No, absolutely not. It means that anybody who is chasing their dream understands the uphill struggle that it is and says, "We are going to go through life and are we going to play by somebody else's rules or not? Are we going to sacrifice or compromise?" When you are a dream chaser, when you are passionate about something you are going after it. There are always going to be some compromises, but what you never want to do is sacrifice.
I think that 'prey' is like you fall victim to your dream. It's like success at all costs, like failure is not an option. It's like, "This is the way it has to be." You become so immersed in it that that’s how it is. You don’t want play by someone else’s rules.
You've also been filming "First Daughter." What’s the chemistry like between you and Katie Holmes?
Probably the best I’ve felt with an actress. It's going to be an interesting thing for me to see on screen, whether that translates.
Katie and I, I felt, approach work the same way. We’re not into the game playing, we’re not into ego. We show up, we know our lines, we're prepared. We both kind of have the same background of training. We really got along. It was really nice to act opposite someone who is 5'10". So many times it looks like I’m telling my child to look both ways to cross the street, because at my size versus a 5'2" girl, it sometimes looks like I’m talking to a kid. It was great.
Forrest Whitaker is just a good-hearted, great man. I think he had a great vision for the movie. I think he made a really good film.
How realistic is the movie’s portrayal of the Secret Service?
We had a Secret Service tech guy there all the time. My research for that was I asked him to - because I’m undercover protecting Katie’s character - I asked him, I was like, "Hey, I want you to treat me as if I’m the President’s son and let's go walk the promenade." I just wanted to watch him watch me in a public setting and to hear his stories. He's like, "Well, what I can tell you..." What he's allowed to tell, you always try to probe and get a little extra dirt - as if he’s going to give that up. But our tech advisor was on Jesse Jackson's Presidential campaign. You have a black minister running for President, I gotta believe that was a pretty heavy detail. The Secret Service had to be on their toes for that one. He's since retired but he’s a great guy, a lot of stories. So yeah, there was a lot of accuracy in what we did. I was like, "Look. I just don't want to do the sunglasses thing and standing [in a clichéd way] type of thing." But they do that stuff for a reason because they're scanning the crowd and they don’t want people to see their eyes.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Lori Petty & Shelly Cole, Drea de Matteo, and Gina Gershon Interviews
"Prey for Rock & Roll" Trailer, Credits, and Websites
