PARENTHOOD -- "Forced Family Fun" - Pictured: Alexandra Daddario as Rachael -- Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC
Alexandra Daddario is joining the cast of Parenthood tonight and from what she tells EntertainmentHeartbeat.com, her character Rachel is there to cause a little bit of friction.
“I’m the new receptionist at Adam (Peter Krause) and Crosby’s (Dax Shepard) music studio,” Daddario offers. “I definitely have a unique sense of style. I wear pretty revealing clothing, which causes tension at the office.”
Daddario also promises Rachel will add stress to Adam and Kristina’s (Monica Potter) relationship. Still, she swears Rachel won’t be completely unlikable.
“I think she’s a pretty normal girl. I think she’s in the music business for the right reasons,” she explains. “Her revealing outfits are what she thinks she should be doing in the business. I don’t think she’s as hate-able as I could have made her, but she definitely has her problems.”
Though Daddario isn’t sure how long she’ll be on Parenthood, she knows she’ll be on for a number of episodes. Still, that TV gig isn’t hindering her healthy film career.
The actress is probably best known for her role as Annabeth Chase in the action adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief and if plans go as they appear, Daddario will reprise that part in the sequel Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Sea of Monsters.
The pic is scheduled for a March, 27th, 2013 release date, but Daddario is just hoping the filming will begin fairly soon.
“We haven’t heard definitively yes or no that it’s going to go,” she stresses. “You never really know until you’re there on set, so I can’t say for sure. I know that they’re in development at the moment and I would love to go back.”
Meanwhile, Daddario has just wrapped production on a horror pic, Leatherface 3D, another installment in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
“We shot down in Louisiana in July and August. It was a crazy, fun shoot,” she insists. “I’m excited about it. It’s definitely going to be a fun and scary movie.”
It’s also heading down a new path from the horror Texas Chainsaw flicks.
“It’s more of an action film, mystery in a way,” she says. “It sort of deviates from that horror structure, but it’s really exciting to be part of such an iconic and well-known series.”
Still, there will be blood she assures…plenty of it, along with guts and wielding objects directed toward the camera for that maximum 3D experience.
“That’s par for the course. There is a lot of running, a lot of screaming, a lot of blood and speeding chainsaws right in your face.”
I’m so there.
Leatherface 3D is set for release October 5th, 2012.
Parenthood airs Tuesdays, 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.