"It's like, Brad Pitt – what are you gonna do, if the girl you like starts dating Brad Pitt, you know, no matter how great a guy you are you're going to have a problem."Īs a result of the character's seeming desperation, Grace worked hard with director Robert Luketic to develop a sufficient backstory to fill in Pete's seemingly contradictory confidence and neuroses. He's not a weak – there's a cliché of playing this guy as very fragile or flawed, you know, and I think what's really important is that he's a victim of circumstance. "I went and spent some time in a supermarket before this, and I realized that it gives you a feel for the fact that Pete is a strong, great guy. The actor revealed he was particularly interested in making this supermarket manager as strong and appealing a character as possible while retaining those qualities that inured sympathy with the audience. "So I was sitting there and seeing myself do these quirky things that I do in life," the actress continued, suggesting that the film held more secrets about her off-screen behavior than she'd care to share, "and I don't necessarily want the whole world to see these dorky things that I do, you know? I'm watching going 'Wow, this is gonna be really, really interesting.' I really do think it's important to embrace your inner dork." Of the three leads, Grace definitely embraced his "inner dork" the strongest, but the former TV actor was quick to invest Pete with a depth greater than that of his lightning-fast punchlines. "You always know sort of what you're doing throughout filming, but you never see it put together, so when you see it put together, it's sort of like, 'hmm.' The natural beauty, true to Hollywood style, was quick to suggest that playing a nice, glamour-free, small-town girl was easier than the lip-glossed hotties she's portrayed in past roles (most notably 2002's Blue Crush): "I took a lot of particular qualities in me and basically bunched them all together and put them on screen." Bosworth also indicated that combining those traits was a bit harrowing – especially since she wasn't sure if they would jell once the film started coming together in the editing room. It was a microcosm of what it's actually like for somebody like that – Tom Cruise or whatever, I did have a sense of what it would feel like."īosworth's challenge was to make believable the prospect that Rosalee could fall for either fella. And we had footage of walking down the streets there, at a question-answer thing with all these people watching, all these things. "Because everybody knows you, you feel like you're Tad Hamilton walking down the boulevard in Disney World. You go to this thing and every single person there knows you. "Part of the reason I got this job was because was really smart in using some footage we had from what we call Super Soap weekend in Florida, where the biggest fans basically from ABC daytime would go to this big event at Disney World. Josh Duhamel's previous experience has also been confined to television roles, including stints on All My Children and the hot new series Las Vegas, but he had more in common with the star-worshipped Tad than one might expect of a rising, yet-unknown performer. What was amazing about this film was both guys are in it – how many films have both of those characters?" And I think he trusted me to play someone who the audience could. You know, it's the difference between Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. "When I met with Robert Luketic, I said, there are two guys you can play as a young actor – the guy you want to be, and the guy you are. For the 25-year-old actor, inhabiting this role was sort of like choosing between the very public personas of some of his own favorite Hollywood stars. Topher Grace makes his first bid for big-screen, leading-man success with Tad Hamilton, crowning the peak of an illustrious run (now six years running) on the successful television series That '70s Show. The three lead actors actors recently sat down with IGN for a long look at celebrity worship, love lost and found, and discovering the difference between reality and Hollywood-style fantasy. Topher Grace ( Traffic) is Pete (that's Boy #1), Rosalee's beleaguered pal, who discovers that his small-time shot at winning her heart just ran into a big stumbling block – the magnetic allure of her favorite star. Kate Bosworth ( Wonderland) is Rosalee Futch, who dreams of love and glamour with her Hollywood beau Tad Hamilton ( Josh Duhamel) far away from the podunk minutia of her rural West Virginia hometown.
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