Photo: Brett Roedel/HuluParis Jacksonis leaving her mark on the teen sex comedy genre with her latest role.The actress, 23, tells PEOPLE she had a “relatively normal high school experience” as she reflects on her own adolescent years while chatting about her new Hulu comedySex Appeal, premiering on the platform Jan. 14. “At least ninth grade was normal and then after,that’s when it got weird,” says Jackson.She credits the guidance of her family members, noting that she “really looked up to” her older brotherPrince Jacksonwhen it came to academics. “I was really lucky to have that,” Jackson adds.“I have a cousin who I look up to when it comes to the music stuff. He’s this really cool grunge hippie dude and he makes his own music,” she explains. “He got me intoNirvanaand theCranberriesand a bunch of really cool music.“Jackson looked to her musical peers once again for inspiration with herSex Appealrole as Danica, a young metalhead who’s described in the film as a “mysterious sex goddess,” dispensing the kind of wisdom you won’t learn in a typical high school sex education class.Brett Roedel/Hulu"I heard that she really liked death metal, so I just acted like my death metal friends,” she notes.TheWiltedartist says she’s “pretty much” as comfortable talking about sex as her onscreen counterpart, who advises the film’s leading lady Avery (Mika Abdalla) to practicedoing kegels, explaining that she needs to “clinch the cooter.““I thought it was f— hilarious,” she says, admitting that she had no problem with any of her scripted lines and pushed it even further when it came time to improvise.RELATED VIDEO: Paris Jackson Experiences ‘Auditory Hallucinations’ from Paparazzi Encounters: ‘It’s Standard PTSD’“They were like, ‘Just talk because this is just going to be your introduction and so ad-lib, improv, whatever,'” Jackson recalls. “And I tried to make it as raunchy as possible just to make the person behind the camera start laughing, and it worked.“See Paris Jackson inSex Appeal, debuting January 14 on Hulu.
Photo: Brett Roedel/Hulu
Paris Jacksonis leaving her mark on the teen sex comedy genre with her latest role.The actress, 23, tells PEOPLE she had a “relatively normal high school experience” as she reflects on her own adolescent years while chatting about her new Hulu comedySex Appeal, premiering on the platform Jan. 14. “At least ninth grade was normal and then after,that’s when it got weird,” says Jackson.She credits the guidance of her family members, noting that she “really looked up to” her older brotherPrince Jacksonwhen it came to academics. “I was really lucky to have that,” Jackson adds.“I have a cousin who I look up to when it comes to the music stuff. He’s this really cool grunge hippie dude and he makes his own music,” she explains. “He got me intoNirvanaand theCranberriesand a bunch of really cool music.“Jackson looked to her musical peers once again for inspiration with herSex Appealrole as Danica, a young metalhead who’s described in the film as a “mysterious sex goddess,” dispensing the kind of wisdom you won’t learn in a typical high school sex education class.Brett Roedel/Hulu"I heard that she really liked death metal, so I just acted like my death metal friends,” she notes.TheWiltedartist says she’s “pretty much” as comfortable talking about sex as her onscreen counterpart, who advises the film’s leading lady Avery (Mika Abdalla) to practicedoing kegels, explaining that she needs to “clinch the cooter.““I thought it was f— hilarious,” she says, admitting that she had no problem with any of her scripted lines and pushed it even further when it came time to improvise.RELATED VIDEO: Paris Jackson Experiences ‘Auditory Hallucinations’ from Paparazzi Encounters: ‘It’s Standard PTSD’“They were like, ‘Just talk because this is just going to be your introduction and so ad-lib, improv, whatever,'” Jackson recalls. “And I tried to make it as raunchy as possible just to make the person behind the camera start laughing, and it worked.“See Paris Jackson inSex Appeal, debuting January 14 on Hulu.
Paris Jacksonis leaving her mark on the teen sex comedy genre with her latest role.
The actress, 23, tells PEOPLE she had a “relatively normal high school experience” as she reflects on her own adolescent years while chatting about her new Hulu comedySex Appeal, premiering on the platform Jan. 14. “At least ninth grade was normal and then after,that’s when it got weird,” says Jackson.
She credits the guidance of her family members, noting that she “really looked up to” her older brotherPrince Jacksonwhen it came to academics. “I was really lucky to have that,” Jackson adds.
“I have a cousin who I look up to when it comes to the music stuff. He’s this really cool grunge hippie dude and he makes his own music,” she explains. “He got me intoNirvanaand theCranberriesand a bunch of really cool music.”
Jackson looked to her musical peers once again for inspiration with herSex Appealrole as Danica, a young metalhead who’s described in the film as a “mysterious sex goddess,” dispensing the kind of wisdom you won’t learn in a typical high school sex education class.
Brett Roedel/Hulu
“I heard that she really liked death metal, so I just acted like my death metal friends,” she notes.
TheWiltedartist says she’s “pretty much” as comfortable talking about sex as her onscreen counterpart, who advises the film’s leading lady Avery (Mika Abdalla) to practicedoing kegels, explaining that she needs to “clinch the cooter.”
“I thought it was f— hilarious,” she says, admitting that she had no problem with any of her scripted lines and pushed it even further when it came time to improvise.
RELATED VIDEO: Paris Jackson Experiences ‘Auditory Hallucinations’ from Paparazzi Encounters: ‘It’s Standard PTSD’
“They were like, ‘Just talk because this is just going to be your introduction and so ad-lib, improv, whatever,'” Jackson recalls. “And I tried to make it as raunchy as possible just to make the person behind the camera start laughing, and it worked.”
See Paris Jackson inSex Appeal, debuting January 14 on Hulu.
source: people.com
