![]() “Oddly enough, it’s a difficult part to play,” he says. Sara’s performance went beyond Hyams’ expectations. “I knew she was a terrific actress, except that’s all I knew,” Hyams says by phone from Pittsburgh, where he’s completing pre-production on another Van Damme movie, “Sudden Death.” “Timecop” director Peter Hyams cast Sara as Van Damme’s damsel in distress after meeting with her a few times. “But I did climb up that roof and hang off that antenna-that was me!” though I don’t think I’m going to become a Lady Van Damme,” Sara says glancing down at her delicate frame. ![]() ![]() 1 at the box office for the two weeks of its release, she got a chance to test her courage, which inspired her to get her pilot’s license. Gracious despite the fact she’s not done packing, Sara sees both “Timecop” and the recently finished “The Maddening” as welcome departures from her usual roles.įor “Timecop,” which has been No. Petersburg, Russia, to begin filming “Bullet to Beijing” with Michael Caine, Sara finally seems poised for the spotlight. Interviewed just after completing a fashion shoot for British Esquire and mere hours before she hopping on a plane to St. “Thank God for ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ for if it weren’t for that no one would remember me!,” Sara says with a laugh, before pausing and adding, “But I think I haven’t been ready (for stardom), I think I’m much more equipped to handle it now than I was a few years ago.” People just don’t see me that way-I usually play the ingenue, the leading lady, and so often the second-banana role is really great.”ĭespite the fact that Sara has been steadily busy over the years, she confesses that the elusiveness of stardom has been frustrating. Sidney Lumet had enough confidence in her to cast her as a young Hasidic woman in “Stranger Among Us,” a role for which Sara says she “worked really hard to get.” “It was a character role,” she continues, “and I don’t ever get to audition for character roles.
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