❝There was an instant power and intensity and certainty in Jen’s performance. She came in with this great understanding of this character. This is actually a girl whose fierceness comes from a nurturing place, not a conquering place. In her audition we used the scene in which she’s saying good-bye to her mother and her sister and Gale. There’s a line in the scene in which she tells her mother, ‘Don’t cry.’ And just in the way she tells her mom ‘Don’t cry,’ it’s like ‘Don’t you dare cry. Don’t you dare fall apart in this situation.’ In that one little moment, she spoke volumes about this character and her past and her present and her future.❞