I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.