Lucy Fry and Sami Gayle talk enrolling in Vampire Academy with Den of Geek.
I’m going to start with the obvious question; were you familiar with the source material?
Lucy Fry: Not before I got cast but as soon as I was cast, I dove into the books and I loved them.
Sami Gayle: I was familiar with it through friends but I had never read the book until I began to get involved with the film, at which point I began to read the book, and I loved it. Richelle Mead is such an incredible author and she came to set, and we all got to meet her on this one day when we had this huge scene, and everyone in the film was in the scene. She’s just such a charismatic, fun personality.
Were you first interested in joining the film based on the script alone or did you want to read the book before you really delved into this?
Sami: I loved the script. I’m such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother who directed. Vampire Academy has, I think, an iconic director. Mean Girls, Heathers, which Daniel Waters wrote, Freaky Friday, which Mark directed; those are some of my favorite films.
Lucy: Mean Girls, I’m obsessed with Mean Girls as every teenage girl is. Pretty much everyone is.
