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“I have my horses outside and my dry creek and my stone fruit orchard and my
citrus orchard and chickens...”
That project was the 2014 star showcase Misha Cross Wide Open. “And he says, ‘Do you want to do it?’ And I said, ‘You know what? Yeah.’”
So she wrote a script and this time when shooting got underway, “I didn’t feel lost,” she submits. “For one, I didn’t have people telling me how things had to be, but also, just time had passed, I had learned more, I had a better understanding of how to achieve what I had in mind, things like that.
“And I just kind of got bit by the bug.”
The Permaculture Way
A fascination Kayden Kross has taken up in recent years—which wholly informs her approach to cultivating and fostering the sprawling assortment of produce-bearing plants and small menagerie of animals populating her newly acquired three acres—is the principle of permaculture.
“It’s about how you design systems to work intelligently ... the mantra is ‘put things where they go,’” she explains. “So for example, I put my citrus up where it gets lots of sun and drains really well, I put my stone fruits down by the creek where they get lots of chill hours, and they can handle more water than the citrus can and would like a little more dappled sunlight than the citrus. You know ... put things where they would naturally want to be if they were growing in the wild.”
Asked how much she feels the tenets of permaculture carry over to her directing methods, she replies without hesitation: “Completely.”
In conceiving a project, Kross expounds, “I write to the actress rather than trying to conform the actress to something that she isn’t. I try to put people with people who share chemistry. I try to put looks and feels and vibes or whatever you want to call it with people who naturally give that off. I stalk them online and look at their social media and get a sense of who they are, and I build to them. I don’t hammer them into something else that doesn’t make sense.”
With such a remarkable tally of illustrious accomplishments under her belt at such a relatively young age, one has to wonder what Kayden Kross could hope to achieve next.
“I want my career to keep heading in a direction where I get to not leave my property,” she half-jokes. “I have my horses outside and my dry creek and my stone fruit orchard and my citrus orchard and chickens... that’s ultimate success for me.”
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