NANCY DREW DIRECTOR RIGHTS EMMA ROBERTS WRONGS

Nancy Drew director sent Emma Roberts to etiquette school to behave like the character.

Nancy Drew director Andrew Fleming had very specific ideas about the way he wanted his teenage leading lady Emma Roberts to behave for the character of the mystery solver so he sent her to etiquette school.

The etiquette coach gave Emma the tools to assume the proper position and posture for Nancy Drew.

“I found this woman who is an expert in etiquette. She’s an etiquette consultant and Emma and I got together with her because I felt there was a difference between what a normal girl is what Emma is and what Nancy should be. That she should have the correct posture, she should shake your hand in the right way. And that she should hold a knife and fork the way a nice young lady ought to and to give her a different physicality.”

Fleming felt sorry for Emma who had to change her whole body language, even the way she sits.

“I think it was strange for Emma to have this woman telling her how to stand and how to make eye contact and that she should never cross her legs a certain way but she absorbed it and I think it really helped a lot because there was this way Emma would sit as herself that Nancy would never sit and she assumed the posture. She became that person.”

There was so much attention paid to the style of Nancy Drew that even the sleuth kit and car upholstery matched perfectly with her outfits. Nancy Drew opens Friday in theaters.