有著姣好的氣質、銳利的眼神、可塑性極高的外型,童星出身的吉娜·馬隆至今已出道20多年,演出超過20部電影,類型橫跨恐怖、古裝、經典文學以及奇幻電影等,可算是好萊塢新一代女星中實力強勁的演技派。
馬隆的童年生活可謂是居無定所,她由同性戀母親及其女友一同撫養長大,在她9歲前就搬過27次家,豐富的生活經歷為馬隆從事演員這一職業打下了基礎。1996年,12歲的馬隆就憑借著電影處女作《卡羅萊納的私生女》提名美國獨立精神獎的最佳新人獎以及美國演員工會的突出表演獎。之后,馬隆陸續出演了《繼母》、《冷山》、《死亡幻覺》、《饑餓游戲》、《性本惡》等多部電影。這些豐富的表演經歷讓馬隆的演技日趨成熟,也讓她漸漸走入觀眾的視野。除了影視演出,馬隆還參與百老匯音樂劇的表演,出過自己的同名專輯,可謂演唱俱佳。如今,片約滿檔的馬隆正值事業高峰期,有望躋身一線女星行列。

I’m a total weirdo,” Jena Malone confesses.
It’s been a pretty mental year for the selfdescribed weirdo. She shot six films, toured her second album, held her first solo photography show in L.A., and turned 30. In recent months, she’s been seen sporting a fiery red hairdo, reportedly for her upcoming role in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice as Carrie Kelly, the female Robin from Frank Miller’s 1)noncanonical 2)graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns. And that’s in addition to her axewielding 3)badass Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and its sequel due out next year, as well as her scenestealing turn as a reformed 4)junkie in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 5)gonzo 6)neo-noir Inherent Vice.
Malone first met Anderson by chance over a decade ago following the release of the 7)cult hit Donnie Darko. She was just 17, and they ran into each other at The Apple Pan, an iconic‘50s-era burger joint in L.A.
“To be honest, I didn’t even recognize him,” Malone recalls. “He was bearded, and I was so young. We talked about movies and had this great conversation, and at the end he was like, ‘It was nice to meet you…I’m Paul.’ And I thought, Wait…is that Paul Thomas Anderson? I had a big fan girl moment, and thought I’d never see him again.”

Then, last year, she received a call from Anderson: “Hey, do you remember when we met over ten years ago?” He cast her as Hope, an ex-addict with an impressive pair of fake chompers—the result of years of drug abuse. According to Malone, Hope’s character serves as a metaphor for 1970s, a former junkie starting anew with new teeth, a new haircut, and a family. “It’s like the death of this dream of free love,”says Malone.
It’s almost a full-circle moment for Malone, this role of an ex-flower child in a PTA film. Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she 8)cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
Her mother had a musical theater background, so Malone grew up backstage, watching productions come to fruition. But that was probably the least unique thing about her childhood.
Malone’s father, who dealt cards at a 9)casino in Reno, was married to another woman when he 10)impregnated her mother. She didn’t have much of a relationship with him until they reconnected when she was a teenager. So, Malone was raised by her mother and her girlfriend.
“They were lovers,” says Malone.“I had two moms, and it was awesome. Double the pleasure! The more love you have as a child, the better.”
Because they were short on money, the family moved around a bunch—with Malone living in 27 different places by the time she was 9.
“We were just so poor,” she recalls.“We’d hop out of apartments, lose jobs, find a cheaper place, get kicked out, live in cars, and live in hotels. It was glorious.”
She adds, “I don’t think it was a tough childhood. I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor. It’s a beautiful thing to give children diversity of where to live and how to live; it makes you believe that security is built within instead of four concrete walls that you call a home. It was a unique way to grow up, and to see life in a different way.”
But throughout all this, Malone describes herself as “oddly responsible,” wanting to help her moms pay the bills as young as 10. And it was at that age that she booked her very first 11)audition ever—a UCLA film student’s senior thesis short called Sunday’s Child, which paid her a small sum. The 10-year-old looked her mother dead in the eye and said, “I’ve got a job, so let’s give it a year and see what happens.”
The following year, at age 11, she landed the role of Bone Boatwright in Anjelica Huston’s Bastard Out of Carolina. It was a very trying part that forced her to inflect a Southern accent, while playing a character who suffers terrible physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her on-screen stepfather, played by Ron Eldard. But Malone’s courageous turn would put her 12)on the map, earning a 1996 Independent Spirit Award nod for Best Debut Performance, as well as a 13)SAG nomination.

Another dazzling turn as Susan Sarandon’s rebellious daughter in Stepmom followed, and in January 2000, at just 15 years old, Malone became legally 14)emancipated. “I wanted to be an adult, and I felt I’d already been an adult for a very long time.”
Though her early characters were a bit more passive, e.g. as Jake Gyllenhaal’s love interest in Donnie Darko or a besieged 15)knocked up teen at a Christian high school in Saved!, Malone’s recently morphed into a silver screen ass-kicker with her Hunger Games character of Johanna and, if the rumors are true, Robin (she says her lips are sealed). “It’s not a place that I naturally live in,” Malone says. “I’m much more 16)klutzy, softspoken, and responsible.”
Indeed, Malone seems to be in a very good place, both personally and professionally. She’s drowning in projects, with six films scheduled to hit cinemas in 2015, and has been reportedly dating a fella for the past year.
“It’s a really inspiring time, so it always makes me thankful to think of how I was raised, the things I was given, and the lessons I was taught, because it all becomes who you are,” she says. “It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel very blessed.”

我簡直就是一個怪人,”吉娜·馬隆坦誠道。
對于這位自稱“怪人”的演員來說,今年是瘋狂的一年。她拍攝了六部電影,為第二張專輯巡演,在洛杉磯舉行了首個個人攝影展,還有,踏入而立之年。最近幾個月,她把頭發染紅了,據說是為了她接下來在《蝙蝠俠大戰超人之正義黎明》里面的角色:卡莉·凱利—弗蘭克·米勒不在經典之列的畫圖小說《黑暗騎士歸來》里面的女羅賓。這是《饑餓游戲之嘲笑鳥Ⅰ》中使用斧頭的狠角色喬安娜·曼森之外又一個壞孩子角色,《嘲笑鳥》續集會在明年推出,此外,馬隆還會出演另一個搶鏡角色—在由保羅·托馬斯·安德森執導的荒誕新黑色電影《性本惡》里面扮演一名改過自新的癮君子。……