Duff enuff? Hilary is the princess of all media.

[MickBeth]

Hilary Duff talks fast. Real fast. Like a teenager who has had too little sleep and too much Red Bull.
She's 16 and soooo busy. Her latest movie, "The Cinderella Story," opened two weeks ago, pulling in nearly $30 million through last weekend. The soundtrack CD, with four new Duff songs, debuted in Billboard's top 10. She just launched her first arena tour as a headliner -- coming to a nearly sold-out Target Center on Sunday -- and she's trying to finish her second album, due on her birthday, Sept. 28.

Her 2003 CD "Metamorphosis" has sold more than 3 million copies and yielded two top-10 hits. Since January, Target stores have sold her Stuff by Duff line of clothes, cosmetics and home furnishings. A concert DVD will arrive next month. And the former star of Disney Channel's "Lizzie McGuire" has two movies in the can.

Soooo busy. But the 'tween queen phoned us last week from a bus headed to Philadelphia, the day after her 36-concert tour opened. Despite occasional interruptions by managers asking her questions, Duff never lost the thread of our conversation.

Q How did it go last night?

A It was awesome. After those couple of radio [sponsored] shows I did, I wasn't nervous anymore. I was so pumped to be out there with the audience and everything. It was a sold-out show, and the people went crazy, and I was just so happy to be back onstage again.

Q What can we expect from your show?

A I'm doing most of the songs from my album "Metamorphosis." And I'm doing five songs from the new album that comes out on my birthday. They're pretty much all fast songs. I didn't have any slow songs that I play on this tour.

Q Artists usually tour when a new album is available in stores. Why are you touring before your album is out?

A I think a lot of it was a time issue. Since I sing and I act, to make the schedule work, we decided to do another tour for "Metamorphosis." When I did those shows, it wasn't like a real tour; I did a couple of radio shows, and I did a couple of shows myself, but they were very small venues.

Q So this is the Delayed Metamorphosis Tour?

A Yeah, I think so. And it's promoting my new album.

Q Does it have a title yet?

A Not yet -- and I have to figure it out today. I'm like, "Ohmigod, what am I going to do?"

QWhat are the candi- dates?

A I'm not sure. One was "Time to Fly" but I don't think I'm going to be calling it that. I'm going to have to wrack my brain today.

Q Tell me about the album.

A I haven't even completed it yet. We've been so busy. I was in Canada for, like, 2½ months working on a movie. And I came to L.A. and recorded every single night and rehearsed every single day. Then we went to New York for a week [to promote the movie]. And now we're doing this. I think I've done about eight songs, and I've got about six or seven more to go.

I got to work with some of the same people [as last time], but I got to write with them. The music is so cool. A lot of it is very trippy and in the pocket. It's more rock than my last album and definitely a little bit more mature.

Q Does that mean that you're trying to move beyond the 'tween audience?

A Not really. I don't think that's, like, a goal. I think I'm growing up a little bit. It's not a race to get out of that. I think that's a big part of my fan base. Hopefully they'll grow with me. I don't think anything I talk about on the album is abandoning them. They can still listen to it. But I think it's definitely a little older.

Q What's your reaction to how "Cinderella Story" did at the box office and what the critics said about it?

A I know that the critics didn't love it. I pretty much got good reviews; it was the script that they didn't mostly like. That's fine with me. Everyone can have their own opinion. I think I have a great fan base. I'm not sure what the opening [box-office] numbers were; I don't want to know. I never want to know that stuff.

Q The movie talks about a little girl's dream. What was your dream as a little girl, and what is your dream now?

A When I was a little girl, I never thought this would be my job, that I would get to travel the world, go on tour and make movies. I was really like a tomboy. I had a great childhood, really normal up until I was like about 8. I played outside all the time; I didn't really get into movies and music until my sister [Haylie, who is two years older] and I moved back to Houston and we started getting involved in school plays and stuff like that.

I just had this crazy drive to work. I started doing commercials and modeling. That was pretty much all you could do in Texas. I was begging to come out to California and try this out.

After a while, it was never, like, "I want to be famous." It was, like, "I want to work." That's still pretty much my goal.

Q What's the hardest thing about being Hilary Duff?

A Not being able to go outside or go shopping or sleep in my own bed at night -- and not being able to have any time for myself.

Q Speaking of shopping, how much input did you have into the Stuff by Duff at Target?

A I got to have a lot. I decided to make it for younger kids. I remember when I was younger how much I wanted to dress like my sister, and they didn't have clothes that would fit younger kids. I decided that I wanted to make it really cool, really affordable, really colorful and not necessarily revealing for kids. Of course, I had people helping me every single day, but I get to approve everything. Now it's just getting bigger and bigger.

Q Some cynical parents say that Hilary Duff exists just to sell products, not to create entertainment for kids. How do you react to that?

A I don't really care what they say. To be honest, it makes me mad that people can't just let people do their thing. I would like to see how those people live their lives, and I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't agree with that either. I'm doing my thing. I'm having a really good time. I think I'm doing it pretty successfully. I'm very lucky, and I'm very blessed. I have a great team around me that helps me do great things every single day. And I have a wonderful fan base. And I work my butt off.

Q Why are you so popular?

A It's hard to talk about yourself like that. I put myself out there and try to let people see the real me. I don't necessarily hide that much from people. I think they know a lot about me and my life.

Q Have you thought about going to college?

A Definitely. I know what I'm doing now probably won't last forever. I'm going to work for it to last forever, but I want to have something to fall back on, and I want to be a smart, educated person. College is something I want to do down the road. I passed my high-school diploma test a couple of months ago. It kind of takes some of the stress off right now while I'm working so much. It's funny now that I don't have anybody telling me what to do -- like pushing school on me -- I want to learn more. I always go to the bookstore and buy stuff and want to read it. So maybe I could do online community college classes while I travel.

Q Speaking of stress, compare making movies and being in the music business.

A It's a different kind, but there's always stress involved. I never have five minutes. If I'm not on set, shooting a scene, I'm either in hair or makeup changing my clothes or doing a phone interview real fast or having a meeting or working on lines. Being on tour, I'll be doing meet-and-greets [with fans] or doing radio interviews or going here. It's a different kind of busy. It's all a lot of fun. But after a while it starts to get pretty stressful. I've stopped asking; I just show up, and they tell me what to do -- and I do it.

Q Talk about the two movies you have coming up.

A "Raise Your Voice" is with Rita Wilson and Rebecca De Mornay and David Keith. I love the story; it's definitely more dramatic. It's kind of like a girl trying to find herself and she deals with a lot of stuff like her brother dying and it's her fault. It shows how she overcomes it, and she follows her dream and puts herself back together. "The Perfect Man" is a drama, and it's also very funny. It's a tearjerker with Heather Locklear and Christopher Noth. I loved working on that. A really cute script.

Q Why did you leave "Lizzie McGuire"?

A It's funny because the way it came out in the press was me leaving Disney because I wanted more money. That's not how it happened at all. All Disney Channel [contracts] are for 65 episodes at a time. We finished 65 episodes in two years, which is crazy. I was working in every single scene every single day; we worked straight through without any hiatuses. Even though I loved working on it, after a while it gets kind of tiring. The only thing I decided not to do was make a sequel to "The Lizzie McGuire Movie." It was just time to move on.

Q What's up with you and Avril Lavigne and you and Lindsay Lohan -- your supposed rivals in music and film, respectively?

A I don't know. I've never met Avril Lavigne. I think her music is awesome. I have no problem with her. And Lindsay Lohan just seems to say stuff about me all the time. I've never really said anything about it. If she thinks there's a problem, you should really ask her. I don't really know her either.

Q Maybe they talk about you because of your goody-goody image.

A Just because I don't go out and party like they do, or I don't know everybody in Hollywood, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't judge my personality because I don't do the same stuff they do.

Q Tell me the last thing you did that shows that you are not such a goody-goody.

A I'm not sure. I think I am a goody-goody. I'm a really good girl. I don't have time to get in trouble. I work really hard. I take my job really seriously. I think I'm really smart about things. I don't think I have to prove to anybody that I am a risk taker or a bad girl.

Hilary Duff

Opening: Haylie Duff.

When: 6 p.m. Sun.

Where: Target Center, 600 1st Av. N., Mpls.

Tickets: limited availability, $37 and $45, 651-989-5151.


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thanks again - there was a lot of stuff i didnt know in that one, usually her interviews are pretty much the same

Thanks for that, she's a busy girl!

[i_survived_disturbia]

Thanks for the article, it was great! I knew pretty much everything she talked about in the movie. I thought that in "Raise Your Voice", her brother died, not that he is dying. She is really busy!

Ya, I dont know jack about "Raise your voice" anyone know anything about it?

she sure is a busy girl or young women

Ya I guess we should say "young woman" but eh, w/e.

Originally posted by horse_lover_girl15:
Thanks for the article, it was great! I knew pretty much everything she talked about in the movie. I thought that in "Raise Your Voice", her brother died, not that he is dying. She is really busy!

her brother died,but she says it differently
" deals with a lot of stuff like her brother dying" she means that she has to deal with him dead.

yea i guess u would if he is dead u would well u dont really have to but i think u would

Ya, I dont know why this movie is more "serious" with the death and stuff.

i dont know i really havent seen any previews or summaries about the storyline of the movie

Neither have I really.

does anyone have or have the plot or summary of the movie or atleast tell us a little about the movie?