With all this hoopla over who might star in the film adaptation of Alex McAulay's Bad Girls, we decided to go straight to the source to get some hard answers. Well, by "source" we mean the book's source - Alex McAulay himself - and ya'll know how much the writers actually play in part in film production.
But he gave us some insight as to what MTV Films might be working on, so tune in ya'll.
*On Hilary Duff:*
Yes, it's true that in the novel she gets mentioned, although what actually happens is that one of the girls says of the main character, as a backhanded compliment, "She looks like Hilary Duff, but not as pretty..." I suppose in some strange way I did envision Hilary Duff in the role as I was writing it, but this was long before MTV got involved. I just thought it would be great to see Hilary play a different kind of role.
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I think she could be a huge star. I think she's actually a great actress, but a lot of her potential seems wasted. Instead of doing things like The Perfect Man (or whatever her latest film is called) she could be doing some really cool movies. She should look at Kate Winslet's career, methinks (but what do I know??) as an example of how to do really cool, unusual (yet profitable) films and still use her strengths as an actress.
I guess that's my vote--that she do slightly unconventional, more edgy things (just like Bad Girls, wink wink) | 
06-27-2005, 11:22 AM
