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Just because she’s now officially lucky in love, recently engaged star Hilary Duff says she isn’t about to stop playing the girl searching for her soul mate.
In Beauty & the Briefcase, which premieres April 18 on ABC Family, Duff plays Lane Daniels, an ambitious New York fashion writer who gets a crack at the big time when she successfully pitches a cover story to Cosmopolitan. Her assignment is to go undercover in the business world — which is overrun with eligible men in suits — and find true love.
Lane is looking for the perfect man for her, someone who fulfills all 10 points on her checklist (e.g., must be spontaneous, speak with a sexy accent). But trouble brews when a good candidate arises outside the business world. And what about the guy who might be the right one, even though he’s the complete opposite of her fantasy?
Duff spoke with me about her new movie, and breaking out of the nice-girl roles she’s known for while still making time for romantic comedies.
I’m always interested when an actor plays a journalist.
You’ve been interviewed hundreds of times, so what it was like being on the other side, trying to get information for a story?
It was really fun. I have a best friend who is not a journalist but interviews people on TV for a living, so I got to talk to her a lot. A few times actually when I was on tour, they would want me to do different stuff for music channels or something. They would want me to interview someone else. I was always so nervous. It’s hard to ask people questions and kind of ask them questions they haven’t been asked a million times before. It’s definitely a hard job and it was fun for me, but the movie was about so many other things.
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