AJ: Smmm I'd kill anybody that hurt my brother. Yeah, there's--you know, it makes me just--it actually makes me miss--it's the strange thing about life when your--it's so much th--that confinement does or--or we forget in life--how--we all run around doing our things--and when yer--when yer forced together in a situation like these girls are to just survive and go through what they're going through--purge all these things and--you know--it's like Winona--I got to know all these sides of her--her vulnerabilities and her you know fight and her strength and her fear--we see the beauty in these people--but how much I love these girls--I loved being in there, which is strange but--loved that I was forced to just be with other people and we were just forced to just get to know each other and so much in the day you know we don't do that and it's--it was just a nice thing--they were so amazing!-- these women--so amazing--to work with--Clea and Gillian--and everybody Lacey-- CR: But you said you'd kill for your brother. AJ: Yeah, kinda went over that, didn't I? I was like--it was like--homicidal side of me--and-- CR: No--it says something about your relationship with your brother. AJ: Yeah. CR: I mean, what's that about? AJ: Uhhh--he's just--uhm he's--I admire him so much--I have--I have just watched him become the most amazing per--the most amazing man--he's my strength--he's-- CR: How old is he? AJ: He's two years older than me--and he and I are looking for a house together--starting a production company together--he is--uh--he's been studying acting--he's been doing--we've done scenes together and things and I think he's brilliant--but he's studied as a d--he actually has a degree as a director--uhm and I did all of his--we did all his student films together and that--it's fun together-- CR: Best friend? AJ: Best friend. And uh yeah I had just--going through something the other d--some time ago and uh called my--my brother who I usually treat him like a baby but--I'm really protective and really crazy--but--uh I called him and--came in stood up for me and I ended up falling in his arms crying he just--held me but--was just so strong--so good-- CR: This is another scene, where you're flirting with a waiter in an ice cream parlor. Need I say more? AJ: No, this was fun. CR: Roll tape. (Clip) CR: That's fun. AJ: That is fun. I'm--I love--her--she was just so she was just so fun to play--it was just being--you know every--just being able to follow our impulses--that thing yer in an elevator and just think--that everybody's just really quiet and you see a little kid some in and he sits on the floor and just goes, "Aaahhgh" and you just think--that's exactly right--and nobody can do it and--she could do it. CR: Yeah, how did you and Winona get along, after-- AJ: Great--I think--I mean we didn't get to know each other that well--because of the characters and--we had a short time together--so "great" is a funny way--I don't know her as well as you know I'd like to know her. CR: As you'd like to. AJ: Yeah, yeah, I think--I think she's a--she's a really--from what I know of--from what I saw of her--I mean she put this film together--and you know, cared about this and gave gave a lot to this I think it was--it was hard to be so vuln--this was a tough character for her and just to watch her go through--watch her worry about it and--put herself through it you know, I--I really admire that. I admire her work. Uhm CR: It sounds like you like strong people. AJ: I do--I--I--and I don't--no--I don't not like weak pe--I--I don't like people who are not comfortable with themselves and pretend to be something else so that's the only weakness so--you could be as weak and as silly and as emotional and-- CR: As long as you're authentic and real. AJ: --because I think that's strong to be able to be real, yeah, yeah--to--to--I like to--I like to meet people--that's why people are always telling me I'm too honest or I'm too--I say too much or I'm too uh--and you know I talk a lot--I love it when people come up and talk to me--I--for some reason I do--I love sharing people and hearing things back--and you know--I--I like--I don't want to get to know the surface of somebody, there's no point--that's why we're here--I want to know--everything. CR: Let me just talk about this because it's so much of this. I mean, here is Premiere Magazine. Uhm, you and Winona walk on the wild side. (holding it up) AJ: I know. I like how it's the vanguard the--the--it's like the rebels-- CR: Yeah.  AJ:--the rebels on the cover--  CR: Yeah. AJ: --that's funny CR: Here is something else from-- AJ: Jane. CR: What The Hell Is Wrong With Angelina Jolie? (holding it up) AJ: Damnitt! CR: I don't know what they mean. AJ: I was trying to figure--I opened it up trying to figure--I was hoping it would answer my question--I thought, "Thank God! Found it! Something I want to read!" CR: See, you could be any one of these-- AJ: That's something I could tell-- CR: You know, Sex Fantasies You Won't Even Tell Your Shrink-- AJ: I know that's actually-- CR: We could talk about that, too-- AJ: I have a lot of shrink fantasies, too. I know. CR: Shrink or sex? AJ: Both. CR: Uh, Ten Gutsy Women, you could do that. AJ: And seven spineless losers. CR: He husband fell off--out of the armor--armor. Sorry, we don't want to talk about that. Uh, Movieline is uh, the next big thing you are. (holding it up) AJ: I suppose so. CR: Yeah. Does it matter? AJ: I--no--we--it's actually--I don't like it. CR: You don't-- AJ: I like--I like that there's support-- CR: You don't like being the next big thing or being talked about as the next big thing-- AJ: I like that there's support for your work--I--I think that there's sometimes--you can be--I'm so--it's so scary to sometimes become like--like that--you might--seeing your name above title it's great that might mean something--that your other work might mean something--but--it's not Angelina in Girl, Interrupted--and--if you're watching and if celebrities become things--you know my private life--just so you can watch a movie and be watching a movie--and be--kind of--that I can always change--that I don't have anything-- that it's--that it doesn't really matter--it's like you know--I don't--I'm--I don't want to be treated differently, I'm not different--not like-- CR: Yeah.  AJ: You know, so-- CR: Exactly. I'm just gonna show this cuz it's fun. AJ: This is fun. CR: They're all recent-- AJ: I swear my eyes are a different color. CR: Yeah and what this one is Allure. (holding it up) AJ: This--this is cuz I spend a lot of time on the beach. CR: Holy Moly It's Angelina Jolie! You spend a lot of time on the beach? AJ: No. CR: No, I thought. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Where'd they shoot that? AJ: I--I don't know. It was cold. CR: And you were saying, "Can we get this over with?" AJ: And they picked it--yeah--I was just like-- CR: And what about--this one says (holding it up)--uh, here, see, Angelina Jolie Is The Next Screen Goddess: Venus Rising. AJ: I guess I got a lot to do. I'm the next a lot of things. I mean, tomorrow--tomorrow-- CR: Let's just see another side of Lisa before we leave this film. Here is it is, roll. (show clip--Lisa in chair "jam this in my aorta") AJ: Whoopie. So fun. CR: Tell me about the character of, uh, Gia, which is what Winona--as I understand, first saw--that sort of made her think of you--for Lisa. AJ: The work. Yeah. Yeah. Well, God, Gia is just--it's like hearing a friend's name--she's it's funny, people have actually accidentally called me that, which is weird--and I'm close friends with the guy that was the young man in the movie, his name is John Long-- CR: Just for the sake of people who didn't see this-- AJ: I'm sorry, she was-- CR: --she was a young model who became addicted-- AJ: --she was from Philadelphia, she was a young girl, she was really spirited, wild--she was really one of the first-- CR: Few.  AJ:--yeah, one of the first models to really, uh, you know, kind of show this kind of wild, free side, I think break from a lot of this, uh, this things out the seventies people were kind of glossy and she was real natural--and, she, uh--and then became addicted to heroin--and it's important to me that she that's spirit--cuz she was so spirited--before--she didn't--as opposed to being wild because of something--that she--just-- CR: She was wild. AJ: --shows the sadness was because she was so bright before--anything--and--uh, and then she--was in--and then, she, was one the--from what I know, uh you know, was really one of the first, uh--you know it was--AIDS was coming out and she--she got AIDS--and at that time, uhm, people didn't know what it was and so they had this--you know, we had scenes where--we didn't really know what it was--we didn't understand--and there are these people in these kind of space masks--cuz yer contaminated--as far as they're concerned, then--and they locked her in a room and had all these kinds of things and she was--and she died and it was, uh--but she also had these notebooks of her de-which are her death and the poems in the end of the film--and--she--uh--she loved that song--from--it was in The Breakfast Club--everybody knows--"But Don't Forget About Me"--thing--but she used to run around singing it and she wrote these poems that--that were about kind of not--you know, that somebody could--somebody could learn something from what she went through-- but that--but that she that didn't regret her life and that she felt--so, somehow that sickness, uhm, really kind of put her back in the center of who she was and made her comfortable with her life. CR: Roll tape. This is just one scene we'll show, in which she encounters a receptionist at her first meeting with a modeling agency. Roll tape. Clip) CR: Now you were how old then? Twenty? Maybe? AJ: Yeah. CR: Twenty. AJ: Yeah, mhmm, twenty, something like that I, uhm--there's an amazing--it did--Michael Cristofer, who I'm about to work with again--I'm so excited--uh--in Mexico--uhm--he just--I--I did everything I could to not do this film--to back away from it when I would get the sc--when I got the script--I don't know, she was too close to me--if I was worried about them making a model, heroin-addict, H--it--not doing it right and making it, you know, kind of superficial and uhm--but--but I met Michael and he forced me to, he said "You know, can can just read me-- just read for me and--I--cuz it'll help me with the script and stuff"--I had dyed my hair blonde and was like, pissed off and stuff and I came in I was like, "Fine"--so, I read and I--and, then, he said, "Can you help with the script?"--and I would go in and meet with Michael--"You know, she can't say that cuz--you know--and you can't"--and apparently my--my little tape was my screen test and I didn't know it and he said--and he fooled me--but--he was so-- CR: He saw what you were like. AJ:--he really supported-- CR: Cuz he was what you were really like. AJ: Yeah--he really supported me--he thought--that--I--he said if--if he couldn't find her--it doesn't do--but he was just--he's just--he's just this amazing person--he really c--cared about her--that's why the film worked--he--really liked her she--and thought that her problem--she just--she wanted to make everybody happy--she wanted love--this is what became the attitude--she wanted--you know--that if someone was gonna--which is why then the addiction was just--when she'd go down, she wasn't up and people--she was late and she was in--and people were--disappointed in her--and then if she could get up then everybody was happy with her and she was fabulous and--and she was fun and when she was depressed nobody was--nobody wanted to deal with that--so she wanted to be this--she--so--she was kind of--we thought she was kind of a--caring person--as crazy as it was--she also was really wild and really free--really sexual and--which you can take in the m--which I think I am and I think that is a--I think that's a good thing--I think that's-- CR: I do, very much. I wish I had more time. Uhm. You are remarkable. AJ: Oh, mmm--thanks, thank you. I--I hope to do this again. CR: January 14th, Girl, Interrupted, uhm--opens around the country. AJ: Oh, okay. Go see it please. CR: Go. Thank you for joining us. See you next time.