{"id":11598,"date":"2012-10-03T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:18:49","slug":"liberal-arts-elizabeth-olsen-talks-college-stalkers-and-manic-pixie-dream-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/10\/03\/liberal-arts-elizabeth-olsen-talks-college-stalkers-and-manic-pixie-dream-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"LIBERAL ARTS: Elizabeth Olsen talks college stalkers and manic pixie dream girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Olsen talks to Wonderland<\/em> about her new film, Liberal Arts, and why she most definitively isn't a manic pixie dream girl.<\/p>\n

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So your character Zibby is a college student who's actually pretty mature for her age. How was the uni experience for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, terrifying. I went to the same school from when I was 5 to 18, so going to a college was terrifying! I didn\u2019t have a friend! Not anyone going to the particular part of NYU I was going to, and that was horrifying. I chose theatre, but I also came from a place where I liked film and I felt like I was going into this world where everyone knew so much more than me. I was almost embarrassed by not knowing as much as everyone else. <\/p>\n

Liberal Arts has been kind of called a 'manic pixie dream girl<\/a>' film of the Garden State variety, with Zibby as the manic pixie dream girl. Agree or disagree?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I've never heard of that, what is that? [after the term is explained] Oh, right! Well I didn\u2019t, I thought of her as someone who hasn\u2019t found the person she thinks she can connect with. It\u2019s just too bad that the first person she feels that way about is the exact wrong thing she needs. I think it\u2019s really sad. When she says it\u2019s the saddest thing ever, it is \u2013 to feel like you know what you want someone to give you and you think you find that, but it ends up being the wrong person. It is sad. <\/p>\n