Actors Research- Inspirations

While researching for inspiration for her character, at first it was difficult to find a character that subverts stereotypical representations of a teenage girl since big Hollywood productions that dominate films at the box office often choose to portray young girls as very fashion obsessed "girly" and living the high life. For instance "Wild Child" at the beginning of the film and "Mean Girls". However I reflected about these stereotypical representations and understood that Leo's character would be opposite to them.

I was able to use the character of Poppy as inspiration at the end of "Wild Child" (not the beginning) since she is portrayed as more natural English teenager like Leo, and also she is represented as sad and depressed because of losing her mother. Since Leo desperately wants to find her relatives and is represented as depressed without them I was able to use this film as inspiration.

Another inspiration was "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", the female protagonist is represented as rebellious in her behaviour and her attire was also used as inspiration.