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Mary-Kate and Ashley OlsenGrow up In the “Big Apple”by Lynn B
First we got the gossip on the twins from their New York Minute director. Dennie Gordon also directed Amanda Bynes in What a Girl Wants so she was no stranger to teen romantic adventures. Dennie had to be hired by the girls and was very impressed. “They blew me away at how smart they were, and they really grilled me”, says the blonde director. “It was a tough interview. They really wanted to know how I saw the movie. What's the movie going to look like? How's it going to be tonally? What's the style? What's the music? How's it going to feel?” Dennie told us that the girls were far from bossy on the set. The Olsens were very willing to put it all into their performances. “They had to play the drums, do all the stunts, learn to drive a car fast, learn their lines and they were going to school at the same time!” The director was also impressed with the efforts the twins made to live “normal” lives while on set. “They're text-messaging their friends, they're calling their boyfriends, thinking about next year and college. They're still little girls in so many ways despite the fact that they have all this responsibility on their shoulders”. When we spoke with the duo recently in L.A., Mary-Kate looked very “Helen of Troy” with her darker, streaked hair put up and wearing long gold, Greek-inspired dangle earrings, pink skirt and tan jacket. Blonder Ashley wore her hair down with bangs and had more of a Christina Aguilera thing going in blue cotton blouse with cutouts. The girls looked as if they had different make-up artists as well, since their huge blue eyes were adorned with different-colored eye shadow. For our interview, we asked the girls to say their names into our recorder in the hope of telling who was who but.. hey, they sound exactly alike! We did our best to remember who said what as the girls talked about their upcoming 18th birthday and future plans. AGW: We hear you are missing your prom to go to the New York opening of your film and do SNL. Are you bummed about that? Ashley: Yeah. It was actually a big decision for us – do we want to do Saturday Night Live or do we want to go to our Senior Prom and we weighed it and you don’t really get the opportunity to host Saturday Night Live during Sweeps week that often so… AGW: Are you going to poke fun at your twinness? Mary-Kate: We probably will. I mean we’re thinking of our own ideas but you don’t have a plan. I guess that’s the way it just goes until you get there and you meet with the writers. AGW: We’ve heard that you’re trying to get away from being referred as "the Olsen twins”. Ashley: To be honest, it’s not a big deal. It’s just I think we’d like to be referred to by our names. Mary-Kate: I mean if you can respect us as business women and powerful young ladies, then we just we feel like well, maybe you guys can look at us also as individuals. AGW: But here you are getting interviewed together. Ashley: Yeah, but that’s so we can split up the questions. It’s easier. AGW: What is the greatest period of time you guys have ever spent apart from one another? Mary-Kate: Three weeks I think and that was when Ashley went to camp and I went to a different camp. I went to a riding camp because I horseback ride. Ashley: Yeah, it was camp. I went to a regular camp for 2 weeks. I signed up for 3 weeks which I shouldn’t have done because I’d never been before but it wasn’t my thing. AGW: So camp wasn’t that fun but you do enjoy other kids. Ashley: Yeah. Just as much as we’ve had a working life, we’ve had a personal life and we’ve made school number one priority, so we’ve been in school our entire lives with kids our age and we’ve grown up with 4 kids in the family. AGW: What are you most looking forward to on your big 18th birthdays coming up? Mary-Kate: I think just that everything is just happening and changing. The movie comes out, we’re going to host SNL, we’re moving away, we’re moving to New York, going to school. AGW: Q: 18 is kind of the beginning of unofficial adulthood. Mary-Kate: Yes. I guess I think we kind of look at it as the second or third chapter of our lives. Ashley: But then like what comes in adulthood. A job, business? Mary-Kate: And we’ve already kind of lived that business part. After college you figure out what you’re going to do with your life. For us we already know what we want to do and we’ve already accomplished business things and what we want to do for our future. For us it’s the time to explore everything else. AGW: So what’s left for you to accomplish after college? AGW: Wow. How much more can you expand? Mary-Kate: Well, in different ways. We’ll figure that out as we go along. I mean we’re not here with a specific plan. Ashley: It’s kind of like how our whole career has been. Certain things have opened up different opportunities. Like we started the process of looking for a good script probably 2 years ago, so it just kind of all is falling into place right now. AGW: Some people are talking about you now that you are older, as being really hot. How do you feel about that? Mary-Kate: The truth is we don’t think of ourselves that way. It’s kind of what other people think of us, so the count down (to our birthday) and being America’s fantasy well, all right America, keep dreaming. Ashley: Okay, we’re wearing towels and running through New York City but it’s not us. (It’s in the movie). AGW: A lot of fans are counting down to your big birthday though. Is that kind of surreal? Ashley: I think it’s funny. Mary-Kate: We just say ‘why’? What’s going to change? How is it going to influence your life? What’s going to happen when you do turn 18? AGW: There has to be a big party though. Ashley: No we’re going to party with dinner. Like a dinner party. Our family and our friends. AGW: You both have boyfriends. How do they cope with being with such famous girlfriends? Mary-Kate: They like us for who we are. I don’t think they’d get themselves into the situation if they wouldn’t be able to handle it. AGW: Your characters in New York Minute are very different from each other. How did you decide who would play who? Ashley: Yeah. I think just reading the script we were both attracted to different characters. (Here the girls start a friendly argument about who is the more outgoing. We vote for Mary-Kate who plays Roxy, the more extroverted of the movie twins. They say they are equal). Ashley: To play the characters is fun and you find the Jane in you or the Roxy in you and you just kind of explore that. AGW: How has your relationship changed over the years? Mary-Kate: Growing up we’re always with each other. I mean if you’re with your best friend all the time, you have more secrets, you have more stories to tell. You become closer and through fighting or through getting along and every single experience that we’ve gone through it just brings us closer. AGW: You guys got to go see Classic rockers The Rolling Stones in Canada. Can you share a little about that? Mary-Kate: We were so lucky. There were like a half a million people there. Ashley: We were standing on the camera tower. The one tower that was there in front of the stage. We weren’t in the crowd of people but people were throwing water bottles. I mean it was scary but it was so good. Mary-Kate: We were filming there (in Canada) and we heard about it and Dennie heard about it and we all got tickets and we all just went. We were lucky that we were backstage some of the time and then we got to go up but there were so many people there. AGW: Does it bother you that they were old enough to be your grandfathers? Mary-Kate: No. I think a good musician is a good musician and It doesn’t matter the age. Ashley: Yeah, you can be talented and still be older. AGW: You got to do some martial arts stunts in this film Mary-Kate? Mary-Kate: Yeah. More than the stunts it was learning how to do the drumming, it was the stick fighting, the twirling of the sticks, the singing and playing at the same time which is different than just playing and driving the stick car. AGW: Ashley, do you wish you could have done that? Ashley: I had my hands full as well with speaking Chinese and with doing my 180’s and speeding off and we were both climbing out of the building and dropping and falling and I got a couple of bruises. AGW: How do you handle all the stress of running a corporation, acting, going to school? Ashley: We’ve grown up with a huge family and having the support of each other. We’ve also been able to go to school at the same time. School is our number one priority and it still is, growing up. Mary-Kate: We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, we grew up doing it. This is all we know and some people who were thrown into it don’t really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us. I know that sounds weird. AGW: Can you see a time when you’re not going to work together? Mary-Kate: Yeah. I mean we can’t only do twin movies forever and I know we both want to act and we’ll both be very supportive of each other when that time comes. Ashley: And we’ll probably always be in business with each other. If its not being twins in front of a camera, it’s producing a separate film or being a director and the other one an actress in a movie. AGW: You guys have bought a condo in New York and will be college roomies. How do you blend your styles together? The two girls in this film are sooo different. Mary-Kate: Yeah. The main areas mix between both of us and I think that our rooms are going to be pretty different. I don’t really know yet. We’re kind of in that process right now. AGW: How are your personalities different? Mary-Kate: It’s not a black or white thing. I mean we agree on a lot of things, we think differently, we feel differently, we respond to different things or we react to different things. Ashley: But we have the same ultimate goals in mind. Mary-Kate: Yeah and morals and things that we value and all that. AGW: What will you study at college? Ashley: We feel like we already know our major. We have a business and we want to keep running it. We want to act and produce but right now I think we’re taking the time to explore. We love to learn and we’re there to figure out our interests and do things that other students have done growing up like soccer, ballet or photography. We were never able to take those classes because we were never there (in regular school). |
 
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They
just got their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they are headed for
NYU this Fall but so many of us remember them as two little girls who
used to take turns playing only one on the family comedy “Full House”.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are living the American Dream; at 17, they
are billionaires producing their own videos, supervising a clothing and
make-up line, home furnishings, books, you name it. Now they produce and
star in their first big theatrical motion picture New York Minute.
There have been rumors about the girls’ weight, partying, inability
to function alone, etc. We just found them to be two level-headed young
women on a big adventure and willing to take us along. 
Ashley:
I think we’ll always create different things. We always make different
goals for ourselves. Right now I think its just getting to college and
getting through all these interviews and we know what we want. We still
want to stay in business, we want to grow our company and we want to expand
it and we want to go off and do acting.