2013-04-11 / 16:18:06
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Gimme Shelter - Bakom Kulisserna

We sat down with the man behind this project, writer-director-producer-editor (and humanitarian) Ronald Krauss, who based Gimme Shelter on true stories culled from his experience living amongst homeless pregnant teens at a shelter in New Jersey

So how did he end up with Hudgens at the center of it all, a starlet usually likened to projects as glossy as the Disney vehicles that initially made her famous? “The girls picked her!” Krauss retorts, describing how he put all of his top casting choices on a tape and sent it to the residents of the shelter. And he was thrilled they picked her. “I felt that she had the most swagger. There was a side to Vanessa that she brought, that nobody else showed. And it was a side that Hollywood hadn’t showed of her.”

And Vanessa gave all of herself to the role. “I had Vanessa come to live in the shelter, with the girls, to transform into this character,” Krauss recalls. “She lived on the top floor of…a convent which was converted into a shelter. I put her [there] and I left her. Took her cellphone. She was very emotional…breaking into this character. She slowly started transforming.”

That transformation has already begun to make waves, bucking expectations and making naysayers think twice. “I don’t think I’ve ever even met Vanessa,” Krauss emphasizes, remembering that right from her first audition the actress lost much of the pomp and circumstance of a Hollywood darling. Instead, she retreated deep into the complexities of Apple Bailey, the troubled figure at the center of Gimme Shelter who goes “from a street girl to a mother.”


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