Olivia Cooke

I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.