CAST AND CHARACTERS

Interview: Kristen Stewart

Playing the role of Lucy is Kristen Stewart, who embodies the essence of an anxious teenager rebelliousness, beauty and sexual awkwardness.

"Lucy is a very inward person," comments Stewart. "Painting is where she expresses herself.

Kristen Stewart as Lucy

With Carter, she gets her first sense of puppy love, even though he's way too old for her. At first she has romantic expectations, but it's more that she's lost and here's this guy that is there for her and he listens to her. Maybe he can offer some unbiased point of view because he's so far outside of her life, and then she starts falling for him because Adam plays such a charismatic, endearing guy."

"One of the things I really liked about In the Land of Women is that it didn't stereotype or wasn't cliche on teen angst," continues Stewart. "Lucy is like so many of my friends, so many girls I know.She's kind of grooving along being herself then all of a sudden she's like the popular girl and all that attention kind of freaks her out. She doesn't know how to deal with that plus she's got this complicated relationship with her mother that holds a lot of resentment. Carter teaches her a very valuable lesson you can't allow your fears and resentment to inhibit your life."

With regards to capturing on camera the strained relationship between Sarah and Lucy, Kasdan was very deliberate with the blocking, always making sure there were physical objects between Ryan and Stewart, or as one actor approached the other, one was moving away, intensifying the estrangement between mother and daughter.

As Ryan explains, the emotional gulf between Sarah and Lucy is the complete opposite of the effortlessly tender relationship she enjoys with her younger daughter Paige, played by Makenzie Vega."With Paige they have this sort of miraculously easy, close relationship that neither of them have to try at," says Ryan. "They have the same sense of humor, and there's something about Paige that's all-knowing. Sarah doesn't know why it's so easy with one and so difficult with the other daughter. There's this constant kind of confusion and battle ­ she's the same person but somehow different with each of them."

 Golin provides further insight into what can fuel teenage-angst. "Lucy is going through a bit of an identity crisis. She's trying to figure out and come to terms with her womanhood her sexuality and independence from her mother. Lucy's at that age where it's very typical and natural to rebel against her mother and Carter comes along and he's charming, older and she's quite intrigued by him."

Kasdan adds, "Lucy's character is struggling at every moment of her life with a sort of deep confusion, which leads to an enormous amount of fear. It comes from some unfortunate events in her past but things that so many people will be able to relate to. Her fear is not one some external danger, one of betrayal and shame and being made to look like a fool, or not so much a fool as a freak."

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Interview: Makenzie Vega
Makenzie Vega brings irresistible charm to the character of Sarah's youngest daughter, Paige. Poised at the edge of puberty, Paige approaches life with a wide-eyed honesty and stills holds onto the magic of believing her mother is the center of the universe.