- I had done the tour, I had done the album,
the tour, the album, the tour, you know?
And it was like, I wanted a little bit of a change.
When I was younger, I'd had
my three best friends, 'til this day,
I still have my Courtney Janson and Laura Lynn.
And I just
I don't know, the whole concept came up
of me being with my girlfriends
and us growing up with each other and I just
I wanted to do a teen movie,
but I wanted to do something that
teenagers could watch and be touched by.
You know?
And all of them have their own little issues but
at the same time, they have each other.
And at the end of the day,
that's what matters.
We all have our problems,
but if we have our friends there
we can talk to them about
you know, that makes you feel safe.
And that was the whole idea behind the movie.
- [Interviewer] Yourself, picking up on your character
first of all,
extremely strong in terms of
she's the bond that keeps
- Yeah - keeps these girls together.
How much of, obviously, now
your involvement in the film from the start.
How much of that was to a certain extent,
a reflection on who you are,
and exactly
- Well the fact that Lucy
she wanted to get away from her small town and
her excuse at the time was to go see her mother.
But in her heart, she knew she was on her way
to be in the contest.
And I think I can kinda relate to that
to a certain extent.
With me going off and leaving my small town.
But other than that,
the character is totally different from me.
Definitely.
Lucy is very,
I think that was probably me four years ago.
Not now, you know?
But Lucy is very naive and
very shy, she's to herself a lot and
so, but the thing that I really liked about Lucy
is that she was very strong.
And I really liked that.
- [Interviewer] Having watched the film
and spoken afterwards, it lends to
people watching the film who are like 15 to 25,
the general consensus that we've spoken to people
is that girls seem to bond a lot stronger.
And a lot younger age than guys at that particular age.
- That's so true.
I totally agree, I remember when I was like 12 and 13.
My girlfriends, we had our backs,
we were very very close.
I don't know if that's a southern thing
or if it's just a nationwide thing
like how it is, you know?
And I think it's cool because
when you make bonds like that,
a lot of times at that young of age,
you do continue to keep that
as you get older.
Still, to this day, when I go home
and I see my cousin Larlynn
we start off just where we left off, you know?
It's just like, hey, what's up?
You know?
And that's a cool feeling to know that you have that.
- [Interviewer] But the flip side of that as well,
and we see this in the movie
between the three of you is
girls can be extremely more envious of each other
in a quicker period.
They kind of fall out with each other and can
say things that is a little bit more pressure
between
- You know it's funny you say that because
when those kind of issues started happening in school,
I just left.
At the age where you're like,
that's my boyfriend!
I left school and I started to do my thing
my singing thing, so
and I remember my girlfriends calling me up saying,
why did this person do that?
Or, listen what happened!
And I'm like, whoa!
What's going on?
It's just that stage you go through
where you're wanting to look pretty
and you're catching guys' attention
and there is, there's that little jealousy thing
going on.
But luckily, I never really experienced that.
- [Interviewer] I mean aside from the experience
of what you're putting on screen,
can you describe to us first day on set
exactly what was going through your head
- What what now?
- [Interviewer] Your first day on set.
- I was so nervous, the first day.
Oh my gosh was I nervous!
'Cause it's so weird, 'cause when I'm on stage
and I'm performing, I feel so comfortable but
that was just a territory that I was new at.
I didn't know what the hell I was doin'.
But once I got on the set and
you're in your clothes, you're in character,
all your surroundings are really getting you
into character.
And it just fell into place.
So, and I had, the team of people that
were working with me were amazing.
Tamra the director,
and the cast that was with me, Taryn and Zoe
the girls, and we just
we hit it off, it was cool.
- [Interviewer] Picking up on Tamra first,
obviously she's had experience before.
Obviously you've been very close to the project.
How much, in terms of support, was she
in terms of exactly how she felt the characters
should be played
in terms of what you should be giving,
how you should look?
- Well of course there was,
she definitely had her opinions on things,
and if I had a question she was really open to tell me,
if I had a question I would tell her.
Lines of communication were open all the time.
And I had two weeks before the thing even started
for me to just to really get a general idea
of the character and
so that was cool, that felt really really good.
I think that helped me a lot for the movie.
- [Interviewer] Obviously meeting the girls
Zoe and Taryn
obviously you'd met beforehand.
But once the cameras are on,
the lights are on, did your relationship
grow with them day by day as filming
continued, were they extremely aware
of the background that you were coming from?
Obviously everyone knows who you are but
were they supportive of your move
and also, extremely helpful in terms of
- Oh, definitely!
Throughout the whole thing,
they'd give me their advice on things and
or they'd say, that was a good scene, Britney
'cause I'm new at this and I'd want to know.
And, or if something happened with them,
I'd be like, ah that was really real, you know?
Like, we were totally there for each other.
Yeah.
- [Interviewer] In terms of
the actual development of the film,
you said you kind of developed the project
from day one and kind of
as the film was being shot were you also
aware of exactly how the film was developing,
in terms of, obviously not in the production role,
but were you sort of realizing exactly what you
originally thought every day,
once you saw the rushes and once you saw
- Was I aware of when it was coming together?
- Yeah
- Oh my gosh, that was one of the coolest things
in the world.
You have this idea and then all of a sudden
you see it on the big screen and are like,
I did that, man, that's cool, you know?
That's like the best feeling in the world,
that's probably why this is one of the things
I'm most proud of that I've done
because it's just,
it's my little project.