'Dark Knight Rises' Actress Juno Temple Is A 'Dirty Girl'

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Nobody likes a dirty girl, but count me amongst the growing number who've fallen in love with "[url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/tag/dirty-girl"]Dirty Girl[/url]," director Abe Sylvia's semi-autobiographical movie about two teenage outsiders — Danielle ([url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/451744/workedwith.jhtml"]Juno Temple[/url]), the promiscuous girl in school, and Clarke (newcomer Jeremy Dozier), a loner struggling to hide his homosexuality from his intolerant and increasingly suspicious father (Dwight Yoakim) — who forge an unlikely friendship and set out together on an impromptu road trip of self discovery.

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Temple, soon to be seen in [url="http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/10/03/dark-knight-rises-juno-temple/"]an unspecified role in "The Dark Knight Rises,"[/url] swung by MTV News this week to talk about her work in "Dirty Girl." The actress turns in a dazzling performance as Danielle, someone who begins the movie as a ruthlessly mean-spirited, do-what-it-takes-to-get-your-way kind of gal, but slowly reveals herself to be someone else: a young girl looking to fill a hole in her heart.

"She's a firecracker. She goes on such a journey throughout the movie," Temple told us of her attraction to the character. "You think you know her at the beginning, but you do not at all. No one makes the effort to get to know her. Her family, her friends… well, she doesn't have any friends. No one gives her a chance to really be her, it's like this illusion, which I think she kind of enjoys. Part of it is she wants to intimidate people and she wants people to feel this [way about her], and she thinks she's much more adult than she really is."

Danielle gets a hard dose of reality and realizes she's much closer to her teenage self than she'd ever imagined, a tough lesson that really appealed to Temple as an actress.

"The idea of taking a character on a journey, in playing it, you're getting to know her at the same time she is," she said. "You're showing how important friendship is, especially in those years of your life when you meet someone who really gets you for you and loves you for exactly who you are. Those are the kinds of people you should be friends with, not people who don't get you and don't understand you, that's just going to make you lonely and miserable. When you find that person who makes you complete, that's a really special thing."

"Dirty Girl" hits theaters in limited release today (October 7).

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