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Mia Wasikowska: "It's more fun to play the baddie"

The actress talks horror & mentors

Mia Wasikowska commands the screen in Stoker, the new psychological thriller/horror from South Korean director Park Chan-Wook.

She plays India, a reclusive teen who is compulsively drawn to her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), a mysterious figure who appears in her home after her father's sudden death.

The film, Chan-Wook's English language debut, co-stars Nicole Kidman as India's neurotic mother but it is Mia who really holds the camera.

The storyline plays out over a series of tantalizingly enigmatic scenes that are threatening in a way that's hard to define. There's a sequence, repeated throughout the film, of a spider crawling up Mia's leg. And a motif of her opening a freezer to discover unknown horrors. The lines between reality and imagination are blurred, making the slow-burning plot all the more sinister.

Mia's character is mesmerising; she's at once oddly childish and unnerving. It's essentially a coming-of-age drama, albeit with a very dark twist.

When we meet with Mia to discuss the film, she says she revelled in playing such a sinister character, branding it "the most dangerous role I've ever played."

She also relished the opportunity of working with Nicole on the movie, describing her fellow Australian actress as a mentor-like figure who was "very sweet, kind and open about her experience of working on film."

Watch the full interview with Mia, below.

Stoker is out in UK cinemas today