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Collins ready for red-carpet event

By Troy Roberts
Published: Friday, February 1, 2008

Lake City starlet Karley Scott Collins will be in California next week attending the premiere of her new movie, “The Hottie and the Nottie.” The movie, which stars Paris Hilton and sees Collins portray the younger version of Hilton’s character in the film, will be released in theaters on Feb. 8.The red carpet premiere will take place on Tuesday and will be Collins’ first movie premiere.“I feel absolutely ecstatic,” Collins said.

“The Hottie and the Nottie” sees a young man, Nate, returning home to L.A. to find the girl he has been in love with since his childhood (the hottie, portrayed by Collins and Hilton) but must first figure out what to do with her not-so-hot best friend (the nottie, Christine Lakin).Of course, when Nate gives the “nottie” a makeover and her real beauty begins to emerge, he begins to have feelings for her.

This is Collins’ first feature film. She has previously appeared on major network television shows, including CBS’ short-lived series “The Class” in 2006 and had a guest role on ABC’s “Private Practice” last year.However, Collins resume is quickly growing. She can also be seen in two horror films that are scheduled to be released later this year — “Pulse 2” and “The Amusement.” “I like ‘Pulse’ a lot,” Collins said. “The movie deals with these phantom things that try to take over the world. Whenever they get a hold of someone, they have these things called tendrils and they turn the person into a phantom. Whoever they touch, they turn into a phantom.“My mom is in the movie and turns into a phantom,” she said.

Collins, 8, first appeared in commercials before making her television debut in 2006. She said acting is definitely something that could turn into a career. “I feel like I want to do it until I die,” Collins said.Karley’s mother, Nena, said that Karley has her parents’ full support. “We don’t have a problem with it,” Nena said. “She makes straight A’s in school and she absolutely loves doing this.

“She’s the same little girl (she was before all of this) and there’s nothing that has changed about her at all.”

By Ashley Coleman
First Coast News

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Whether on a movie set in Hollywood or at home playing with toys, Karley Collins, 7, is enjoying herself.

The Lake City girl can be seen in movies, on television shows and commercials. This week, she'll guest star as a sick girl on the ABC show, "Private Practice."

"It's just amazing," she says. "The feeling is ecstatic -- being on stage and doing this stuff." Collins also has roles in the upcoming movies "Pulse 2" and "The Hottie and the Nottie." She enjoys acting in movies the most. "I really like to do film because I get to act a lot longer in film."

Her mom, Nena Collins calls Karley an "old soul." She says she and her husband are very proud of Karley, but they also want her to live a balanced life. "I think that the most important thing -- in order to keep her grounded -- is we try to be home as much as possible and I try to let her do things that all little kids do."

Karley also enjoys singing, playing tennis and with her toys. She gets straight A's at her school in Lake City. When she's on the road, she takes her homework with her and has teachers on the set. Karley wants to continue acting forever. "I'm going to do it until I die!"

You can watch Karley Wednesday on "Private Practice" at 9 p.m.

'Pulse' sequels stretch actors' imaginations

November 12, 2007
By Alexandyr Kent

It's commonplace for theater actors to rehearse for weeks in bare rehearsal spaces without sets and props. Actors are trained to imagine and convey worlds that aren't there, and they trust that the full dramatic illusion will be mapped out during tech week. A similar process sometimes unfolds for special effects-heavy movies shot on soundstages. Movies from "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" to "300" have required actors to perform scenes in front of blank blue- or greenscreens, trusting that their performances would be grafted onto computer-generated background plates during postproduction. That's how filmmakers are making two apocalyptic ghost story sequels which recently wrapped at Shreveport's Mansfield Studios: "Pulse: Afterlife" and "Pulse: Invasion." The cast spent 40 days shooting their scenes mostly in front of greenscreens, with backgrounds to be digitally inserted later.

Actress Georgina Rylance played a ghostly mother in "Pulse: Afterlife" and talked about the importance of bringing a good imagination to work every day. "I think you have to work harder because you have to pretend you're looking at something. Acting is all about the truth, so if you're not thinking the thought and really believing it, it's not going to come across on the screen," Rylance said. "There was one scene where I was walking down the street looking for my daughter, and a man falls out of a building nearly on top of me," Rylance continue. "The noose around his neck pulls him tight. So I'm basically walking on a greenscreen floor with a greenscreen background looking up at a greenscreen sky pretending that there is a man about to fall on top of me." For most film productions, Rylance added, she wouldn't see a man falling on top of her. But there would be a real street. There would be buildings. There would be sky. There would be a lifelike setting to draw emotions from.

Actor Jamie Bamber, who shot "Pulse: Afterlife" before returning to the Vancouver set of effects-heavy TV series "Battlestar Galactica," is accustomed to acting in front of greenscreens. He said shooting scenes at Mansfield Studios was much like rehearsing for the stage. In theater, "you tend to do six weeks work with just tape on the floor," Bamber said. "It's very much having to carry it with your eyes, your voice and your body rather than objects." Like Rylance, Bamber said his greenscreen work relies heavily on visualization. "The mental gymnastics have to be that much sharper," he said. "You have to do a bit more kind of painting of your own. If you walk on to a perfect set or a perfect location, the reality sort of dictates your behavior. What we have to do with this is supply it out."

Child actress Karley Scott Collins (CBS's "The Class") also pointed out that creating the illusion goes beyond imagining the surrounding world. Her performance drew from the interplay between actors. She recalled a scene where she worked with Bamber to create a convincing crisis. "It's not super hard to cry, but you have to be with an actor that can actually generate the sadness," Collins said. "You can't just cry off the bat. You have to be with an actor who can generate the power of the scene."

Producer Michael Leahy, of the production company Neo Art & Logic, said the "Pulse" sequels are using high-tech but accessible technology to create ghostly worlds from three-dimensional photographs drawn in the real world. "Right now you can comp out of a Mac Pro computer," Leahy said. "The technology we are bringing is just software. It can be just computers and a still camera, so the technology is here." Leahy and his team recently began production in Plain Dealing on two more sequels. This time, they are following up the 2005 horror flick, "Feast." All four sequels are being produced by Neo Art & Logic and Weinstein Company's Dimension Films.

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