![]() ![]() I can tell what they wanted to do - they wanted to make it as all-inclusive as possible. ![]() They made Elizabeth African-American - not the shy Catholic girl with the ivory skin that the girls had envisioned. But girls are disappointed because they changed major characters, and you just can’t tamper with the major characters. I think it was well-acted, directed, all the rest. And I thought, that I can just drop, because even though it’s rampant in some communities, I mean, she doesn’t have to experience everything. But it’s not like they’re standing at the door, passing them out.” That wasn’t part of their growing up, and it wasn’t part of mine, and it wasn’t part of any kid that I knew. I asked them and they said, “There are people you can go to if you want them, Mom. I asked them once - somebody had said that the school they went to, was easy to get drugs. There were so many people I knew, and my sons, who - that just wasn’t in their landscape. ![]() I just tried to think, what would Alice meet? Now, I didn’t have her on drugs. We all met somebody that we assumed was gay. I just tried to think, what would she generally encounter in high school? And I think we all knew somebody who was pregnant. ![]() I just thought, in the life of a high school girl, what would she most likely face? I think that few of us get through high school without hearing about the death of a friend, in an accident or something. ![]()
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