|
|
 |
|
|
Meet another girl/teen in our club who likes the same movie favorites as you do. To write her, click on the link to join the penpal club! Hangin' With Archives
|
We're Hangin' With.....The Star of "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton"... KATE BOSWORTH by: Lynn B.
Kate started her career at age 13 with a brief role in The Horse Whisperer and this year has covered all the bases as a sporty surfer, a druggie in Wonderland and now, an innocent charmer. She's long ago lost that Hawaii Blue Crush tan and looked very porcelain and delicate in peach tank top and long dangle silver earrings touched with turquoise when we first saw her in the hall at the famous 4 Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills. She was with her dad who was probably totally out of his element at a Hollywood press junket. Kate enters beaming… Kate: Dreamworks was kind enough to fly my family here. My dad is so cute. AGW: Has he "gone Hollywood" like your dad does in the movie? Kate: No, but that was actually one of the scenes he chuckled at most, I think. That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of like me kissing another guy. And I'm thinking, "Okay, no one would ever normally see that. A father would never normally watch." So he's forced to sit there and watch it. AGW: Making out in a parked car even… Kate: I know. And it's so funny because it's palpable, the energy. He was sitting next to me (at the screening of the film) and we were all laughing, and all of sudden this came up and I'm going [her eyes get big and she goes silent] and sitting there very straight and holding my breath. And then telling him, "You alright, dad?" And he's like 'yeah'. It's so funny. AGW: Did your parents ever try to learn about the business, subscribe to Variety and such? Kate: They're actually pretty savvy on their own which is really thoroughly sweet, but sometimes my mom will say something and I say, "You were on the internet today, weren't you?" And she'll say, "Yeah, I was." I sort of catch her because I think there's no way she could know that. "I hear so and so is up for this part." AGW: Where are they from? Kate: They actually lived in Los Angeles for many years, so that's sort of I think how they have their own savviness in the business. But, I was raised basically on the east coast in Connecticut and Boston. AGW: Did your parents recognize their daughter in this character? Kate: That would be my hope. My favorite thing about this character is I think I took basically the best qualities in me and kind of poured it all into Rosalee. And that was a really, really great space to live in for a few months, to go to work every day and just look at things in the most positive light. AGW: What qualities do you admire in her? Kate: I would say that she's incredibly true to herself, or she tries to be. She tries to see the good in everything, the silver lining which is so important in life. And just a certain kindness I think that I find really endearing in this character and I enjoyed doing. AGW: Have you ever met a celebrity who shattered your illusions? Kate: You know what? I really haven't. I feel fortunate. But, being in this business and knowing how you really can't judge a book by its cover, and how different things probably are than how they're portrayed, I try not to have a certain image of somebody. I know that there are so many different things said about me that I'm thinking, "Well, take it with a grain of salt." You can't exactly put anybody in a box. TeenHollywood Did you ever have a celebrity crush? Kate: Humm, who is the Tad for me? I just remember Brad Pitt in A River Runs Through It. I remember just thinking he was so cute. And I can't remember what year that was. '92, so I was about 12, I think and I thought he was really, really cute. I was interested all of a sudden and going 'oh, there's a much different interest going on here'. AGW: What the best date you've been on? (We're hoping we'll hear a great Orlando tale). Kate: I've been so, so lucky. I've never really been on an official date to be honest, which is really weird. The person I've been interested in, I've been with for kind of chunks of years. And so I've just been really lucky. It'd be hard to pick one just because of that. There's sort of 100 magical ones which was great. AGW: What's a wild night out for you?
AGW: So when you go home, is it like a small town life? Kate:
Yeah. I try to keep that mentality. I've been in Europe a lot which has
been really great. I'm shooting this film in Berlin and it's been really
neat to travel and see Europe and it's a beautiful place. Kate: One of the biggest pieces of advice my dad gave me growing up was "Whatever you do, love it." And it was something that was really, truly ingrained in me from a very young age, so I've groomed horses since I was about six, so I think that the only job I've had other than filmmaking, because I started that when I was about 13, was just working in stables. I mean, it's mucking out, it's getting really down and dirty but I loved it. I loved every second of it and that's a great thing to learn actually, love what you do. AGW:
Loving what you do, does that make you more competitive? Kate: Yeah. I took a lot of particular qualities in me and basically bunched them all together and put them on screen. I was watching it last night for the first time and I knew sort of what I was doing. I was sitting there and seeing myself do these quirky things that I do in life. I don't necessarily want the whole world to see these dorky things that I do, you know, or the laughs or the complete hilarity of situations. And I'm watching going wow, this is gonna be really, really interesting. AGW: Like jumping up and down when you get great news? Kate: Yeah, you know, and I will be the first to admit I do that all the time. I'm not one to pretend I'm this cool human being because I'm certainly not and I think that it's really important to embrace the inner dork. AGW: Did you squeal when you got this part? Kate: I did. Just like Rosalee. I wanted this part so, so, so much and I'd just finished filming Blue Crush actually. I got Wonderland the script and this script at the same time. I read them actually on the plane back from Hawaii. And I said to my agent, "I want to do something really just completely different, something really dark and shocking." So then I happened to be on the plane, I read Wonderland. I said, "God, this is great. It's perfect." And then I thought, "Yeah, but you know, let's see this next one." AGW: They're so totally different. Kate: I read the title and I thought, "Okay, a reality TV show thing?" Win a date? I didn't understand. And I read it and I fell in love with this script so full heartedly. It was just probably the most I've ever wanted a part. And so I landed, I called my agent, I said, "I want to do them back to back. If I had a perfect, ideal world, that's what I would want to do" and like I said, when I put my heart to something, I do it 100% so it was really a combination of luck and hard work I think with getting those two. AGW: What about the script did you like so much? Its innocence? Kate: Yeah, it was written that way and I knew Robert Luketic was directing it and I love Legally Blonde. I thought he just added an intelligence to something that could've been really mediocre and I thought he made it really unique. So I was dying to work with him and I knew that he would elevate anything that was already there. AGW: It's weird that you and co-star Topher Grace went to the same school back home. Kate: It's extraordinary. I spent about five years, ages 9 to 13, and he spent his entire life in Darian, Connecticut. I was 13 when I got The Horse Whisperer. He was probably about 15, 16. So he was in high school, so he certainly didn't know me. I was just some little kid. He came up to me at a party when I first moved to L.A. I was overwhelmed by everything and I was standing there in the corner, new girl sort of thing. And he came up to me, said, "You're Kate, right?" And I said, "Yeah," because I knew Topher from "That '70s Show". And he said, "Did you live in Darian, Connecticut?" And I said, "Yeah," and he said, "Oh, I'm from Darian. Do you know so and so?" And I said, "Yeah." And it was amazing, because it was like such a small town that we had the same doctor, we had the same teachers, all these crazy things, and then it happened, fate would have it, a couple years later, them saying, "Oh, I think Topher Grace is gonna do this," I said, "That's hilarious because we're both from the same small town. We both had a bit of an amused smile the entire shoot. It's just funny how destiny will have it sometimes. AGW: Do you have any Valentine's Day plans? Kate: I'm not sure if I'll be done with the film in Berlin actually. It's called Beyond the Sea, with Kevin Spacey. (we note that she plays Sandra Dee to Kevin's Bobby Darin in the film). AGW: Do you have to keep teenage girls away from your boyfriend? Kate: [LAUGHTER] No, I'd never do that. AGW: What kind of music are you into? Kate: I'm more of a Coldplay, Ben Harper, Radiohead. Soulful. And I love the old stuff as well.
|
 
|
Angela
& Gina's Room |
Brigid
& Kayla's Room |
Christine
& Erika's Room |
Lauren
& Sarada's Room | Circle of Friends PenPal Club | Site Map |
|
Since 1996, your space on the web : written and edited by girls and teens from all over the world. Media Kit Feedback Newsletter Write FOR us Contact Us |
|
Copyright © 2006 A Girl's World Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
|
Okay
so she's a gorgeous blonde actress going out with ultra-hottie actor Orlando
B. but, as small town girl Rosalee Futch, Kate Bosworth is just a starstruck
supermarket checker who gets to spend an evening with her major crush
in Win a Date With Tad Hamilton. The actress identified with the
good girl role and went after it wholeheartedly. She grabbed the director's
hand when they met and told him "I AM Rosalee Futch!". This
is a girl who knows how to embrace her inner dork!
Kate:
Oh God, I feel like so boring all of a sudden, searching my brain for
something wild. I'm so low key. I hate to say it, but I really am. I don't
enjoy the wild side. I mean, it can be fun to go out in Hollywood once
in a while and have a laugh, but that would be so occasionally. I'm mostly
traveling. I've been traveling a lot this past year which is great. (There
you go, Orlando has been overseas a lot).