Beauty Reporter.(Alison Lohman)

Beauty Reporter

Allure's Face

Allison Lohman

She made waves as Michelle PfeifferOs daughter in White Oleander, portrayed Jessica Lange as a girl in Big Fish, and won laurels as a 14-year-old grifter in Matchstick Men. This month, at 27, Alison Lohman plays the 16-year-old horse-whispering heroine of Flicka. You play younger so convincingly. Is there a trick? Honestly, sometimes I donOt think that I can play that young. I donOt think IOm going to be taking another part where IOm playing 16. Did growing up in the Palm Springs area affect your sense of style? Oh, my God, no. If anything I would have rebelled against it. Those creatures with streaked hair and white lounge suits and six-inch mules, driving tricked-out white HummersE Oh, I know. With the gold spangles and all the little doodads.

It was all about going out with red lipstick and bleached blonde hair, and I did do that at 16, but I quickly moved out of that phase. Did you really sing for Frank Sinatra when you were ten? I did. That was quite an experience. Do you remember what you sang?

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