dimensions that you hadn't previously worked on. That's the excitement of it, you want to be in that moment together.
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Alison: So much of the character is defined by the actions behind their words.
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Alison (about doing voice-over work) It's not like you're coming with...I mean, the body is not there! The movement and the gestures have already been created for you. You have to kind of match that.
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Alison: Somebody can be talking the talk, but it only means something if that comes through in the manner in which she says it.
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Alison: Sometimes that doesn't happen and you're forced to rely on what you worked on, on your own.
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Alison: So if you're doing a movie that has a good message, I think press is good, yeah.
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Alison: People are obsessed with people who are wealthy and beautiful.
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Alison: [Gossiping] has no meaning, no relevance to anything.
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Alison: In that situation, I think press is good.
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Alison: It's almost like we need to brainwash ourselves to listen to what's really happening.
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Alison (about partying with Tara Reid and Paris Hilton) That would be so boring. I wouldn't even want to have that kind of conversation.
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Alison: We shouldn't just listen to the propaganda and what the press shows us.
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Alison: God, it's so pertinent now. This movie focuses on what's happening with the pollution of the world and the need to understand the relationship between nature and humanity.
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Alison: Even though it was made twenty-one years ago, Nausicaa is still a great movie for anybody to see.
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Alison: It's [Nausicaa] got a great environmental message.
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