Eden Leone transcript
05/08/11

>>EDEN: My little seed began as a young child when my parents would read to me. Both my parents were kind enough to read to me. I'd lean towards my dad reading because he'd do different voices. Always good. Took to reading [something] well. I liked it. But I also liked the adaptations into film. So, right now my combination is with literacy of reading and also how it's betrayed on film, how that shows more or less what people are expecting. And it also gets into the teaching and writing.

>>INTERVIEWER: So, would you tell me more about the kinds of books your parents got you into?

>>EDEN: He started with the plain children's books. I can't fully remember the names of them because it's been a while. I remember one with a lady with a teacup, and she'd have one teacup and then she won more people and people come stand at her house and keep adding and adding. And then later on I got into mystery stories. [List of books, unsure of spelling]. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys--equal opportunity right there. They had a collection of the older versions of it and then in the late 80s I read the new version. It wasn't quite the same, but it was interesting to have a female protagonist doing all these really cool things and I'm like I can't wait 'til I'm 18 so I can do all these.

>>GUY: How many times have you presented on mystery related stories?

>>EDEN: Quite a bit.

[Laughs]

I try to refocus my studies to somehow deal with that because I really love that genre, both because of memories and because can you figure who did it before the end of the book, or do you break down and read the last few pages anyways.

>>INTERVIEWER: That was helpful. Thank you!