And of anyone, my dad would've been like, 'No, you're not doing this because of that.' But this story is so much more than me just playing someone pregnant. "My dad read this script-he's read every script I've read-and he loved this. "People take that and judge that book by its cover, but there's so much more to it," she says. "There's some sort of role that in a way I think some people think is some sort of trend, but it's really a rite of passage." But while playing a young woman going through the particular struggle her character Eliza goes through in Saints was appealing, she also hopes audiences see beyond that and also don't just see it as her taking a role to check "Knocked Up Girl" off of some cinematic checklist. "I feel like for guys it's maybe playing a transgender and for girls it's playing a pregnant teen," she says. Like, say, playing a pregnant punk in Ten Thousand Saints. While a lauded performance at a young age means Steinfeld became a casting director's get early, it also means she has to do a lot to show her range. Steinfeld gained recognition for her music after performing 'Flashlight' in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015).Steinfelds debut extended play, Haiz, was released on November 13, 2015, by Republic Records. She Considers Playing a Pregnant Teen a Rite of Passage American actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld has released two extended plays, nineteen singles (including nine as a featured artist), three promotional singles and has made other album appearances. But I do get to a certain point as a human where I'm like, 'I need to go home and get to know my own bed again.'" "I love what I do so much that when I do it I don't want to stop. "I kind of went non-stop for two years," she told WIRED at the Sundance Film Festival while supporting her indie film Ten Thousand Saints. (See Anna Paquin and Ellen Page for similar trajectories.) She didn't garner any other Academy Award nods, but she did build an impressive IMDb filmography in the process-if you haven't seen Hateship Loveship, you're doing yourself a disservice-and she did evade the Hollywood pigeonholing that befalls so many ingenues. Since that breakout role, Steinfeld has done what a lot of young actors find themselves doing: Taking on a constant stream of roles in everything from Shakespeare adaptations ( Romeo and Juliet) to sci-fi flicks ( Ender's Game), with almost no end in sight. She quite indisputably became a Hollywood darling. She quite definitely received an Oscar nomination. Playing strong-willed prairie girl Mattie Ross in the Coen Brothers' adaptation of True Grit, the then-14-year-old quite possibly upstaged the great Jeff Bridges. Five years ago, Hailee Steinfeld came out of nowhere.
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