Check Yes Juliet

Hailee Steinfeld recently chatted about her new film Romeo & Juliet. The young star is set to play Juliet in the new film adaptation due out October 11. Highlights from her interview are below.

On why she signed onto play Juliet: “I was reading the book in school at the time that I heard that they were remaking the film, and you know, I had watched the [director Franco] Zeffirelli version a few years ago … The idea of knowing that it had been done before was present but just sort of walking into it with a different director who had a different take with all these incredible actors — everything about it was so different although we’re retelling the same story.”

On some of her more intimate scenes in the film: “A lot of the scenes … we just got right into it and didn’t have much time to think on it or sort of get nervous about it. But obviously reading it on paper, it seems kind of intimidating, but Douglas [Booth] was great, and we had a very respectful cast and crew. It went really smoothly.”

You can check out more from Hailee’s interview here. I am so excited to see her version of the film!