Analyzing Her Character: Silverstone explains her character’s place in the Stormbreaker story: “The reason she has to stay in the country is because she’s the only one who can take care of him. She’s his mother. He’s lost his parents, he’s lost his uncle. He has no one left in the world. If she’s not there, he’d go to some agency. Who would take care of him? I think that she’s just the only person left in his life.
She loves him and she would never leave him, but I don’t think she imagined that would be her responsibility for the rest of her life. She just thought she was the nanny. But she fell…I think you fall in love with the kid. She just loved him and she was never going to leave him anyway, even if the parents hadn’t have died. She was always going to be in his life forever.”
Alicia Silverstone on the Alex Rider Books: Silverstone hadn’t read any of the books prior to signing on to Stormbreaker, but did try and read them whenever there was free time on the set. “The girl who plays Alex Rider’s girlfriend, the love interest [Sarah Bolger], she’s lovely, and she asks, ‘Why are you reading that?’ I said ‘I’m trying to be a good student,’ or something. She’s like, ‘It’s the same as the story; it’s the same as the script.’ And I was like, ‘Ok, thanks.’”
Behind the Scenes of Silverstone’s Fight Scene with Missi Pyle: “It took so much because the choreographer is this really, really – I think he’s a very famous star in China or Hong Kong. He created this amazing sequence, but he didn’t – as most artists have this tendency – did not think of the actual execution of it. So Geoffrey [Sax], the director, and us – we were thinking this is going to be like 3 million shots. It’s here, there, and everywhere. We did have a day and half set aside for it, but we ended up making it another day. It ended up being about two days and a half total, but some things were done at the beginning and some was tacked on at the end.
It was really hilarious. He brought two Chinese guys with him as part of his team. One of the guys, his English name was Andy. He doesn’t speak English, and I don’t speak Chinese, and we both had this amazing relationship. I really liked him. It was like, ‘I love Andy,’ so I’m following him around because I wanted to match his shots. And the way he moved, it was just so impressive to me. I would say, ‘Do it for me because I want to copy you.’ And he would dress up, he was my stunt double; sometimes he was Missi’s stunt double, too. These Asian guys were wearing blonde wigs, and for [Missi] he had the blonde wig. It’s just very funny. They’re men and usually you have a female stunt double who sort of looks like you. In this case, it was a man and he was Chinese. It was hilarious and lovely. They were such nice guys. That whole thing, that was a really fun time.
Missi and I both didn’t want to disappoint the guy. We felt honored to be working with him. You have this thing where you really want to do a good job and respect something. Sometimes you would see his face and I could tell how he was so disappointed with me, like I wasn’t doing it good enough. ‘Ugh, it’s crushing.’ I went over to him and was like, ‘Oh, were you not happy?’ And he was like, ‘No, I wasn’t even thinking about you,’ so it was okay. But I’m like, ‘The camera is on me, and you just said cut, are you sure?’ But I think they were just stressed because of time.”
Working with Newcomer Alex Pettyfer: Even though Stormbreaker marks Pettyfer’s first starring role in a feature film, Silverstone says she didn’t treat him any differently. “I just sort of just didn’t do anything. I treated him like an actor. Like, ‘Try and get through the day and try and be professional.’ He’s super cute and very playful, so I had to be like, ‘Would you shut up?’, sometimes. ‘You’re being very distracting right now.’ He was adorable, and he’s very cute.”
Speaking of Cute and Adorable…: Is there ever a possibility of a Clueless 2? Silverstone says, “I feel like I had a weird dream about that, really strange. I think I had a weird dream about Amy Heckerling last night, now that you’re saying that. But there’s so much time that’s gone by… Oh my gosh, I really did, I had a dream about it. I was doing a movie with Amy and I was like, ‘Are you sure this is Clueless 2 because it was so long ago?’ But that’s really weird. I don’t know. I’d do it, but I’m not sure how you would do that character now. So many people have ripped it off, that I don’t know. If they did it, I’d love to be a part of it, of course. I haven’t really thought about that girl or where I was at – that’s a long time ago.”
