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NICK CANNON:
“What really attracted me to this role I would honestly say, is I loved Can’t Buy Me Love. When I was seven years old that film was the film to see. And then, the fact that I got to play two characters in one role – the geek and the cool guy. In Drumline people were like, ‘He was good in that, but it seemed like he was being himself.’ So I wanted to show people that, one, I wasn’t like the character in Drumline, and two, I’m not like this character either. But with this you can see the difference and the range.”
CHRISTINA MILIAN on whether she thinks this movie improves on Can’t Buy Me Love:
“I think it does. I’m happy they didn’t go with the exact story of Can’t Buy Me Love. I loved that movie, it was cute, kids can relate to it. But I think there’s a little more depth to our film as far as Paris learning about herself. It’s really the relationship between Alvin and Paris and what happens with them.”
STEVE HARVEY (Clarence Johnson):
“I didn’t have to read for this part [as Alvin’s dad], but scheduling-wise I couldn’t do it because I don’t get off the air [with my radio show] until 10 a.m., and they were on the set at 5:30 a.m. But they waited every day – I showed up on the set at 11 a.m. and would shoot until about midnight, then get up at 3 a.m. so that I could go on the air at 4 a.m. It was a pretty tough three-week period for me. So we designed a character that could wear a hat, and I let him be a little scruffed up, so I didn’t have to waste time with make-up and hair.”
CANNON:
“The chemistry between Christina and I played really well, because we knew each other before the film started. Christina started on the Disney Channel, I started on Nickelodeon, she was involved in music, I was involved in music – a lot of similarities allowed us to become friends in the beginning, and when we started working on this film, I got to know her even better.”
MILIAN:
“I wasn’t as popular in school as my character Paris is. I was kind of more to myself. Paris only hangs out with the popular people, but throughout the movie she comes to learn about herself and love herself, and know that’s not who she really is.”
HARVEY:
“In movies you’ve got these writers who are standing there, who have put their heart and soul into the business of writing, and they want you to say their words. So what I ended up doing is, I’d do a take the way it is in the script; then they let me do my take. And according to the movie that I’ve been seeing, they kept my takes mostly.”
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