INTERVIEW WITH JASON RITTER:
Can you talk about working on “Raise Your Voice”* with Hilary Duff?
Yeah, we finished filming that. I play her ill-fated older brother.
What happens that makes you 'ill-fated?'
I die, but early on. I’m not ruining anything.
So that means you’re not in the movie for very long? Your fans will be disappointed.
No, well, not really. But it’s an important character.
What was it like on the set with Hilary Duff?
She is so mean. No, she’s amazing. She’s like one of the sweetest people I’ve ever encountered. She is so nice and sweet. You almost think when you see her do talk shows that it’s an act, but she really is just that sweet.
And you also have another film coming up that involves 10 separate stories?
That one is called “Happy Endings.” My storyline is I’m a guy who is a drummer in a band and I’m not very good. But I’m rich so all the people in the band stay in it because my dad buys us all new equipment. And I end up having a relationship with this girl and she starts sleeping with my father, and I can’t handle it. Tom Arnold plays my father and the girl is Maggie Gyllenhaal. It’s a cool movie. Lisa Kudrow is in it and Steve Coogan. It’s really great. It’s an indie film from Lions Gate.
What else do you have coming up?
I just finished a movie in Tennessee called “Our Very Own.” It’s about five kids growing up in the small town in Tennessee in the 70s and all of their dreams and their problems.
* "Raise Your Voice" will be released in late 2004
ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS FROM THE WORLD PREMIERE OF "A CINDERELLA STORY:"
Hilary Duff & Jennifer Coolidge / Director Mark Rosman & Producer Clifford Werber / Madeline Zima & Simon Helburg / Brad Bufanda & Kady Cole
Special Premiere Guests: Brie Larson / Courtney & Ashley Peldon
