Abbie Cornish as: Ashley Colton
Other Cast: Will Patton, Maritza Santigo Hernandez
Production Status: Post-production
Release Date: n/a
Directed By: David Riker
Screenwriters: David Riker
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: n/a
Studio: Journeyman Pictures
The Girl tells the story of Ashley Colton (Abbie Cornish), a desperate young mother who tries unsuccessfully to turn her life around by smuggling immigrants across the dangerous border between Texas and Mexico - a trade she learns from her hard-living father, Tommy (Will Patton). When this quick money scheme fails horribly, she unwillingly ends up travelling across Mexico with a newly orphaned eight-year-old girl from Oaxaca (Maritza Santigo Hernandez) — embarking on a journey that will change her life forever.
Trivia & Facts
• Filming Locations:
Austin, Texas
Oaxaca, Mexico
• Emily Blunt has been attached to the project but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Abbie Cornish was later cast.
• Abbie is learning Spanish for the movie. She'll have a couple of months only to prepare.
Quotes from Abbie Cornish
• "It's the story of a 25-year-old Texan girl who lives quite close to the Mexican border. She has a five-year-old son that she's lost to the welfare system, she sees an opportunity to make money bringing illegal immigrants across the border. So she does it as a one-off and during this incident in a river, she's left with the responsibility of a 9-year-old girl. So it's her journey with a 9-year-old Mexican girl through Mexico to get her home."
• "I'm prepping more on this film than I have on any other film before. The only one that would come close in regards to preparation is Sucker Punch but that was very much physical preparation, because we trained for three months before we started filming. 70 percent of my dialogue is in Spanish. I don’t know how to speak Spanish, if only the NZT drug was real!" [she said, referring to the smart drug in Limitless that allows its users to unlock the other 90 percent of their brain and therefore unleash an intelligence that makes learning new languages an afternoon task.]
• "I've only got a couple of months, but I can only do what I can do. I go to Mexico really soon. I'm going to spend a lot of time with the little girl, her name is Maritza, she’s a non-actor and doesn’t speak a word of English, so it's pretty awesome."
• "It's quite a challenging film as I’ve had to learn to speak Spanish and I don’t know how to speak it at all. It’s an incredible feat because I’ve only got a couple of months to prepare."
• “I'm actually really excited and I love places because I love to travel and I've never been to Mexico. I love that energy where the culture and the life is so vibrant."
Quotes from her Character
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Quotes from the Film
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Quotes from Others
• "Ashley Colton's journey is epic and full of surprise, taking us from the hard grit world of south Texas to a remote mountain village in southern Mexico. Abbie disappears into this character, delivering an indelible and compelling performance."
- Paul Mezey (The Girl producer)
From Critics
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