Before ‘Euphoria’, There Was ‘Thirteen’, And Its Director Says TikTok Gets It
deadline.comYears before “Euphoria,” director Catherine Hardwicke had the teenage milieu locked down with her film, Thirteen. The drama centered on honors student Evan Rachel Wood, who meets a new friend (Nikki Reed) who turn her on to a world of sex, drugs, and petty crime.
That tests Wood’s relationship with her mother, Holly Hunter. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2003 and celebrates its 20th anniversary on Sunday. “I like elevating things,” Hardwicke (Twilight, Mafia Mamma) said in a Yahoo!
Entertainment interview. “I wanted you to feel how the hormones are raging and what it feels like to be a kid when everything matters.” Hardwicke was a prolific production designer when she teamed with Reed — then 14, and the daughter of an ex-boyfriend — to write the script for Thirteen in only six days. “We really tried to [show] what it felt like to be a teenager, and just going through all the crazy pressures from the outside world,” Hardwicke says.
Hollywood in the early 2000s was nervous when Hardwicke and Reed shopped their script. “I mean, every studio and every financier said, ‘No, we can’t make it.
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