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Jenny Lewis shares her talent with next generations’ former child actors
Thursday 24th January 2013 | Laura
Rilo Kiley's leader borrows her compositions to one of the lead characters of Very Good Girls, starred by Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen.
We all wander where all our favorite former child actors go. For some we still can follow their steps as Drew Barrimore or Anna Paquin. Others we totally forgot or don’t want to know, as Macaulay Culkin. In Jenny Lewis case, well, she just changed the scene from screens to venues. One of the most hired kids to perform in TV shows during the 80’s, Jenny Lewis, who appeared in famous comedies such as The Golden Girls, Baywatch, Mr. Belvedere or Roseanne, is now writing and performing songs with her band Rilo Kiley. Both of the leading roles of the movie are also performed by former child actors, Dakota Fanning, who never stopped working and deserves our admiration as she’s been outstanding in all of her roles, and Elizabeth Olsen, who was almost born as the youngest of Full House characters.
Very Good Girls, is the current project of this three actresses that grew up behind the scenes. Scriptwriter and debuting director Naomi Foner - also Maggie Gyllenhaal’s mother-, is the creator of this movie, which tells the story of two New York City girls who pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time. The character performed by Olsen is a songwriter, and Jenny Lewis wrote the songs that she plays. For the songs Lewis said to Billboard she allowed herself "some silly lyrics and some darker lyrics that I wouldn't necessarily gravitate toward now... I wanted the sound to reflect what you would have heard on my previous records with all my different bands." Aside from the film, Lewis has an entire new solo record near completion, which will be out by the end of this year or early 2014.
The film, which was recently presented on Sundance didn’t get enthusiastic reviews and still waiting for distribution, but Lewis states that anyway the soundtrack will be released.
By Laura Vila
