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A gender-bender for teenagers
Television star Amanda Bynes plays the 'Man' in new comedy
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2006-04-02
At the age of 19, Amanda Bynes has credits many young actresses would envy: joining the Nickelodeon All That ensemble by 10, fronting her own variety show at 12 titled The Amanda Show, and, more recently, co-starring in the WB sitcom What I Like About You with Jennie Garth.
And now she's starring in Andy Fickman's She's the Man, a new comedy feature inspired by William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. For the updated gender-bending story, Bynes plays Viola, a soccer star whose all-girl team is dropped at Cornwall Prep. When she's refused a position on the boys' squad, she decides to pose temporarily as her twin brother, Sebastian, at his new boarding school, Illyria Prep, for a chance to keep playing the game she loves. Viola struggles with a masculine persona and somehow gets caught in a love triangle between Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum) and Olivia (Laura Ramsey), while fretting over how to shower in Illyria's open-space stalls.
Tandem talked to Amanda Bynes about She's the Man.
How comfortable were you as a guy?
"Not bad. I was very involved in the styling of him because they wanted to know how I felt as a guy, how I would've done it. I was involved in making the right choices. But everyone wanted me to look as cute as possible, but there were so many things going against me. But it was fun. It was a great experience."
What was your first impression when you first saw yourself in the mirror dressed in drag?
"I went, 'wow, I'm kind of a weird-looking dude, real creepy dude.' And I thought I wasn't doing so bad as a girl, because no matter how I look as a girl it will always be better than how I look as a dude. Honestly."
What about soccer?
"I wasn't that comfortable with it at the beginning, but I got more comfortable the more I did it. I hadn't played soccer before doing this movie so it's something that I learned so now I feel that it's something that I feel semi-comfortable with. The guys we were playing with were amazing. We had a lot of fun."
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