Brittany Snow Judges Her Characters, from 'The Hunting Wives' to 'Pitch Perfect'

The character that stands out to me as a walking red flag

is definitely Sophie from The Hunting Wives.

That child was very much always in the bedroom

while she was out drinking and driving.

Drinking and driving?

Like, come on girl, what's happening?

I'm Brittany Snow and welcome to my Safe Space

to judge my past characters

and their questionable decisions.

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I am excited to see some of my past roles.

I don't really go back in time that often.

I feel nostalgic, nervous,

and I know that they've made a lot of really bad decisions,

so I can't wait to dissect that.

This is Hairspray from 2007 and I play Amber Von Tussle.

Amber is a red flag.

She's a brat.

She's spoiled.

She thinks the world revolves around her

and she was delicious to play.

Oh, and it's totally not true about her

and the entire football team.

I mean, please, anybody can get grass stains

all over their back.

Amber, stop it.

I have not seen that in so long.

Amber needs to hear

that she is not the star of the whole world

and that she's not the best dancer

on the Corny Collins Show.

She is not as pretty as she thinks she is

and her mom might be a psychopath.

Amber's fatal flaw is that she's jealous and she's scared

and she's very insecure, and I think she knows

that she's not the best dancer anymore,

and so she's trying to put other people down

so she can build herself up.

Classic villain.

Oh my God, I can still remember those dance moves.

That's how much it's drilled into our head.

I think Velma is the real villain here

if I do have to say so myself.

And I do think that if her mom just backed off of her,

she would be a different type of girl.

This is season one of The Hunting Wives

and I play Sophie O'Neill.

Sophie is a red flag.

I hope that we love to hate her or love to love her

even though she's a red flag.

You could pick any scene

and it'll be a glaringly orange red flag.

Jamie had a thing for Abby, but...

What, what the fuck does that mean?

Wait, do you think that Jamie had something to do with this?

What I worked on with Rebecca

to sort of create her character

is that she's always been a little bit dangerous

and she's always been sort of a wild child,

but she keeps herself in a box really tightly.

Between the Xanax and the tequila and the beer,

there's not a lot left and...

It's okay.

Everything's gonna be okay.

She's actually afraid of herself.

She's not necessarily even an alcoholic.

She's afraid of what she does when she drinks

and she's afraid what happens to her

when she makes decisions that aren't necessarily safe.

The Margot meeting is really just opening up that box

that she's tried to keep herself in.

Sophie's Boston therapist probably has dropped her by now.

Oh, I just never remembered that.

There's a scene that's cut and I'm trying to tell them

that I'm drinking again and I'm doing bad things.

I guess Rebecca just wanted me to be a loose cannon

at that point because I did think when we were filming,

like at least she's telling her therapist,

but now she's not.

It's gone.

Right now, I want you to do donuts in the parking lot.

No. Come on.

You know you want it.

I don't even know how to drive a stick shift.

I'll teach you.

It's easy.

Come on.

I think it was only a matter of time

before Sophie reverted back to her true self.

I feel like Graham was keeping her in that place on purpose

and she was dying to break out.

You just need a little help.

I think that's why it's sort of funny to people

that it doesn't take her much convincing.

You ask Sophie two times to do something

and she's gonna do it.

She wants to do it anyway and I think that driving scene

really shows that she just needs a scapegoat.

There is a point at the very beginning of the show that she,

I think, is trying to go back to center a little bit

and go back to her husband and go back to her son.

But she's under Margot's spell

and I do think that she falls in love with her.

So she's beckoned to a darker side

of something that's already in her.

She wanted me to come let you know

that everything's gonna be okay.

Right? It's all good.

You don't need to freak.

Alright?

It's very sad when she hits him

because she doesn't really want to,

she thinks that he's pulling a gun out.

People miss that she is backing up,

she's trying to get away.

But when a guy comes running at you

with what you think is a gun, what would you do?

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I wish she wouldn't have killed him, but then, you know,

it doesn't set up for anything fun season two.

So I'm sort of glad that she...

I mean, I don't condone murder, but in a show I do.

'Cause now we have so many things to explore next season.

I always try to play all of my characters

like they are coming from,

in their mind, the best intentions,

because they have to convince themselves to do these things.

And so I would hope that I play Sophie like that,

that she does have redeemable qualities.

I don't think a lot of people think

that she is in season one,

but I do think in season two

when she starts to make decisions

to keep the safety of her son, I hope,

I think it'll feel a lot more redeemable.

This is Pitch Perfect and I play Chloe Beale.

Chloe is a green flag, like a light green, a pastel green.

I would describe Chloe in a positive light as effervescent

and someone who is optimistic,

and then negatively someone who has absolutely

no personal boundaries and cannot read a room

to save her life.

You're so young.

You can sing.

Don't!

How high does your belt go?

My what? Oh my God.

You have to audition for the Bellas.

Chloe definitely lacks boundaries.

This is a part of the description

of not being able to read a room.

She just doesn't find anything wrong with interacting

with someone in a shower,

especially someone she does not know.

That was sort of like the description

that I made for Chloe in my mind,

is someone who just really saw the best in people

no matter what and it turned into something else.

But it really came from a place of loving her body

and everyone else's.

She definitely had a priority.

Her priority was getting the Barden Bellas to the Worlds.

Why did I wanna say World Series?

It was definitely not baseball.

Gosh, I haven't even seen the movie in so long.

I forgot the ICCA championships.

What are we doing here?

We're bonding.

You seem so tense.

Do you need a back rub?

No, I haven't seen this in so long.

But I feel like this retreat is really gonna let us

discover everything about each other.

Is that right?

You know, one of my biggest regrets is

that I didn't do enough experimenting in college.

You're so weird.

I think she's just like a free spirit.

Everything could be sort of seen as like posed to Beca,

but I also think she's just saying stuff

that's popping in her mind and she's next to all these girls

and she's like,

Man, I really should have experimented more.

I think it's time that we go on

with the next chapter of our lives.

It's time for us to move on, you know?

I mean we're always gonna be there for each other.

Wow.

I am proud of Chloe by the end of the movie.

I think she sort of understands that she has to leave

the idea of the Barden Bellas behind

and I think she sort of holds

onto the comradery of the group

as like an identity.

And she's geared to be her own person

without this group mentality that wins,

and she feels like that's herself.

By the end, I think she realizes

that she can be her own person,

and so that is something that I feel like a lot of people

in their twenties go through.

My advice would be

to take just like a little break from guys,

you know, maybe just like go do some experimenting.

The guys never really work out for her and I hope that she

still has her very strange, quirky, optimistic attitude.

This is John Tucker Must Die from 2006

and I play Kate Spencer.

Kate is a beige flag.

She doesn't really have a good strong identity yet,

especially in the beginning of this movie.

I think she's sort of coerced into all these ideas

because she wants to fit in.

Throughout the movie,

she gets a little bit more of her footing,

but I wouldn't necessarily feel like

she's a green flag right away

because she's not holding down any morals or ideas.

It seems to me that if a guy treats you like that-

You'd break up with him, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But John would have another girlfriend in a second.

No, I didn't say break up.

I'd get even.

This is so serious.

This was the most serious movie that I could ever imagine.

I definitely think Kate's a girl's girl.

I think so much so

that she doesn't really have that many friends.

She's sort of moved around a lot, I remember.

And so her mom is her best friend

and she's desperately wanting connection

and wanting to be put in a situation where she feels united.

And I think that's why she goes along with this plan.

She wants like justice.

Try this, it's really good.

Chocolate on chocolate. Oh yeah.

Chocolate is the John Tucker of all snack food.

We were actually eating all of this chocolate

when we were doing this scene and it was so much.

We were having a full slumber party situation

where we didn't leave the set.

I don't know why we thought that was a good idea.

Like, I'm sure a therapist would have a field day

with this next sentence,

but I feel like I'm watching like a person that I know

but I'm not watching me.

Like I just, it's so, I'm so little and my face is like...

I just wanna give her a hug.

I think Kate's unfortunately really insecure

and I think she's really shy

and I think that she doesn't think

that she can pull this off.

I mean, a lot of that was actually improv

because I do feel like Kate and I were one at that moment,

and I feel like she just doesn't wanna lose these friends.

And so she's desperate enough to do anything,

which is not a green flag.

If she had just a little bit more confidence in herself,

she would be able to stand up for herself a little bit more.

Right after this movie, my boyfriend at the time,

we were on a break, so I won't say he was cheating on me.

We were on like a Ross and Rachel break,

but this girl that he was cheating on me with

and I ended up getting each other's numbers

and we showed up at his door after John Tucker Must Die

because I have no other good ideas.

And he looked at us like, Now what?

And I hadn't thought about what we were gonna say

or what we were gonna do afterwards

and so it didn't feel as good as the movie.

And then we left and we were like, That was weird, right?

Like we're never gonna talk again. So why did we do that?

So I have schemed that one time and I don't recommend it.

It's really weird.

This is The Beast in Me from 2025 and I play Nina Jarvis.

Nina is definitely the most complicated flag in this

and I can't say exactly why

'cause people haven't seen the show yet,

but she's like a multicolored flag

because I think she does everything

with the right intentions.

But a lot of people would argue

that it's not for the best intentions.

I know what I played it as

and I know what her intentions were,

but people can decide for themselves.

You strike me as someone who's very ethical,

but I mean, I'm not naive.

I know the book that people wanna read.

I just hope you won't be disappointed.

By what?

The truth.

I'm welcoming the onslaught of people

that are gonna judge this character.

I can't wait.

I feel like all the characters that I've played

really set up this character well

because at face value she seems just like the cute wife

and maybe she is, maybe she's not.

I think people are gonna be genuinely surprised by Nina

in all the best ways.

You do find out later in the story that she is not rich

and she doesn't come from this world.

And I think that's a really important note

that infuses her decisions.

This is Someone Great from 2019 and I play Blair Helms.

Blair is a beige,

slightly with like a green hue to it, flag.

Somewhere in the middle.

[Together] Ooh, muah.

Oh, muah.

That was good.

Well I think that she is a sort of red flag,

the fact that she's cheating on her boyfriend.

So we all are aware of that.

I mean if you really want me to stop, I'll stop.

Don't stop.

But I do think that once you see Alex Moffat's character,

you kind of understand

that their relationship is a little bit loveless.

Many women in their twenties,

they feel like they need to get married by a certain time

and have kids and, you know,

they go for the guy that is on paper the good idea.

And I think that's what she feels like she needs to uphold.

And so she finally stands up for what she wants.

I do think that Blair is a very good friend,

although when we were filming I was very concerned

that Blair was sleeping with Jenny's college crush.

I kept asking all the girls like,

Do you think that she's a good friend if she does this?

Like are you sure it's not gonna be weird?

And everyone's like, No, it's college, who cares?

And so I do think when she got her friend's blessing,

I do think that she's a good friend

because she wouldn't do that

behind her friend's back necessarily.

This is Murdaugh: Death in the Family from 2025

and I play Mandy Matney.

Mandy is a green flag. She really is.

She has the best of intentions,

she stands up for what's right.

She does everything the right way

and not necessarily the easy way.

I think that she's a woman that we can all look up to,

someone who really spearheads justice in this story.

Paul's dad, Alex, he's got a lot going on.

Another printout, take it outta my paycheck.

Why does a lawyer have eight LLCs and counting,

one called Carolina Jelly Balls?

I mean, one of the most invaluable assets

of playing this character was that Mandy was there on set

and Mandy and I became friends,

which although intimidating was also really beneficial

because I could ask her questions

and get an essence of who she was

without doing an imitation.

Her morals are so intact all the time.

She really stands up

and is so steadfast in what she believes.

She goes up against a lot of adversity.

Did the Murdaughs tell you not to talk to me?

And she always tries to do what's right,

which most of the time is not something

that works out in her favor

because she's a woman in a really tough field.

This is X from 2022 and I play Bobby-Lynne Parker.

Bobby-Lynne is a green flag.

I think she has a green flag.

I loved playing a character

that led with honesty and confidence.

I think a lot of people would think her line of work

is not a green flag, but I think she does it

in the most intelligent, entrepreneurial way.

She wasn't afraid to be proud of that.

Everybody likes sex. It's a gas.

We're just not afraid to admit it.

Queer, straight, black, white...

It's all disco.

I miss that Southern accent.

Every time we were doing Hunting Wives, I was like,

Oh, I miss having a Southern accent.

I think she's right.

I give her props for leading with what she loves

and I do feel like she's maybe one of the only characters

in this that went into it with the right intentions.

This is The Pacifier from 2005 and I play Zoe Plummer.

You know, at first thought I thought she was a green flag

because I was a child when I did this movie

and then I thought about it

and actually she's not a green flag.

She is like a soft pink color flag.

She has a lot to learn.

She's a kid, but she's sort of a mean girl.

She's going through a lot.

It's okay to talk about your dad, Zoe.

Oh, I'm so small.

I don't know, I just,

I wanna be strong for Lulu and Tyler and Peter and Seth

and my mom.

Vin Diesel, he's such a gentle giant.

He's so sweet.

That is really sad.

I was such a baby.

She finally does let him in

and I think that it is a green flag

that she can get in touch with her emotions

and actually finally be honest about the fact

that she has been putting up a wall

because she's scared and trying so hard to be strong.

And I think a lot of kids can probably relate to that.

When they lose a parent,

they feel like if there's any cracks in their armor,

then they're letting their family down,

and so I'm proud of her for letting big old Vin Diesel in.

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Sophie.

Mandy Matney is the most healed.

I feel like all of my characters are redeemable.

I can't even, yeah, none of them are like serial killers.

Not yet. I can't wait.

One day I get to play a serial killer.

I think all of them are good people,

but I think Chloe's a really good person.

I mean, I guess Amber's sort of a bad person until the end.

We don't do racism, Amber, bad, bad person.

I would say Chloe and Kate.

Mandy or Nina? Actually, Nina.

Zoe, because I was a kid.

Sophie. Yeah.

She really pissed me off every day I would get the scripts

and I was like, Are you kidding me? What?

How am I supposed to make this work?

She's just leaving her son.

Just going out drinking.

Sophie and also probably Bobby-Lynne.

I think that she chose that line of work for various reasons

that we don't talk about, but are there.

I think Chloe definitely, that girl is just one big hug.

The end, end Kate, not beginning Kate,

but maybe like the person that Kate becomes

in John Tucker Must Die, maybe.

Yeah, none of the other ones actually.

Thank you so much for having me, Self.

It has been so strange and amazing and nostalgic

to go back and think about all my characters

and their decisions

and I really appreciate this therapy session

that we had together.

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