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That Worries Me An Awful Lot. If People Misunderstand Our Intentions [in Black Snake Moan], Especially Regarding My Character, Then They're Essentially Exploiting An Already Exploited And Abused Woman. So It's A Huge Concern For Me.

The More That I Can Work In Different Mediums, The More I Can Grow, And Learn From Different Actors And Different Types Of Actors And Directors And Different Styles Of Acting And Build A Tool Box.

If An Audience Doesn't Get That [black Snake Moan] Is A Movie About Overcoming Exploitation, It Could Come Across As Incredibly Misogynistic. That Would Be The Worst Thing In The World For Me.

We Might All Be So Afraid To Be Who We Are, But In The End, It's Really You're Individual, Unique Qualities That Make You Attractive To People.

The Movies I Made Early On May Not Have Been Great, But They Were All Commercially Successful.