Hubner: So what was home life like with your parents? I hung out with guys mostly and I have two older brothers … total tomboy! I had one serious boyfriend and didn’t know I was allowed to be gay. I was super into art, a total music nerd, sports jock, catholic-school-girl that listened to loud heavy-metal and punk music, and did all of the mind-altering substances and experiences I could find. I was friends with every “click” in school, but never fully felt like I fit in anywhere except with my best buddy Justin. Kelly Sebastian: I was a good, oftentimes trouble-maker, artsy kid. Hubner: What was your childhood like? Were you a wild child? White “third type of New Yorker.” As a young creative in a complex place of deep culture and wild diversity, I only had a responsibility to make something of myself – so this is where adulthood started for me. I moved here in the late nineties, a young, teenage artist transplant on a quest of something … an E.B. Kelly Sebastian: My hometown roots are in Reading, Pennsylvania, but I “grew up” in New York City. Where are you from? Where did you grow up? In the meantime, here’s my chat with the lovely Kelly Sebastian. Sebastian.īut you’ll see that for yourself, I’m sure. It’s a warts and all performance that should open many doors for Ms. Kelly Sebastian turns Audrey Harrington’s self-doubt and stubborn determination into something you end up rooting for by the time the credits roll. Someone that could make a mildly dislikable character likable in the end. He needed someone that could humanize Audrey. Locke truly lucked out in meeting and casting Kelly Sebastian. That’s an important number as when you do finally get to see this film(and you will, trust me) you will see what an amazing job this group of individuals did with next to nothing. Locke shot this film with his cast and a couple other folks entirely in New York City for $880. Writer/director(as well as editor, photographer, and probably coffee guy) Greg W. It’s a long, demeaning, and sometimes dirty road to making a living doing what you love, and this film portrays it honestly with humor, some darkness, and plenty of humility. At one point Audrey points out she has two Masters and still can’t even get an interview for an entry-level job without someone pulling some strings for her. We see that regardless of the expensive college educations, obvious talent, and drive to succeed that none of that is enough to make ends meet. At the beginning of the film Harrington is kicked out of her apartment and has no choice but to move in with her friend Lauren(La.) From here we follow Audrey, La, and their friends Ollie and Aaron through the harsh, cold, and unforgiving winter months in New York City. In her latest film Forever Into Space( she plays a down on her luck writer named Audrey Harrington. Sebastian has the girl-next-door look of a young Meryl Streep, and the on-screen charisma of Jennifer Jason Leigh at the point of near boil over. The need to create came a little later, but when it did there was no going back for her. As you’ll soon find out during the conversation I had with her recently she’s always had an interest. New York by way of Pennsylvania artist/filmmaker/actor Kelly Sebastian has been steeped in the arts for a long time both as a lover and maker of them.
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