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AGW's Lynn B talks toHannah Spearritt:Cody’s “Mini” Bond Girl
Hannah, without make-up, looked about twelve when we met with her at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills last week. In white tee, sweat pants and an Anaheim Angels baseball cap, the singer/actress bounced into our interview room and comfortably slouched in a chair, twisting her bracelets as she talked. Spearritt has that Paul McCartney English accent that always makes fans swoon but, anxious for an acting career, she’s working on losing it so that she can play a wide range of characters. AGW: You’re wearing an Anaheim Angels cap. Are you a baseball fan? Hannah: Well yeah. I bought this cap. And I was trying to ask the lady in the shop what I was buying. It was this little Chinese lady and she was like ‘I don't know. I don't know what it is’, so I said ‘okay, ‘I’ll get it anyway because I like the hat’. Are they a good team? [We indicate yes] Oh, good, so I’m not embarrassing myself. AGW: Were you familiar with the first “Cody” film? Hannah: When I got the part, I watched the first film. I sat at home and watched it on DVD. I enjoyed it. I mean, I’m not the target audience but I’m not completely out of the target audience either. AGW: How did you get the part? Hannah: I auditioned in London and had to learn a couple of scenes. And then I went through them with the director. I got a call and they asked me to come over to America to do a screen test. At that point, it was between me and another girl and they kept us completely separate even though we were on the same flight. They sat me at the front end of the plane, she was in the back. Then at the hotel, we were on completely different floors so we wouldn’t bump into each other. But I did spot her in reception because we had exactly the same makeup. She had all brown hair and I think she was more conservative. I think they probably got two different looks going on. Frankie came to screen test with both of us in different rooms. They couldn’t tell me that I had the part and I’d lost my cell phone so they got through to my family at home. And my dad called up, he said you know you got this part? AGW: Is it weird to be sort of a Bond girl but as a teenager? Hannah: Yeah, I’m like a mini-Bond girl. You can describe me as that. That’s fine. AGW: How do you feel about playing a teenager when you’re 22? Hannah: It’s good to be able to play younger. I look young so I can do that and at least in life, you’ve actually been there so you’ve experienced it so that’s fine. It’s a lot easier than trying to pretend to be older and trying to be more womanly and still be quite really young looking. AGW: Had you ever watched “Malcolm in the Middle”? Hannah: No, not before I got the role. When I got the role, I did research on Frankie and became really familiar with him. It’s a very popular show back home and my friends had seen it so they knew of him. AGW: S Club broke up about nine months ago. Any plans for more music? Hannah: Not at the minute. I’m hopefully going to go into acting. That’s what I wanted to do before the band anyway. It’s more like the band sidetracked me from my original path. But, if things don’t work out, I might have to. AGW: What was your weirdest S Club fan encounter? Hannah: Probably this girl in the Far East that asked Tina to sign her arm for her, and then she said ‘’m going to go get that tattooed now’. She went to the tattoo parlor and got it tattooed on her arm. AGW: What do you think of American Idol? Hannah: It’s huge, isn’t it? Very popular. It’s good I suppose for people to actually have a chance to get through into the industry. It’s hard though rocketing people like that so quickly to fame. I don't think that’s a good thing. AGW: Did you watch the British version? Hannah: Yes, I did, “Pop Idol” and half of the nation did as well. And it’s harsh because you know people are getting upset and it’s a horrible thing because you’re watching it to watch people suffer. And that’s not very nice really but that is why we watch it. And I think there’s too much of that stuff around to be honest. It’s kind of branched out to so many other areas. AGW: You shot this in London. Was it fun having spectators watch you work in the streets? Hannah: You know, whenever there’s a film crew, I think there’s crowds. London was busy anyway. We were filming in rush hour times. But yeah, people were coming up and seeing what was going on. AGW: Were there S Club fans there too? Hannah: There was this girl called Nikola who was a fan of S Club and she managed to find out where I was. Her friend had seen me and she’d called her and she traveled up. She was there within an hour. There weren’t like masses of people. But there were Frankie fans, there were Anthony [Anderson] fans and stuff. And then just film fans in general saying ‘what’s going on’?
Hannah: I’d done a little bit of kickboxing with my friend, just going to the local gym. They wanted to put me in for a couple of lessons before we did all the fighting scenes but there wasn’t enough time, so we just worked out the moves on the day. But the bit that wasn’t me was that scissor kick. I’m not flexible enough to do that. So that was my stunt double. AGW: How was working with Frankie? Do you have the same approach to acting? Hannah: I think Frankie is a lot more slick than me. He’s very professional. He’s done it for quite a few years. I’m sure working on a show like “Malcolm in the Middle” is so clean and precisely done, it’s fantastic. I’m sure that’s given him some great experience. And our (S Club 7) show was more kind of just run in and say what you want and then just banter. It was a lot more free form and probably not as professional as what he’s ever done before. So it was probably a lot different on our set than his I would say. AGW: Okay, just some basic fun info. Tell us your favorite foods, fave summer memory and worst summer job? Hannah: Okay. Food is roast dinners, like a Sunday roast, any kind of gravy meal. Or Indian food. Memory is going on holiday with my friends and job would be working at a holiday camp. Everybody drove me crazy! AGW: What music are you into? Hannah: I like Daft Punk and Outkast. AGW: Does this business make you competitive? Hannah: Yeah, I suppose I’ve got a competitive streak in me. I’m an Aries so I probably have. But, I quite enjoy the whole process of auditioning, even getting rejected. Because I’ve been in [the music business] about five years and been bubbled, the years have been so secured and there’s been no chance of anything going wrong unless our fans completely disappear. As long as we were together, we were making music and everything was fine. So I’ve been really enjoying having that audition process and then being rejected. I’m really enjoying being on my own and going through that normal procedure. I like that. AGW: Do you have three tips for dealing with fame? Hannah: Don’t take yourself too seriously. Enjoy it and back it up with talent. Do your craft, do your hard work in what you really like and what you’re famous for. AGW: What was the first acting job? Hannah: Well, there’s nothing much really recognized, but I was involved in theater for four years, a great company called the National Music Theater. And the last show I did with them was a production called “Bugsy Malone” in the West End. I got myself an agent and I did a drama for the BBC and she got me a Mercedes commercial which was cool money wise. But, I left her because this open audition came up for S Club and with that you don’t need an agent. AGW: How did the S Club audition happen? Hannah: I’m thankful it’s actually a successful pop band because it was literally one of those advertisements in big black writing saying “Wanna Be a Star”? And you don’t expect anything like that to usually come off at all. So me and my friend went out for that not thinking it was going to come of anything. And we just had Sundays off and it was on a Sunday and we went along for it. And then it went onto a second audition, third audition and then being taken to Italy with four other people who might be in the band and things were being changed around and then yeah, I was in a band. AGW: You’re still living in London. How do you like L.A.? Hannah: Yeah. I’ve spent quite a bit of time here. I’ve got a car this time so I’ve been a little bit more independent and I can get around. You need a car out here. If I didn’t have a car, I think I’d be pining to go home a lot more. But at least I can get myself about and drive myself down to auditions and everything. I don’t have to rely on somebody else. I don’t like that. AGW: Is it hard driving on the other side of the road? Hannah: Not too much trouble, yeah. I was nervous when I first got in the car, but I drive a gear stick back home, it’s a really old car. So you come over here to do an automatic and it’s quite easy, so it’s quite cool. AGW: What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? Hannah: Well, mostly I just kind of catch up with friends and stuff. Just recently I got myself a tripod and I’m doing photography stuff. I might go and take a course. I quite enjoy that. I’m very, very amateur, but I enjoy taking photos and things and I enjoy computer games. I enjoy pitch and putt in the summer. I enjoy going to cinema. It’s difficult to do the gym thing but me and my friends go when we have got our act together. We do go to kickboxing together. AGW: Could you lose your accent to play a non-Brit part? Hannah: ’m taking American dialect lessons. There’s a couple of vowel sounds we do make mistakes on that I’ve got to work on, but it’s getting there.
Pictures courtesy of MGM Studios
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22-year-old
Hannah Spearritt, a tiny, adorable blonde, was a huge hit for five years
as part of S Club 7, eventually S Club; a Brit pop group that once ruled
the charts. T.V. shows, a film, etc. further launched Hannah and her bandmates
into superstardom. Then, nine months ago, it all ended… but not
for this blonde dynamo. Hannah, now solo, is moving into film, her first
love, with Cody Banks 2: Destination London, the “Cody” sequel
in which she co-stars with Frankie Muniz. 
AGW:
How much of the stunts were you? Did you learn martial arts?