'House Bunny': Girl Talk with Anna Faris, Rumer Willis, Katharine McPhee and Emma Stone
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Rumer Willis
Character: Joanne
Major Malfunction: Keeps a back brace as a security blanket.
On embracing her nerdiness:
“I was a dork. I was a computer nerd. I grew up and, Emma [Stone] went through the same thing, we both had braces and glasses and this curly fro. And I wasn’t necessarily too active in getting in the social crowd, so I definitely understand the entirely not fitting in. But I think everyone has their own version of feeling a bit out of place and one of the great things I think that we have the ability to do is show that it’s alright. You can have that awkward phase. It’s not about whether you’re the popular girl or the nerdy one. It’s just about feeling confident and comfortable with kind of where you fit and who you are and accessing that and making that your own.”
On her “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” moment:
“I have a lot of respect for those girls in high school who have to wear them. Especially the ones who got magnets stuck to them or braces. But, it’s a different thing when you have to have another prop on you as well. And a lot of the time, I would always see Katherine lounging about…and I always seemed to be on a stool sitting perfectly straight, but I actually couldn’t get up one time. I felt like a turtle. I was lying on my back when we were outside on a blanket. And our director Fred came over and we were talking and I tried to get up and I couldn’t. And he asked me if I was kidding and I was like ‘No, I really can’t get up!’”
On breaking the Hollywood hottie mold:
“I think one of the things I’m most excited about [with this movie], especially just growing up in Hollywood and having two younger sisters there, is so much pressure I think from everywhere to look a certain way and dress a certain way. I definitely know I don’t entirely fit the convention and to be able to be a part of something that could hopefully allow young girls to go and watch this and feel confident about themselves and go, ‘Okay, well that girl isn’t entirely the ideal or what the perfect picture is supposed to be and she feels confident and beautiful than I can too.’”
On the bloggers who love to pick her apart:
“Everybody has an opinion and we live in America so you’re allowed to. The thing about it is, the media is an interesting outlet, because it allows people to see who they think you are. An idea of you, but it might not be who you really are. As long as you are comfortable with who you know you really and true to be and your friends and the people around you, you know that and who you really are - that’s all that really matters.”
Next: Katharine McPhee