Moore Moore
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 Mandy Moore sheds her goody-two shoesSinger/actress Mandy Moore is trying to shed her good-girl image. After a bit of prompting, she reluctantly reveals one of the ways she's going about this task.
"I'll put my ugly foot up on the table and show you," she tells Zap2it.com, unveiling the second toe on her right foot. "Look, here it is, a tiny tattoo on my toe. My family doesn't know yet, my boyfriend doesn't know."
Her boyfriend's tennis superstar Andy Roddick. Moore has yet to tell her sweetie that she went out with new friend Jack Osbourne (yes, that Jack Osbourne) to a Sunset Strip tattoo parlor and asked for a heart tattoo.
"I feel like such a goody-goody, and so I finally said, 'Let's do it.' I'm a big wimp when it comes to pain, but it took 30 seconds and it didn't hurt," Moore says. "That's about the extent of my rebellion."
The pop singer who grew up going to a Catholic school in Orlando, Fla., is playing the rebellious teen daughter of the president of the United States in her new film "Chasing Liberty." She gets to run away from home to join in the Berlin Love Parade, skinny dip in a river in Prague and bungee jump from a bridge. In real life, the 19-year-old actress wouldn't do any of those things.
"Well, I did want to bungee jump, but they wouldn't let me, all that insurance and stuff," says the actress. "I've been sky-diving twice, though."
Going to the Love Parade also isn't her style. "All the costumes, clubby music, is not up my alley, it's not Andy's scene either," she says.
In fact, she had to ask director Andy Cadiff to have the extras lay off her during a scene where she's pushing through the crowd after getting roughed up.
"I was running through and getting the coldest stares, and some people wouldn't move. I had to wrestle the crowd, they were tormenting me, and I got bruises," she says.
 Moore was a trouper though, much to the surprise of her romantic co-star, 25-year-old British actor Matthew Goode, who says, "Mandy is not big in the UK, but I wondered if she would be a bit of a diva bitch. In fact, she is exactly what she is on TV, a home girl." In "Chasing Liberty," she is running away from her over-protective father (Mark Harmon), and she is closely watched by two Secret Service agents (Annabella Sciorra, Jeremy Piven) who have their own romance with which to contend. Piven says he's impressed with Moore's acting chops.
"She is not like any other 19-year-old I've ever met. She's a totally genuine cool girl who wants to learn and work hard," he says.
Moore has had her share of film roles, appearing in "How to Deal," "A Walk to Remember," "The Princess Diaries" and as the voice of a bear cub in "Doctor Dolittle 2," but this is her first time being showcased as a mature young woman.
Unlike her movie role, Moore doesn't feel like she lives in a bubble. She doesn't have bodyguards, and it's only recently that she has photographers following her through the bushes taking pictures, since her relationship with the tennis star has blossomed. She's aware that she's a role model for young girls.
"I think about the sense of responsibility I have to fans and I'm completely flattered and honored that anyone would think of me as a role model, especially since I'm being myself," Moore says.
Although someday she wants to learn how to fly an airplane, and hopes to be brave enough to "cuss someone out" at some point or other, that's the extent of her rebellion. She wouldn't cut loose like President George Bush's daughters, for example.
"I was offered a pretty cool project where there was a lot of drugs and alcohol involved, but I was frightened as Mandy to go there, it creeped me out."
One thing she is sure she'll never do on camera is a nude scene. She personally picked the body double to play her when she's skinny dipping, but she won't do it herself.
"That stuff should only exist behind closed doors."
By Mike Szymanski, Zap2it.com
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