The Descendants
Woodley plays Alexandra King in the Alexander Payne adaptation of the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. As her father struggles to sell a land estate and save his fortune and her mother lies in a coma, the troubled 17-year-old comes to terms with her dysfunctional family.
George [Clooney] told me the night of that scene that the key to being drunk is to pretend like you’re not drunk. When you’re drunk and someone says, ‘Ha, you’re wasted,’ you say ‘I’m not drunk — I’m not even buzzed’ even though you’re belligerent.