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July 22, 2011

Edmond 15-year-old lands movie role

Patty Miller The Edmond Sun

EDMOND — Acting is her passion.

That is what Edmond North sophomore Madi Jolly will tell you, and she is getting the chance to do just that, on the silver screen no less.

Madi has been selected to play the role of Rose Mulberry, the main character’s daughter in the movie “Just Crazy Enough.”

“We auditioned tons of girls for the role of Rose, and Madi Jolly was the most natural and confident in the role,” said Lance McDaniel, director of ‘Just Crazy Enough.’

“Madi also had great chemistry with Dalton Farmer, the boy who plays her brother. Madi is a hard worker and a joy to have working on Just Crazy Enough.’”

“(In the movie) I am a troubled teen with a bad relationship with my dad,” Madi said. “The movie is about how my dad has a twin brother he didn’t know about in an insane asylum, and they get switched up.”

She said her dad and his twin are being played by Chris Kattan. My mom is being played by Susana Gibb.

“We have all gotten so close, and they are such amazing actors and people,” Madi said.

All of the filming is taking place in and around Oklahoma City.

 She found out about the audition through her agent, Magna Talent Agency.

“I got them about two years ago, and they are a great help in finding out about auditions,” Madi said.

She auditioned in person and said she was pretty nervous at the try-out.

She said she was thinking, “This is a good experience and every audition brings me closer to a part I may get in the future, even if I didn’t get that part in particular.

“It was a cold read, which means that they don’t e-mail you an audition piece to memorize. They give you one when you get to the audition, and they let you read through it a few times and take it into the audition with you. I like cold reads better, because they make me much less stressed beforehand.”

Madi said she has never been in a school play because most of them were musicals and she isn’t very musically talented.

“But I have been in many plays at the Edmond Fine Arts Institute, which is a great place to gain experience in the arts.”

“I haven’t been in any drama classes, so I don’t have any teachers that have influenced me in my acting career,” Madi said, “however, I have had a couple of directors of the plays I was in that have inspired me. I have taken some acting classes, with Nuton Productions, and am currently taking classes at Acts Acting Academy.”

Madi said she has wanted to act since she was about 8 years old.

“I started with theater but then changed to film about two years ago because I felt like I could go further in film,” Madi said. “Theater was more of a hobby to me, whereas, I wanted film to be more of a lifestyle.”

Madi, the daughter of Stuart and Marcia Jolly of Edmond, said she likes to paint, but considers it more of a hobby at this time. In addition to taking acting classes at Acts Acting Academy in Oklahoma City, Madi is on the debate and cross country teams.

“I enjoyed karate, where I gained my black belt in tae kwon do last year,” Madi said.

She is also part of the youth group at Waterloo Road Baptist Church.

“I love to write, but I don’t think journalism has a very big place in my future,” Madi added. “My parents think I would be a good lawyer, and I think that sounds like a serious possibility.

“I’m only 15, so what I want to do with my life is going to change a million times, but acting is my passion. If I had the chance to do that for a living, it would be what I would choose, hands down.”



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