
She spent her primary and her teen years on Saipan before leaving for Boise, Idaho, and then Utah.Īccording to her, being back home feels like nothing has changed. “Just having to bring the emotions and do justice for the film, that was one of the most challenging but also the most rewarding,” she said.Īside from Love, Kennedy, Bennett has starred in commercials, training videos for the veteran’s hospital, and will soon take on a supporting role in an upcoming horror film, Big Foot on Mill Creek Dead End.īennett was born in Guam, but raised on Saipan. “I’ve always been drawn to true stories and for it to be one of my first films, I just couldn’t have asked for a better first project for myself.”Īccording to her, one of the biggest challenges she faced on set was when she was required to film all her heavier, emotional scenes all at once. “They were so brave to just allow the world to see the story of Kennedy… she’s an inspiration to me as well,” she said. Love, Kennedy is a film based on the life of Kennedy Hansen, who fell ill and died from Battens disease.īennett feels honored that her first film turned out to be one based on a brave and humble family. “He was really impressed with my work and he invited me to the audition…Two weeks later I heard that I got the part,” said Bennett.


The daughter of Ambrose and Lillian was invited to audition for her role by a director she worked with in an acting workshop. It took two years of acting classes, modelling classes, and more before landing the role “It was a lot of training, auditions, modelling classes, a lot of prep work that I had been doing,” she said.
