Kiernan Shipka doesn’t like the phrase “just friends.” To the actress, who recently held roles in films like “Twisters,” “Longlegs” and “Red One,” it’s a trite reduction and frequent label applied to those relationships we can’t seem to define — the kinds that sit in the nebulous realm between friends and something more. The kinds that could almost certainly come to romantic fruition, if only someone could find the right words.
“I always catch myself because it’s the way we say it, but I don’t like ‘just friends.’ I think you’re friends,” Shipka explained in a recent Salon Talks sit down. “It takes away from the fact that it’s really valuable.”
