Marling: Brings experience to 'Earth'

Brit MarlingBefore the Sundance Film Festival, Brit Marling have been butting facing the difficulties facing any youthful actress."After I found L.A., I truly could not decipher it out," she confesses. "Should you did not start whenever you were three years old doing advertisements, how can you begin?"So Marling made the decision to consider matters into her very own hands, co-writing, creating and starring in 2 shoestring indies: "Another Earth" and "Seem of My Voice," which both opened in Park City this season.Although the actress had analyzed theater becoming an adult, if this came time for college, she elected for any broad liberal arts degree over drama school."How may you be an actress and never study theology and physics?" asks Marling, who chosen financial aspects as her major. Then she met Mike Cahill and Zal Batmanglij, fellow Georgetown students who had directed a brief film featured within an on-campus sprocket opera.Impressed, she introduced herself towards the pair, causing a powerful friendship that transported through college (she spent the relaxation of her time at Georgetown juggling econometrics proofs and making short films using the men) and beyond. After graduation, she and Cahill visited Cuba making a documentary known as "Boxers and Ballerinas," while Batmanglij enrolled in the American Film Institute.Then came the disappointment of attempting to make it in Hollywood."I am always annoyed by the concept that a lot of what you can do to rehearse your craft is away from control," Marling states. "I recognized the fastest method of doing things i want, which would be to act, is always to train myself to create.InchSo she made "Earth" (with Cahill) and "Voice" (with Batmanglij). While greatly different in fashion, the 2 projects -Body a portrait of regret set against an ambitious sci-fi premise, another a mind-bender in regards to a beguiling cult leader -- reveal Marling like a unique quantity, more ingenious than ingenue, having a soulful streak which comes through both onscreen as well as in the fabric itself.After Sundance, Fox Searchlight clicked up privileges to both photos and greenlit another, "The East." Marling also stars in Robert Redford's "The Organization You Retain,Inch by which she could act another person's words, at least."The one thing that's most enjoyable and intoxicating would be to lose yourself in another person's imagination," she states.Lucky break: "Visiting the Georgetown Film Festival and meeting Mike and Zal and finding two collaborators for existence. After which Sundance."Favorite film: "'Lust, Caution.' I really like it's an espionage thriller having a female protagonist."Career Let me emulate: "Anthony Hopkins. It's astounding to possess that durability and also to carry on growing.Inch10 Stars To Look At 2011:Benedict Cumberbatch Jean Dujardin Luke Evans Josh Hutcherson Felicity Johnson Taylor Kitsch Brit Marling Elizabeth Olsen Octavia Spencer Shailene Woodley Contact Peter Debruge at peter.debruge@variety.com