Singer and actress Hailee Steinfeld has opened up about her new film, 'Edge of Seventeen', and confessed that she could empathise with her character at times. 

She told Seventeen magazine that her role in the film felt natural as she could identify with some of the character's experiences:

This girl goes through experiences I totally went through, where it felt like it was the absolute end of the world. Just having so many moments where you question who you are and what it is that you're good at and what you feel good in."

She explained that she was picked on excessively at school to the point where she had to turn up early every day to go through the back entrance:

"There was a period of time where every morning at 7.02, I'd get a prank phone call at my house. That's how I'd start every day, with a threat saying, 'Come to school now. We're going to kick your butt'. So I went to school early and went in the back way."

"And there would be times when I'd come back to my desk and have hand sanitiser all over my books and in my water bottle. People would come by and slam my locker shut when I was still putting my books in it. It was just the most absurd things that you are supposed to see only in the movies."

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