ingénue

Purser’s Anne isn’t the demure ingenue of more traditional productions, even though McDonald’s Edouard Dindon has no problem playing the farcical parental heavy.

To help develop his material for the book, he performed a one-man show over the summer called “Middle Aged Ingenue.”

When I ask if he’s ever felt pigeonholed in the billion-dollar-grossing phenomenon of “Saw,” Bell suggests that every actor gets pigeonholed, whether as “an ingenue, the girl next door,” or in his case, a “bad guy.”

She also found she was referencing the arc of an ingénue in a Jennifer Blowdryer book she nabbed in Silver Lake.

The roles she most loved are the ones she aged up for and did not look like an ingenue.