You might recognize
actress Kacey Rohl from two very different projects.
"They're similar in that they feel really guilty for deaths that
aren't really their fault," she tells omg!. And off-screen, they were
both a lot of fun for the up-and-coming starlet to make.
"Flicka: Country Pride," which co-stars Clint Black and his wife Lisa
Hartman Black, was especially memorable because it required Rohl to
ride a horse for the first time.
Her character, Kelly, takes over as the focus of the story that began with the 1941 novel My Friend Flicka,
and has included a TV series and several films, always with a young
girl (or boy) who loves horseback riding on Flicka at its heart.
"I
never thought I'd want to do that," Rohl says. "I grew up in a city, and
there's not really any sort of connection to farm life in my life or
equestrian stuff, but I'm a total daredevil, so when I saw it, I was
like, 'Yes, this must happen.'" First, of course, she had to learn to
look like a pro in the saddle.
"They sort of just chucked me in there,"
explains Rohl, who now splits her time between Vancouver and L.A. "[The
training] was two weeks, and we did pretty basic stuff for the first
couple of days, and then we would go over ground poles, and then we
would move them up slightly, and then by the end of the first week we
were jumping.
" Rohl ended up riding every day for about 20 days of
shooting. While she hasn't hit the trails since then, the actress notes
that she's planning to do just that with some of the girls from the film
soon.
Rohl and Flicka share the screen. (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) |
| Rohl's director was '80s rocker Michael Damian. (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) |
Rohl became close with everyone involved in the film, and really bonded
with her director Michael Damian — yes, the Michael Damian who played
Danny Romalotti on "The Young and the Restless"! As you might remember,
Damian also had a hit in 1989 with a cover of the David Essex song "Rock On,"
which was very typical of the totally awesome '80s, but is totally
cheesy if you listen to it now! It's a song that Rohl knows well.
"We
razzed [Damian] so much, every time we walked onto the set," she laughs.
"In the dance scene, the dance that Max and I are doing are his dance
moves from the music video.
And we all had it on our iPods, and we were
rocking out." At least Damian seemed to have a sense of humor about his
rock 'n' roll days. "He gave us all signed CDs at the wrap, so we can
listen to it whenever we please," she jokes. (Fun fact: Rohl is also
musical. She's played the ukulele since elementary school!)
The Canadian cutie, who admires Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet, Cate
Blanchett, and Jodie Foster, has been working toward a starring role in
a movie for most of her life.
"My dad is a film director and my mom's a
playwright, so I sort of just grew up around [show business]," she
reveals. "I don't remember a specific moment where like the light bulb
went off, but when I was 2 or 3, I was onstage at my mom's rehearsals
doing Shakespeare — I was weird.
It was just a natural progression."
Rohl studied acting during her high school years with acting coach
Andrew McIlroy, whose students have also included "Glee's" Cory
Monteith, and began going on auditions. She won the "Flicka" role last
summer, and is now taking some much-needed time off. But the actress,
who's also appeared on "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour," "Fringe," and
"Supernatural," would love to take on a funny role in the future —
particularly since a lot of sci-fi and cop dramas film in her hometown
of Vancouver. "Some good sort of yuck-yuck comedy would be awesome," she
says.
Check out the scene where Rohl's character meets Flicka in this clip from "Flicka: Country Pride."
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