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AGW's Lynn B interviews Michelle Trachtenberg:
We sat down to dish with Michelle in the posh Renaissance Hotel in L.A.’s Hollywood and Highland complex recently (Ryan Seacrest was doing his TRL-style show right below us). In feminine pink angora hoodie jeans and white super-high heels, this popular young woman told us about her Euro-Trip adventures, future projects, rigorous workout schedule and musical tastes all while munching on some tasty pastries. And, yes, she talks a bit about “Buffy” and the cancellation of “Angel”. Check it out…. AGW: What made you want to take on a raunchy comedy like Euro-Trip? Michelle: I was coming directly off “Buffy” and the challenging part was getting people to see that I am eighteen years old and that I am a young woman and I am maturing. So that was something to specifically focus on and I did. I had a blast making this movie and it’s really funny. AGW: Have you ever had a computer date or cyber-penpal? Michelle: No, I’ve never had a pen pal, but my friends and I do talk online all the time. I love instant messenger. It’s great it’s so quick. We email all the time but I’ve never had an Internet date. I don’t think I’ll ever partake in that. It’s scary. AGW: Have you ever gone on a European road trip? Michelle: No, not like this one. I’ve been to Europe many times. I love Paris and London and Germany. It’s just wonderful that the cultures there are so different from ours. It lets you appreciate so much more what we have here in America. But also just to diversify yourself and learn more about different people. I love London. I want to live there eventually. AGW: Prague is the new Hollywood. Did you get to see any of it while shooting there? Michelle: Yes and no, I did get to see Prague some weekends but it was mostly just shooting, shooting, shooting. During weeks of rehearsals it was a little bit easier to see around town. It’s stunning, Prague is absolutely gorgeous. AGW: We hear that you had some serious weather problems. Michelle: It was ridiculous. It was only me and it was to the point where we’d be setting up my shot and it would be nice and beautiful and sunny. They’d call ‘action’ and it would start drizzling and raining, raining, raining all throughout my close up. You think I’m exaggerating but I’m not. It would be action-cut, action-cut. Just for me, nobody else. We’d move on to Scott’s close up and it would be sun shining. It was also freezing cold. It was hailing and freezing and [I] was sweating hot but freezing cold. It was an interesting experience. AGW: What was it like running around with an all-boy cast? Michelle: It’s very interesting because even with those three boys I was the one with the most experience because I had been acting for fifteen years and I’d done many other films and I was also the youngest. I was seventeen during filming, I’m eighteen now and Scott’s twenty-two and Travis is twenty-six and Jacob is twenty –three. There was a fluctuation of ages but I was certainly the most mature. AGW: Did they treat you like one of the boys? Michelle: They gave me respect as a girl. I think it’s because I wore my stilettos to rehearsal and said that they were my casual shoes and they were like ‘whoa’. Come on now, you have to give it up for the shoes! [She casually hoists her stiletto-clad foot up above our table so I can get a good look at her killer pumps!]. AGW: Were you a tomboy at all when you were growing up? Michelle: During my Harriet the Spy years I went through a huge tomboy stage and I would only wear horizontal stripes and overalls. I’ll be scarred from horizontal stripes for the rest of my life. But there was a time of my life that I rebelled against it by making all of my jeans tighter and lower. AGW: You’re in a music video. Are you a friend of the band? Michelle: I’m a huge music fan in general and I’ve always looked forward to doing a video. Trapt is the band and the song’s called “Echo”. They called me in and said ‘Hey, we have this new video called “Echo” and we think you would be great for the girl’ and I met the whole band and I just clicked. I’m in a bikini and a little mini skirt and it was 50 F at Malibu beach. The lead singer and I are in the waves and we’re freezing cold and I totally got bronchitis. But I don’t want to be a singer. I don’t mind singing for projects that I’m doing like episodes of “Six Feet Under” where I play a pop-singer so that’s kind of fun. AGW: Who do you like to listen to? Michelle: I range. I’ll go from like Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, John Mayer, Britney, Christina to 50 Cent and Maroon 5 and Black Eyed Peas to AFI and Linkin Park and Trapt. I love 3 Days Grace; all these bands; such a great variation of music. I also have on my i-pod the soundtrack to “Moulin Rouge” and “Chicago” and “Cabaret”. I just love music…I’m no a fan of country though. AGW: What other projects do you have going? Michelle: I am in ice skating training for my next movie. I skate 5 days a week , 3 hours a day, I have ballet every other day for a couple hours and on top of that, “Six Feet Under” had me doing choreography practice 4 hours a day. It’s for Disney’s Ice Princess and I am the ice princess and it’s basically a story about a girl who has always dreamed of being a figure skater but her family is very intent on getting her into Harvard. So she devises a plan to use her knowledge of physics and talk to the three main figure skaters in her town. She’s like ‘okay I’ll teach you how to be a better figure skater through physics if you let me work with your coach, if you let me work with you choreographer’. And she trains to become a wonderful figure skater and there’s a love story involved so it’s a really sweet story. I’m doing a lot of my own figure skating. Triple axels I’m obviously not going to be required to make because that takes years of training. AGW: What are your thoughts about the end of “Buffy”. Michelle: I’m sure that in some way, shape or form “Buffy” will be continued or the story, through the fans, because we do have such devoted fans and that’s always been very sweet. The great thing about ending “Buffy” was that we chose to go out and end on a high note. “Buffy” was a wonderful experience in my career because it introduced me to a whole European fan base which I love and cherish. It was my favorite show when I was growing up and actually to be on it was quite surreal for me. I loved it and I always wanted to be a part of it. To be such a big part of it was really cool but towards the end of the show it got very creatively stifling because they didn’t expand my character to where I thought I could be. AGW: Were you surprised that they cancelled “Angel”? Wasn’t it doing better with James Marsters on it? Michelle: Yeah, I love James. He’s a sweetheart. I actually was surprised when I heard about “Angel” but I’m sure there were certain political aspects involved in that decision. When “Buffy” moved to UPN there were a lot of hurt people, not in the sense that ‘you burned us on a business deal’ but just like the WB was “Buffy’s” home for so long that I’m sure they felt a loss. But from and actress perspective, I understand when someone doesn’t want to get pegged into that role forever or when it’s time to end on a high note. You don’t want to go on for how many years. credit “Friends”. Ten years is an amazing time and they’ve constantly kept fresh but there are few people who can do that. So end on a high note and leave everyone happy. AGW: If they ever came out with a “Buffy” movie would you ever consider it? Michelle: Never say never, right now I’m much more focused on new aspects of my career and I’m not really wanting to go back and repeat characters because I think that just isn’t as exciting as doing new things. AGW: Aren’t you also in a film called Odd Girl Out? Michelle: Odd Girl Out is another independent film that I am doing with Bijou Phillips about two girls in a private school and one is the rebellious wild child and one is the perfect [creep]. I’m the perfect [creep]. I’m the queen of the private school and it’s a dark little rivalry that we have. Of course there’s much more emotional problems involved and it’s an independent movie so it’s actually a cool little fun story. AGW: Is there an actor in Hollywood that you would just love to do movies with? Michelle: Al Pacino I think is just brilliant, or Dustin Hoffman or Robert DeNiro that would be my dream team of actors to work with. Crush-wise, Orlando Bloom, you could throw in a little Colin Farrell in there and Johnny Depp. AGW: You could be in the next “Pirates” movie. Michelle: [all excited] I wish, are you kidding! I could totally be Keira Knightly’s long lost sister which people say we look alike but I don’t see it. AGW: You were named one of the top twenty teens who will change the world. How cool is that? Michelle: It’s a huge compliment. I’m very much a supporter of charities that tell kids that it’s not important to do drugs to be successful. I’m very much against under age drinking and drugs of any sort and drinking and driving. I have never done any drugs whatsoever in my life and I don’t plan to. It’s not something that you need.
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Hey,
she’s been acting all her life. It doesn’t seem that long
ago that cutie Michelle Trachtenberg was in grade school snooping around
as Harriet the Spy. Then, the actress popped up as “Buffy’s”
weird little sis but, have you seen her lately? Little Michelle has turned
into a major hottie and she’s anxious to show the world that she’s
a young woman now at age 18 starring in the hot teen comedy Euro-Trip.
(Note: We’re including this interview with Michelle due to the huge
“tween” interest in her. Tweens and parents should note that
Euro-Trip is rated “R” for good reason.) In “Trip”,
she is off to Europe with a group of pals who hope to hook a friend up
with his computer penpal.