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"    Photo: Getty Images  What&amp;#039;s it like to act with Meryl Streep? Nerve wracking\u2014duh\u2014says Juliette Lewis. The August: Osage County actress seems tough as nails, but even she got stage fright around the acting titan, albeit just for a few seconds. We spoke with the lead singer of Juliette and the Licks about playing Julia Roberts&amp;#039; little sister, her upcoming projects with Aaron Paul and Melissa Leo, and her true love: music. How did you get involved with &amp;#039;August: Osage County?&amp;#039; Everybody and their mother was auditioning for this. When I read the script, I was at a certain place in my life. My dad had had a heart attack, and I didn&amp;#039;t know if he was going to make it or not, and my two sisters and I came together in a way that I&amp;#039;d never experienced before. We all sort of came together, and it brought out different sides of us in times of crisis. Six months later, I get this script. I could not believe the dynamic, that there were three sisters in a time of crisis... What was it like working with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and the rest of the cast? It&amp;#039;s weird, because I&amp;#039;ve worked with some incredible people [like] Woody Allen, Oliver Stone, [Robert] De Niro, Johnny Depp. But when you have a cast of that many great people...I was very nervous. And that&amp;#039;s not like me.  Photo: Claire Folger/ The Weinstein Company You were nervous? People think I&amp;#039;m pretty confident, and I am, in some ways. But I was really nervous, because your mind, especially your artistic criticism, is, like, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t fuck this up.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m not watching the movie, because I just will never please myself. With this material, with this cast, you can&amp;#039;t just be &amp;quot;okay.&amp;quot; But I used all my nervous energy, because the foundation of my character Karen is insecurity, nervousness. Anyone who&amp;#039;s seen or read the play, or even the film trailer, knows there&amp;#039;s a major family dinner scene with a lot of explosions. What was it like shooting it? It was tough, I&amp;#039;m not going to lie. And then, it was literally like watching Meryl Streep acting live in the greatest theater performance ever, and she was two feet from me. It&amp;#039;s transcendental, if I can use such a word. [Laughs] It transcends space and time! It&amp;#039;s magic. You also shot a movie called &amp;#039;Hellion&amp;#039; with Aaron Paul. What is he like? Great. I just love him. He is such a beautiful person. He has a lust for life, he is in love with his wife, and he&amp;#039;s a fucking mind-blowing actor. I hope it does really nice things for Aaron. It&amp;#039;s a really touching story, and it&amp;#039;ll be different for him than Breaking Bad.  Photo: Claire Folger/ The Weinstein Company You also have a TV series out next year called &amp;#039;Wayward Pines.&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;m having a little bit of a run that I&amp;#039;m quite proud of! Wayward Pines stars Melissa Leo, one of my heroes, who has become a friend. The part is really juicy and intense. It&amp;#039;s a twisted thriller that M. Night Shyamalan has set the tone for, because he directs the pilot. We&amp;#039;ll never say what happens! With all this acting, have you had time for your music career? Music is like my greatest lover. If I don&amp;#039;t do it, I actually feel half complete as a soul [laughs]. So how are you working music into your schedule? Just recently I started working with this band called Cage the Elephant. There&amp;#039;s only a handful of good rock &amp;amp;amp; roll today, and they&amp;#039;re one of them. Arctic Monkeys is another, Jack White is another, but they&amp;#039;re all in this similar genre. So I&amp;#039;ve been going back and forth to Nashville. Between putting my pretty dresses on and talking about August, I&amp;#039;m going to a little studio in Nashville, and I&amp;#039;ll have a little EP out by this spring. And I&amp;#039;m just aching to get on the road, really. When will you have time? I don&amp;#039;t know how I&amp;#039;m going to manage it with still making movies, because I&amp;#039;m quite serious about having another chapter in my career, but all I know is I need to be in a sweaty, dive-y, loud rock club, giving everything to an audience. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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