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Quote: "I always just assumed that I would be an actor, because I worshipped my grandmother growing up, and she had been an actor before she got married. Her first film was Gone with the Wind - a little more impressive than my first film role. So I pursued theatre in high school and loved it. And when I turned eighteen, I moved to L.A. and studied with Stella Adler at her conservatory in Hollywood. I was also lucky enough to have crashed an audition with a casting director that liked me enough to get me an interview with a wonderful agent. After I signed on with her, she sent me to a meeting with one of the top managers in Hollywood. I had an incredible team right off the bat - I was feeling that the whole world was open to me, and the sky was the limit. I felt like I was exactly where I was meant to be.
I remember the audition for Part VIII well. I met Rob Hedden and spoke for a moment about what they were looking for, and then read the audition scenes. After that, I literally had a 'scream test.' They asked me to scream several different ways on camera. I went all out and they seemed impressed with my vocal cords and my reading. I left there feeling pretty confident. And I had grown up watching the series, so when they called me to let me know that I had gotten the role, I was excited, even though honestly, it was not really the kind of film I had imagined doing when I moved to Hollywood. But I thought, 'Okay, not everybody gets to say that they killed Jason.'" - pg. 197, Crystal Lake Memories
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