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We scored phone time with the three stars' of Disney's The Princess Diaries. Have read he book? It's about this girl who finds out she's a princess. But even royalty have BFF dilemmas and popularity probs. Bummer. We took notes.
THE PRINCESS
Sunday, 10 a.m.
OK, I can't believe Anne Hathaway's calling me from her house so early on a Sunday. Because I didn't think girls who star in princess movies do interviews this early in the morning. I mean, at least not on weekends. Don't they need their beauty rest or something? In the flick, Anne has the role of Mia Thermopolis, this regular girl who goes to private school, and her dad lays this news on her that she's total royalty because he's the prince of some European country called Genovia. So her grandmere (who has tattooed eyeliner) starts giving her princess lessons, and it all turns out to be a royal pain in the you-know-what--popularity probs and all. So, anyway, I guess Anne isn't really a princess just because she plays one in a major motion picture, but she's like a real celebrity now so I think she's really cool for setting her alarm clock and getting up just to chat with me in the a.m....
Me: Hey, thanks for calling. I suppose you've never had a real-life popularity problem.
Her: My high school didn't have a king and queen with their little clique running around making everybody else's life miserable. We just had the cool group, the group that didn't care and, in a way, the not-so-cool group. I kind of was friends with everybody, though. I never really had a popularity problem.
Me: Which group did you sit with at lunch?
Her: I was in the group that wasn't so cool but honestly did not care what anybody else thought about them.
Me: You were never made fun of ever? Like you never encountered a meanie like the one Mandy Moore plays in the movie?
Her: Well, I remember one time in seventh grade I came to school and my pants were slightly too long, so I rolled them up and I thought it looked really cool and I liked them. And this girl came up to me and said, "What are you doing?" and actually...
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