When Samara Weaving read the script for her latest film, Eenie Meanie , a heist thriller also starring Karl Glusman, Andy Garcia, and Steve Zahn, she knew that she had to be involved in the project. She swiftly auditioned for the role of Edie—a former getaway driver pulled back into a life of crime by her first love—slipping quite naturally into her character’s tumultuous emotional landscape. The real challenge? Weaving had never actually driven a car before: not to the supermarket, or even to the mall as a teenager in Canberra, Australia.

“I didn’t know how to drive and I totally lied to everyone; I’d never been behind a wheel,” she says casually over the phone from her home in Los Angeles. But she was determined: “Usually, if I’m a bit scared of a role, I should do it.”

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