River on Lili

Interviewer: Who's the best actress you've ever worked with?

River: Hands down it's been Lili Taylor who I co-starred with in Dogfight. She is just an amazing actress, and human being as well. Incredible working with her. She is so professional and so strong and she's fearless. The character I played in Dogfight was very different than who I am in real life, I mean as an actor that's what we do, but what Lili did, to me, was something really, really amazing. Here you have someone who can play a beautiful European actress's life story and then she can do Dogfight and go through the gruelling make-up sessions, the padding, and the gaining of weight to transform herself into this ugly duckling.