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From Gossip Girl to the big screen, you’ve been expanding into a lot of different movies lately. What attracted you to this particular script?

LM: Well, the character. I love to break down and see where I can relate to somebody and find the humanity in them, and I want to care about my character. It was not easy with Rebecca to say the least, but I think that if you track how she is, if you track her actions they’re always motivated by something internal and obviously not based in reality at all.

So I thought it was really interesting, and I also think that it’s a movie and a film track that most people can relate to. It’s about friends, not necessarily even just roommates. I mean they’re friends and it goes terribly wrong because one person is really invested in the friendship and becomes unhealthily attached to her friend. So I think a lot of people have been there, probably not to this extreme, but I know that I’ve had friends that are just a little bit too nosy and needy and in your space and in your business.

How was this role in The Roommate similar and/or different from your role as Blair on Gossip Girl?

LM: It couldn’t have been more different. The entire experience altogether was different, but the character, she is from a different place. She has a different background, different parents. You know Rebecca has a history of having a mental disorder. It’s not at all the same as what I play day to day on my show, which is a pleasure to break from that and do something different, but it’s also so incredibly different from who I am as a person as well.

She’s not making any decisions based on reality. She doesn’t find pleasure in pleasurable things. She only does anything, including interact with anybody physically or verbally, to gain something for herself, and she uses her intelligence, her sexuality to gain control of other people. Meanwhile she doesn’t have any control of her own mind, so obviously it’s a very far cry from what I do on the show.

Going from those two extremes, what type of role would you like to take on next?

LM: I think that the best part about my job is that I can do different things all the time. I would never want to do the same thing twice, so [I’d neither want to play a role like Rebecca or Blair in the future]. I would like to do something new and completely fresh for myself. I never want to be bored.

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