Angourie Rice Interview: Honor Society
Released on Paramount+ July 29, Honor Society is a film that challenges audiences to expect the unexpected. High school senior, Honor Rose (Angourie Rice, Spider-Man: Homecoming) has spent her entire life crafting a well-thought-out and elaborate plan to get into the college of her dreams. However, after her guidance counselor considers recommending another student, Honor concocts a scheme to take her opponents out of the running.
Written by David A. Goodman and directed by Oran Zegman, Honor Society also features Amy Keum (Evil) as Kennedy Smith,Christopher Mintz-Plasse ( as Mr. Calvin, and Armani Jackson (Grey's Anatomy) as Travis Biggins.
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Actress Angourie Rice chats with Screen Rant about getting into Honor's mindset and working with the director to craft her character arc.
Screen Rant: I wanted to start off by just talking about Honor. I loved this character so much, personally. I really admire the ambitious, driven kind of female characters who will do whatever needs to get done. What was it like playing a character like that?
Angourie Rice: I loved it, it was so much fun. I mean, there's so many qualities to Honor that I admire and so many that I think she maybe uses in a way that are not entirely nice or good. But she learns along the way how to kind of harness these incredibly strong qualities about herself and to apply them in friendships and to kind of let down her guard and open up to different relationships in her life. It was just so much fun to just play that entire arc, because I think she has a great character arc.
Screen Rant: She's pretty morally gray at the beginning, which is another thing that I loved, and you don't really know whether to
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