Access magazine interview by Angela Baldassarre
She tore out throats as a teenage werewolf in Ginger Snaps. Now Vancouver actress Katharine Isabelle tears up the scenery with co-star Al Pacino in Insomnia.
Werewolves have nothing on Al Pacino. At least that’s what actress Katharine Isabelle tells me about meeting the intimidating movie star.Read more |
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BBC Online interview by Almar Haflidason
Was it good therapy playing a character like Ginger?
Oh yeah, Ginger is an exaggeration of my bad side. I even have a pony called Ginger, and she's a total cow. You don't get the chance to rage like that very often.Read more |
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Calgary Sun interview by Louis B. Hobson
Pacino strikes fear into werewolf
There's something more terrifying for a werewolf than the little purple-hooded flower known as wolf's bane.
Try an encounter with Al Pacino.Read more |
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The Guardian interview by Stephen Applebaum
Angry like the wolf - Being a modern teen, Ginger Snaps star Katherine Isabelle already knows what it's like to feel alienated - the rest she learnt from her pony.
Rising Canadian star Katherine Isabelle experiences the double "curse" of menstruation and lycanthropy in Ginger Snaps, John Fawcett's clever, feminist spin on the werewolf genre. She won the changeling role when Toronto-based casting directors boycotted the film, assuming it was going to be a cheap slasher flick.Read more |
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North Shore news interview by Unknown
Interview with the wolf - West Vancouver actor Katharine Isabelle does not get nightmares. That served her well during filming of Ginger Snaps, a nightmarish film indeed.
"If I get nightmares it's stuff like the bubbles in the bathtub are getting too high and I'm panicking," laughs Isabelle, whose experiences on the set of the locally cast horror film would give most people night terrors for weeks.Read more |
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Sci-fi online interview by Keri Allan
She grew up with her co-star in Ginger Snaps , had a part in the X-Files and is in a film next spring with Al Pacino. For one so young Katharine Isabelle has had a whirlwind career. Keri Allan finds out what her secret is...Read more |
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Canada.com / National Post interview by Katrina Onstad
Feet on the ground
"We represent Canada," says Monte Gagne, a brunette with a small braid framing one side of her face. "I'm from Saskatoon, she's from Vancouver," she continues, gesturing at the redhead with the oval eyes, who is Katharine Isabelle.Read more |
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Eye weekly article (09.02.04) by Gord McLaughlin
A second youth, macIdeas remounts their successful debut production.
Katharine Isabelle hasn't been on stage since she was four. Sure, she's on of Canada's hottest film and television actors, already a veteran at 22 with star turns in Ginger snaps and Falling angels. But when she was cast in the Toronto production of Kenneth Lonergan's This is our youth, she says, "All my friends were like, 'Katie, that's real acting. Can you do that?' I said, 'I don't know. I guess I'll see.'"Read more |
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FilmFour interview by James Mottram
Katharine Isabelle on Ginger snaps
Pitched as Heavenly Creatures meets The Fly, Ginger Snaps is a monster-movie variation of the female coming-of-age story that features two teenage sisters whose world is flipped when one is bitten by a werewolf. FilmFour spoke to star Katharine Isabelle and director John Fawcett. Read more |
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Destinations interview by Unknown
"I CAN SCREAM REALLY WELL", Vancouver actress Katharine Isabelle tells me. No kidding. Since her acting career launched some seven years ago, Isabelle ('Kate' to her friends) has acted in a broad range of roles, but has most often ended up in horror or suspense movies.Read more |
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Empire #150 interview by Mark Dinning
Katharine Isabelle, one of these kids is doing their own thing.
Maybe it's the strange-cousins-to-the-north Canadian thing, maybe the fiery red locks, or perhaps even the "double Scorpio" star sign - which by her own admission, translates as "big time, majorly fucked up" - but while most 19 year-old starlets tend to split their days between glossy magazine covers and wafer-thin roles opposite Ryan Phillipe, Katharine Isabelle has always done things rather differently.Read more |
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Dark Side #93 interview by Sloan Freer
A wolf in teen clothing
As Low Costello once observed, plenty of hot-blooded males turn into wolves when the moon is out. But actress Katharine Isabelle reverses that trend in Ginger Snaps. Sloan Freer talked to her about her creepy career to date.Read more |
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The Province (1) interview by Glen Schaefer
Katie's horse sense
It’s a good thing Katharine Isabelle has her horses as a constant in her life.Read more |
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The Province (2) interview by Glen Schaefer
Isabelle keeps conquering her fears, Englishman's Boy co-star revels in tackling acting's unknowns.
Katharine Isabelle flounces into the Hollywood-meets-the-Old-West miniseries The Englishman's Boy wearing a Marie Antoinette outfit and a towering powdered wig
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Fangoria article by Michael Gingold
Katharine Isabelle goes to HELL, dies for Boll
At the recent Monster Mania convention in New Jersey, Fango got a few words with Katharine Isabelle, the actress beloved by fright fans for her starring turns in the GINGER SNAPS films. She’s got a pair of genre features coming up: HARD RIDE TO HELL, lensing in Vancouver for Spike TV, and Uwe Boll’s latest ode to violence, RAMPAGE.Read more |
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