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Amara Karan

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	Cowriter Roman Coppola
	Actor, cowriter Jason Schwartzman
	Actor Adrien Brody
	Director Wes Anderson

Doing this film was just beyond what I could have dreamt for really. It was challenging, but it was what I expected, actually. It was really professional, intelligent, thought through, highly prepared work. I think the reason why actors actually get excited at the prospect of working with Wes Anderson is that you are going to be working with someone who has an incredible attention to detail and an incredible sense of vision. I really desire to work with those sorts of people, because I feel like I take pride in my work and I want to work in that sort of way as well. So it really was a dream in that respect.

In a role like this, as an actor, you have the challenge of piecing together a logical background to play this character, play the selections the character takes; they need to be part of some kind of consistent logic. I wanted to underpin the role, because Rita's so enigmatic. When I eventually got the final script that didn't shed much light on what she was like. There's so much unknown and untold about her but there is also so much detail and so much idiosyncracy with her. I wanted to give her actions weight, you know. For myself, I wanted her to have a very clear background and a clear, coherent back story.

Jason Schwartzman and Amara Karan in The Darjeeling Limited
James Hamilton/Courtesy of Fox Searchlight

When I had my first meeting with Wes I put forward my idea. I was also trying to suss out what he was looking for. And I discovered very quickly that he had been looking at her from the boys' point of view, and so he hadn't given a lot of her background much thought. She was what was on the page, a girl that he didn't know very much about. So he actually turned it round and said to me — which I don't think with most of his characters he would have done anyway, he has a very clear idea of what he wants — that I have that leeway to present ideas to him. By the same token he wasn't especially interested in the specifics of what I'd come up with, because really that's part of an actor's process. He is interested in the details that go into the scenes that we're going to film. But I had the pleasure of using my imagination, creating a world for her.

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