Alana Haim Talks 'Licorice Pizza' & Reflects on Her 'Deeply Intense' First Love
justjared.comAlana Haim is getting candid about her career and personal life. The 30-year-old Licorice Pizza star covered the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar, where she discussed what it was like working with director Paul Thomas Anderson and shared what she’s looking for in a partner. Click inside to read what Alana shared… On how she never thought about acting, even when Anderson suggested it, and reading the script for Licorice Pizza for the first time: “I remember him looking at me and being like, ‘I’m going to put you in a movie one day.’ And I was like, ‘Okay!’” her voice signaling she did not think he was really going to put her in a movie.
While she was in London in 2019, he sent her a Word doc containing a screenplay. It was the first script she’d ever read. “It was an untitled script and the first name on the script was Alana.
And I was like, ‘That’s crazy, Paul’s going to use my name in a movie.’ I read the script I think three times that night.
It had so much of the Valley in it and so much of the things I grew up with. A lot of stories that I had told Paul were in the script already.
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