Nikki: I was raised by my mom. It was definitely a struggle competing with my brother who is only one year older than me. He wanted to be my older brother but I looked older than him. We were competing for my mom’s attention. There was so much tension between us that my mom backed away from us. It was so emotionally out of control.
Nikki: I know 13-year-old girls who are just like me, and I know 13-year-old girls who are still playing with Barbies.
Nikki: I grew up too fast. I looked a lot older than I was but when I was 13, I looked how I did now so I don’t know if I look 18 or whatever now. There’s a lot of stuff too. Competition with my brother. When I was 13, he was 14 and he was still a little boy. I would walk down the street and people would say, 'Oh, this is your little brother? He’s really cute.' So just normal stuff.
Nikki: I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I’m thankful for her. All I know is that when I’m a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.
Nikki (about the movie Thirteen): Most teen movies are fantasies, like The Princess Diaries. But my movie is coming from a completely different angle, which is truth. This is what really happens.
Nikki (about her character in Mini's First Time): I think that she's replacing all of that love that she didn't get with adrenaline, almost like trying match that feeling. So, it's all about pushing the limits and pushing her parents, whose going to turn their head and care about what she's doing. She has an affair with her step father because they both have that one thing in common, they live with this absolutely wretched woman, Diane, who is played by Carrie-Anne Moss. I know it sounds awful but they end up killing her mother, but it's all done in a sort of funny manner, if that helps.
Nikki: I did a movie called American Gun, which should be opening in the next few weeks. It's produced by Forest Whitaker and it's about the proliferation of guns in America with a bunch of specific stories that play in towns around the country. I also did a movie called Mini's First Time with Alec Baldwin that Kevin Spacey produced. I played Mini and that's opening July 14th in New York and LA.
Nikki (about her character in Mini's First Time): I just kind of loved the idea of playing a character that was so different than myself, it's actually the opposite. I grew up with very little money but with a mother who always over loved and was overly affectionate with my brother and I. So, I just thought that was something I could not relate to at all with where she was coming from, but it was something that I wanted to play.
Nikki (about her character in Mini's First Time): Mini comes from a very troubled placed. Her mother is an alcoholic and a drug addict. Basically, it's the theory of a human being raised without any sort of affection.
Nikki (about working with director Nick Guthe): Nick was so willing to collaborate, which I think all actors hope for. We want to be directed by someone who has a strong vision, which he did. But, he was also open to rehearsals, which I love. Letting the actors play with the material a little bit and find what's most comfortable. There were certainly some things I found in the script that originally I couldn't do because I was sixteen when we shot it, even though I was playing eighteen. He was very willing to make sure that I was comfortable with what I was doing and those are all things that are really important to me.
Nikki is graduating for high school this year.
Nikki says, "I didn't know when I finished Thirteen that I wanted to be an actress. I went back to high school, and then I realized I missed it. I had fallen in love with being on the set."
Nikki loves to go horseback riding.
Nikki's mother is a hair dresser.
Nikki's parents are divorced. They divorced when she was 2.
Nikki was raised in the Jewish faith.
The movie "Thirteen" was partially an autobiographical film about Nikki's rebellious life as a thirteen year old.
NIkki plays characters that are very adventurous and somewhat damaged.
NIkki wrote the script for the movie "Thirteen."
NIkki is in the movie "Cherry Crush" playing Shay Bettencourt.
NIkki is in the movie "American Gun" playing Tally.
NIkki is in the movie "Thirteen" playing Evie Zamora.
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