'I found her to be similar to Melissa’s character in the way that we both had a really tough exterior.

Once in character, though, Crystal needed to 'always be frowning,' she said. On the set, the young actress describes a much warmer and more inviting environment than she was expecting. My mom picked up the phone and was like, ‘You got it!’ I freaked out, but I was trying to not freak out too much because I was driving.' 'We were so excited.'Īnd, Peterson recalled, 'I was actually learning how to drive at the time, so I was at the wheel. 'I remember just screaming in the car,' Peterson's mother, Sarah Corley, said. As we were driving home, we got the call that I got the part.' 'And the second time, I met with Melissa and Ben Falcone, and I got to improv with Melissa, which was really cool.

'The first time, I met with the casting director and maybe one of the producers,' Peterson said. The agency submitted her tape to the studio, and Peterson got selected to come in for a live audition. 'But it is really fun to be a totally different person. I think it’s more of a challenge. I would be bored if I was playing characters who were like me. It would just be me being me on camera.' 'I've been getting more auditions for 'mean girl' roles, which I think is funny. I don’t consider myself a mean person,' she said. The character Crystal, though, is not at all like the bubbly actress who plays her. The young actress can be seen in the trailer, delivering a tough, deadpan line, 'Buy my brownies or I'll kill you.' Peterson, a Carolina Day School junior, plays Crystal in the upcoming Universal Studios film 'The Boss,' starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell. At 14, she signed with local talent agency Screen Artists Talent, and just two years later she knows what it's like to walk the red carpet at a Hollywood movie premiere. Eva Peterson has always known she wanted to act.Īt a children's acting summer camp, at the age of 5, Peterson landed a role as a goose, and 'that's where it all began,' she joked.

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