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On Set: Red Riding Hood
Director Catherine Hardwicke takes us behind the scenes of her twisted fairy tale.
“SHE JUST LOOKS LIKE SHE’S OUT OF A FAIRY TALE, DOESN’T SHE?” says director Catherine Hardwicke of her star, Amanda Seyfried, on the Vancouver set of their new film, Red Riding Hood. In Hardwicke’s supernatural reimagining of the fable, out March 11, the embattled Red (aka Valerie) is caught up in a love triangle with her betrothed, Henry (Max Irons, Jeremy’s son), the scion of a wealthy family, and her purported soulmate, the brooding drifter Peter (Shiloh Fernandez). The big bad wolf has also been updated, taking the form of a werewolf that lurks in the woods by moonlight and walks undetected about town by day. However, the film’s central drama, says Hardwicke, is Valerie’s coming-of-age—a topic with which the director is intimately familiar, having helmed the first Twilight movie and 2003’s haunting Thirteen. “If you do the right thing all the time, you won’t learn,” she says. “That’s why characters in fairy tales do the wrong thing. Really, the moral is, Don’t listen to your parents.”
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