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Building Up a Backstory: Teresa Palmer came up with her own ideas as to her character’s history in December Boys. “I did build a back story. Rod and I worked together, and that’s actually one of the reasons why I got the film was because he asked me before the meeting, he said, ‘Look, I want you to think about the character. Tell me your thoughts.’ I came with this elaborate backstory starting from when she was 3 and like where she went to school and all these funny things.

He was like, ‘Whoa! That’s incredible because I had so many of the same ideas for the character.’

My ideas were that she was really brought up in a very dysfunctional family in a very sexually charged environment. If she is staying in this little caravan with her uncle, this tiny little caravan, you don’t really know what happens to her. I think she’s been subjected to a lot of bad influences. I think she’s actually quite a tragic sort of character, and I think that her relationship with Maps, she really gets as much out of it as what he does.”

Up Next – Kids in America: “I am playing Tori Frederking who is the dreamgirl of Topher Grace’s character, Matt Franklin. And it’s an 80s comedy so I did the 60s with December Boys, now I did the 80s with Kids in America and it was really fun. It’s like American Graffiti but for the 80s. It’s sort of got that Superbad-type of feeling to it. It’s so hilarious. I worked with comedic geniuses. It was wonderful. It comes out in March.”

That 80s Hair and Makeup: Palmer described it in one word: ridiculous.

“It’s like a whole bowl of hairspray everyday,” joked Palmer. “No, it was like sky high. I have these huge big bangs. I had eye make-up drawn right up to my eyebrows. It was great. I had these shoulder pads. I got to wear this vintage Halston gold sparkly dress. They wanted her to be like the golden girl. It was so much fun and the 80s music is the best 80s music in the film as well. I think everyone will really like it.”