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MANDY
MOORE: CALLS US FROM VENICE!
by:
Lynn B. Mandy: Hi, it's Mandy. How are you doing? AGW: Great. We hear it's pretty hot and humid there? Mandy: Yeah, but it's not too bad. AGW: Have you seen anything of Venice yet? Mandy: I'm walking to most of the locations here. You walk just about everywhere here anyway but you get to see much of the city without really realizing it. It's nice. AGW: We hear you enjoyed tea time in London. Is there anything cool to eat or drink in Venice? Mandy: Well, actually, my best friend from home is visiting right now and both of us have been craving anything with peanut butter in it for a couple of days and we've been walking and walking all around the city and we can't find anything with peanut butter in it. We're kinda o.d.'d on pizza, pasta and any type of Italian food. We're talking about all the nasty junk food that we miss like Taco Bell and In and Out Burger. AGW: Besides food, what else has you feeling homesick? Mandy: I don't really watch a lot of t.v. but I miss English [American] t.v. The hotel that we're staying in only carries CNN and MSNBC. I'm like 'okay, I don't really care about the stock market and I want to know what's going on in the world but CNN is the European edition so I'm feeling pretty out of the loop'. I'm reading the USA Today and it's the world edition and I'm getting select news. I miss t.v. and I'll watch movies even if they're in Italian if they were originally English movies. AGW: What is different about shooting this film in Europe from your last two films (Walk to Remember and How to Deal)? Mandy: It's kind of weird to sit here and realize that you're working with people that aren't necessarily speaking your language. I feel guilty but, you're working with other actors in scenes and you're not speaking the same language. There always has to be somebody translating. Like to the Italian crew, what our crew wants. It takes a little bit more time but you end up feeling guilty at the end of the day. We're in their country. I should be able to converse with them but I'm learning a lot. I had to speak some Italian in a scene last night and I felt terrible because I'm like 'it's not 100 percent passable. It's no good'. It's such a beautiful language and I'm not doing it any justice. AGW: So you just did it phonetically, just how it sounds? Mandy: Yeah. I worked with a dialogue coach to help me sound everything out. I didn't want to do it on my own. AGW: I know Mark Harmon plays your dad but who plays your boyfriend in the film? Mandy: My love interest is played by Matthew Goode who is a British actor. [looking around]. He's not sitting in here so I can talk about him. He's a wonderful actor. He's a tremendous fella. I appreciate working with him. I feel lucky because he's going to be this big, huge star a month from now. He's just a nice guy and it helps a lot when you are working day in and day out for months on a set with people. You want to be surrounded by someone you can become friends with. He's completely cute so it's not a bad job. It's great. We have five Americans on the crew and everybody else is British, Italian or Czech. It's really cool. It feels so different from other films I've done. AGW: How is Mark Harmon as your dad the President? Mandy: He's the greatest person I know. I didn't know what to expect. He gave me great advice. He reminded me to slow down and appreciate everything that was happening and not take it so seriously and embrace making mistakes and realize amazing things can come from making those mistakes. He's a wonderful storyteller. I would sit down and be almost like 'okay. Tell another story, Mark'. He talks about his life's work and everything. He's led an incredible, fascinating life. He needs to write a book. AGW: Do you like your wardrobe in the film? Is there anything you want to keep? Mandy: (excited) Yeah! There are nice suits. I consider myself to be pretty modest and shy and I gravitate, hopefully, toward classier pieces so in the beginning of the film where I'm the picture perfect first daughter, there are a couple of things I like, more so than the wardrobe that I wear for the rest of the film even though that's more the way I dress on a daily basis. But you wear this stuff so much. I'm predominately in two different outfits through the whole film. You see those things day in and day out and, by the end of it, you're like 'I don't need to see that again in my entire life'. I'm sick of seeing those shoes, that shirt and trousers.. Aaaaaaah! AGW: You're kind of a blonde again in this film. Mandy: I have blonde hair in the beginning of the film but it's a wig. Then I'm back to myself which is good. AGW: So being a blonde again briefly didn't make you want to go back? Mandy: No, no, no, no. I realized how appreciative I am to be a brunette. AGW: There is a film with the same basic storyline called President's Daughter, starring Katie Holmes. Do you know anything about that? Mandy: I actually read a script a long time ago and it's very different. Just in the sense that ours is the European vacation and excursion and all of this fun stuff that is happening over the summer and I think theirs is more like a dorm, collegey type environment. AGW: Have you ever met Katie? Mandy: I met her once really briefly and she's really, really sweet. But it's weird to be making two films about the same subject. But, I'm pretty sure they will be different enough. AGW: What was the hardest thing to shoot so far? Mandy: We filmed this scene where we were bungee jumping off this bridge in Austria. As much of a daredevil as I am, they wouldn't let us do it in the film. Matthew and I were totally up for doing it but they wouldn't let us for insurance purposes and all that craziness. So we had to do it with stunt doubles but there were all these tricky shots of us in front of green screen and with pads and jumping down and landing on pads. It was kind of weird and trying to have the same facial expression over and over again and keep the excitement up for two days. It made me realize, 'maybe I wouldn't want to do an action film'. This was plenty. AGW: Do you have any freedom working on your dialogue or did they make you stick to the script? Mandy: No. I've never done that for a film. It's much nicer to make the dialogue your own and make it sound authentic and honest and genuine and real. If it doesn't feel that way to you, how is it going to translate to the audience? You have to keep it within the guidelines set for you but just making it your own and having fun is important. AGW: You are you dying to work with as an actress? Mandy: I'd like to work with Denzel Washington and Julianne Moore on a film. They're my faves! AGW: When is your album of coversongs coming out? Mandy: In October. I'll hopefully tour if people like it but you never know. AGW: Who would you like to sing a duet with? Mandy: Oooooo, I'd like to sing a duet with like a Carol King or a Joni Mitchell/Carly Simon character. Something old school. Definitely a woman. AGW: So are you in the last location for this film? Mandy: This (Venice) is the last and I'm going home in a week and I'm sooo excited. I've been away from home for almost three months! AGW: What would you like to say to the fans about this film. Mandy: I hope they enjoy it. I think it's relatable to every woman out there wanting freedom and independence from life in general and wanting to taking time out to discover who you are and what you want to be and what your likes and dislikes are. That's kind of why I wanted to do this film.
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Mandy
has been all over Europe shooting her new untitled Warner Brothers film
in which she plays the rebellious daughter of the U.S. President. We caught
up with the busy star in Venice where she's about to wrap up her work
on the picture. How cool is this?!!!! The friendly actress/singer took
a break, sat down and phoned us from the set to tell us all about shooting
a film in a foreign country, her cute Brit co-star, what she misses about
the U.S. and how she feels about another kind of similar movie called
The President's Daughter starring Katie Holmes. It was late in
the evening in Venice as our conversation started: