As she prepared for Saturday's world premiere of The Edge of Seventeen at the Toronto International Film Festival, teen superstar Hailee Steinfeld said she felt like it was a defining moment in her career. "I feel like I accomplished something," the Oscar-nominated actor-singer said in an interview before the screening, which served as the festival's closing night film. "I feel like I met a truth that I haven't maybe in other movies or necessarily with a character like this." 'I feel like I met a truth that I haven't maybe in other movies,' actress-singer Hailee Steinfeld said of her character Nadine, a socially awkward, self-absorbed character struggling with high-school life. "I never knew what the meant until I played this part, being able to use everything within me.

Source: CBC News September 18, 2016 14:48 UTC