"The Allison Chronicles"

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...Prior to her weekly gig as intrepid girl reporter Chloe Sullivan, Allison starred as Nik Faulkner in the directorial debut of actor Eric Stoltz (perhaps best known to audiences as shy artist Keith from the John Hughes classic teen movie Some Kind of Wonderful) My Horrible Year! for the Showtime cable network.

"I had dinner with Eric Stoltz while he was in Canada [filming the Showtime original series Out of Order in Vancouver]. He's a very, very cool man. My Horrible Year! is haunting me!" she laughs, after she's told that one of her co-stars from that film, J. Adam Brown, had actually signed the guestbook at allison-mack.com with well-wishes for her engagement.

Unlike her previous series and film experience, My Horrible Year! was Mack's first lead and she has nothing but praise for both the first-time director Stoltz and the experience.

"It was fun, because we were learning together. In my so many years of acting, I had never been number one on the call sheet," she says and then quickly explains for the benefit of her non-showbiz savvy fans that the lead is always number one on the call sheet. "We were learning it together and had a sort of bonding experience. [Eric] was so funny, because it was his directorial debut—and I think it's part of his personality too—he's very very very organised. So we were in and out in thirteen hours, which is amazing. Especially when have a time restriction on the amount of time you can shoot. It's incredible to be able to get it done in thirteen hours. The first season of Smallville, when we were working everything out, we would do sixteen and seventeen hour days. So he was an awesome director to work with. I really liked him a lot."...

reported by Tara O'Shea

full text and a special mention of Mary Stuart Masterson here