Coming out to LA was great because I could be 5'4" and eat what I wanted and there was no pressure.
Everything affects me and I just absorb everything and I mean, it's just really pleasant to work with someone like and that and so much fun and just so easy.
For me, high school was very academic and about graduating.
I also liked the idea that Charlotte could be a figment of this guy's imagination. There's a lot of symbolism as well.
I can't think too far ahead in the future, but I often think, Will I ever work again? And that I need to get my act seriously together or who knows what's going to happen. I guess I'm just getting old.
I definitely don't think it would be a good thing for me to be in another high school ensemble comedy, you know what I mean?
I did a part in Slums of Beverly Hills and I was in Kiss the Girls for a moment, and some more.
I don't know but I'd definitely like to grow, as person and an actress.
I don't think I'd kill myself if I stopped acting. It would definitely be a sad day, but right now I'm just trying to work my hardest and enjoy everything I've been given because I feel I've been given a lot.
I enjoyed being on different sets and learning the ropes.
I know that's how I've gotten here today so it hasn't led me to say strategically that I'm not going to do any more studio films. But I also think there's more creativity in independent filmmaking.
I love art and fashion.
I mean, my whole life I take step by step and look at everything individually.
I moved out here when I was 15 and I didn't really know anybody.
I never sat down and said, Oh, I want to be in the movies.
I really didn't go out and party every night. That's me, I don't party like that. But it really was about the part. I was intensely studying and reading up on the script.
I then went to a modeling convention and seventeen out of eighteen agents there asked to see me again, even though they only signed girls who were five foot seven or more - I was only five foot two.
I think the only way it's changed it is with all the publicity and people recognizing me. Like I said, it's all very surreal.
I try to give my all whenever I feel something is important.
I was never very popular, so I guess I was sort of a loser.
I went to New York when I was 13 and was there for the whole summer. It was about wearing the heels and looking taller and trying to look older.
I work really well with my agent, we have similar tastes and he knows what direction I want to take.
I'm an Aquarius and I don't know if that has anything to do with it but I'm very into arts and crafts.
I'm not religious myself but it was fascinating. The most important thing - in spite of any scepticism I would have had - is the reaction of the people and how emotional they became.
I've done a lot of things that were cool after American Beauty.
I've never felt like I was being exploited.
In my own life, I've always had fun playing with the kind of flamboyance I brought to Angela. It was like a personality I had already created on my own.
It was weird because I felt like I had to grow up really quick.
It's a weird feeling because the business is so unpredictable.
It's hard to find roles where the character has a personality, a real personality, and has things where... there are actually things going on.
It's just what I've chosen and for me that has to do with the story and also finding roles that I think are really good for me - something that I'm passionate about and interested in.
It's just, you know, there are so many two-dimensional characters, especially for women and I don't want to be in high school.
It's like he's my other half. I never thought that I would find someone so wonderful and that I would be married so young. It's a wonderful feeling.
It's really hard to find roles for women who are younger. Especially difficult with me because I look younger.
No, it was funny. It's like, What else would you want to do but go to the set and lay in a big tub of hot water with rose petals and you just sit there and everyone is working around you and changing the rose petals that get soggy?
So like, I'm an old married lady. I just go home.
So, I'm not just a big party person.
Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.
That day at the barn and in the rain, and I seriously thought that I was going to end up in the hospital with pneumonia, but we got it done.
The American Pie movies were fun to work on, I mean, they're comedy. We had a great time making those movies.
The first film I worked on was Gregg Araki's Nowhere.
The way it has worked out is that those films just happen to be independent and not studio.
Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.
Well, I had a few weeks here to work with a dialect coach on an Arkansas accent. You know, it's something that I don't do, any specific research.
Yeah, but I'm allergic to shellfish.
Yeah, I think so. I mean, everyone was so excited about the film and really wanted to be there and work their hardest on it, and I ended up playing a lot of poker with Nick's hair and makeup.
You're taking all these risks and you just hope you're making the right choices.
Mena is a vegetarian.
Mena attended the Vogue Magazine party October 20, 2005 in San Francisco, and thrilled guests by pouring them drinks behind the bar!
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