That leaves Brooke Smith, the actress who played Catherine, to tell the tale of its provenance. Cruising down a Memphis highway late at night, Catherine sings along with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “American Girl,” the lyrics foreshadowing the doom that awaits her. “And ‘American Girl’ was the one he really wanted. I just didn’t feel like the quintessential American girl. It just set it up absolutely 100 percent perfectly, that song.”For such a famous movie moment, the “American Girl” routine was simple in execution.

Source: Huffington Post October 04, 2017 12:33 UTC