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Meet Michelle Trachtenberg
In The Movies

Sara: "Harriet the Spy" is your very first movie. How did you like working in movies?

Michelle: Filming a movie was a lot of fun. It was a great experience for me. When I was working on the set, I got to see how everything works. All the camera equipment, all the angles [they shoot], how long it takes. Did you know two or three days of shooting would be two or three minutes in the movie? I found that really amazing! Shooting a movie was a lot of fun to do all by itself.

Sara: What's your day like when you're working?

Michelle: It depends... If my call time is early in the morning, I'd get up, get dressed, and somebody would come to pick me up in a car. I'd go to the set and eat my breakfast and look over my lines for the day, and then we'd start filming. Well, not quite. First I'd go into wardrobe and make-up and hair, and then we'd start filming. I get to take a break for lunch, and I also get school. I definitely get school.

Sara: How do you handle school while you're filming?

Michelle: I get at least three hours a day or more. If it's possible, I get more. Then at the end of the day, when I've got my school hours and we've finished shooting for the day, I go home. I'm in a public school, but I'm in a special program for talented kids [in Brooklyn]. But when I'm on the set, I have a tutor. She talks to my school, and whatever my class is doing, I'm doing. Even though I'm away from them, my tutor gets all the curriculum that the class is doing, so I can do it too. I do the same things and I make up all my work. Sometimes I actually get ahead of my class, which is pretty fun.

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