Mischa Barton Interview

Mischa Barton talks to MTV about her role on "Assassination of a High School President" - the interview still refers to the movie by its working title, "The Sophomore."

Mischa Barton refers to the movie as a "dark flick" that "harkens back to ‘Ferris Bueller’". From the sounds of it, this movie has a lot more to offer than I originally thought! It’s not your normal high school movie. It’s made for adults, with dark and sexual adult overtones. And Mischa is right in it all.

Here are some excerpts from that interview & a video clip, below:

Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy teams up with girl to unearth deep mysteries and overthrow the established social order.

If that doesn’t sound like your typical high school movie set-up, well, that’s probably because "The Sophomore" (also known as "Assassination of a High School President") ain’t exactly your typical high school movie, say co-stars Reece Thompson and Mischa Barton.

"The whole plot is quite deep. The characters are quite well-rounded," Barton told MTV News during a recent visit to the film’s Bayonne, New Jersey, set. "I think what’s really nice about it is that there is really mature dialogue in there. It still holds [to] those high school stereotypes, but it harkens back to ‘Ferris Bueller’ or a good high school movie where you really love the characters."

But don’t let the fact that it’s set in a high school fool you, Barton insisted — this movie is adult through and through.

"It’s probably [gonna] be rated R," she revealed. "It’s all kind of dark and darkly shot instead of all cheesy and bubblegum."

In fact, "The Sophomore" has more in common tonally with old-school ’70s detective thrillers like "Chinatown" or "All the President’s Men," Thompson said, than it does with "The Breakfast Club" or "Sixteen Candles," complete with a story that would please any hard-core noir enthusiast…

As in any good noir, for instance, there’s more to each character than meets the eye — not least of all in Barton’s character, Francesca, the sultry "popular girl" and love interest of Thompson’s Bobby Funke (pronounced "Funk").

"She’s more like my love interest," Thompson corrected, laughing. "Bobby falls in love with Francesca, but she has her own design."

"Francesca is a manipulative girl who knows what she’s doing," Barton added coyly. "A total femme fatale, very aware of her sexuality."

Mischa admitted that it was "amazing" to have all the boys around on the set during filming. Here is a video (US restricted for watching) of the interview:

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