Lily Collins interviews
When I found out I was cast, I found out that people were tweeting about me getting cast as their heroine. I know that I'm playing a character in a book that is very popular, but I forget that books have so many fans, that if they don't agree with the casting, it could go terribly wrong. I was so grateful that all these people were tweeting like, 'Oh, we're so excited. We totally see her as Clary and we can't wait to see what she'll do.' I don't know what I would have done if people responded negatively.
I feel the "Mortal Instruments" series is so different, because it's set in New York, it's urban, but it's also got that underground, trance-y feel. It's a series that based on a girl heroine. She's not just a girl that's there for the guy. A lot of girls can relate to her because she's a regular girl who finds out she has these amazing powers and can do more than she expected. I'm in the process of finishing all the books, because I want to make sure to read them over and over and over, just to be able to know the way that Cassandra has written her and to go back and collaborate with Scott. They want me to be involved in it, which is something that not a lot of people at this stage can say-that filmmakers want their advice.